Physics Curriculum as a (free!) Playslist: The Virgina Physics Flexbook

David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3627–3629

This session will focus on showcasing the Virginia Physics Flexbook. The quick response, development and launch of the flexbook will be explained. The Virginia Physics Flexbook will be shown and many of the features explored and explained.

Commentary: Response of SITE to “An Interview With Joseph South” Regarding the Preparation of Educators to Evaluate the Efficacy of Educational Technology

David Slykhuis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2017) p. 24

Commentary: Response of SITE to “An Interview With Joseph South” Regarding the Preparation of Educators to Evaluate the Efficacy of Educational Technology

iMovie as Vehicle for Self-Reflection of Teaching Practices

David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3495–3497

Pre-service teachers are often asked to video-tape themselves teaching a lesson and to write a reflection about this lesson. This session will illustrate how to transform this traditional practice through the use of digital video and iMovie. This...

Using Lego to Increase Science Learning in Middle School

David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4774–4783

This presentation outlines how Lego/Robotics are used to promote science learning in middle school students. Previously, these types of laboratory materials have been shown to increase inquiry and promote interest in science in an ESL classroom ...

Have an iPod? Then you need to know this about how to use it in your classroom.

David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2416–2417

Anyone who has been on a college campus lately knows that it takes two pieces of technology to be an 'in' college student; a cell phone and an iPod. While the iPod is a ubiquitous accessory, are there educationally uses for the iPod in K-16...

Topics: Classrooms

Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?

David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2014, No. 1 (Mar 19, 2014)

Newspapers maybe dying, but the need for information is growing. Who needs information and who is giving the information? What information is needed? Where is the information being transmitted? When are we going change our framework from newspapers? ...

Teaching Science with Technology: A decade of research

David Slykhuis; Rebecca Krall

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 4142–4151

In this review of recent literature on the use of technology to teach science content, 143 articles from 8 science education journals were selected and analyzed for the use of technologies in teaching science, pedagogies employed, and successes of...

Building a Community of New and Pre-Service Teachers the Wiki Way

Barbara Stern; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3587–3589

This presentation will follow up on the beginning of our work that was presented at the SITE Conference 2006. At the conference we presented on the possibility and allure of using a Wiki community to house and organize lesson plans created by our...

Correlates of Achievement with Online and Classroom-based Microcomputer-Based Laboratory Physics Activities

David Slykhuis; John Park

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3745–3749

Students from five high schools participated in a two to four week microcomputer based laboratory (MBL) physics curriculum in two groups. One group completed the curriculum entirely online, and the other completed the same curriculum in a...

Topics: Computers, Mathematics, Curriculum, Students

Results from implementation of the Trans-Media book iMAGiNETICspace

David Slykhuis; Troy Cline

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4600–4606

iMAGiNETICspace- is a Trans-Media book written in conjunction with NASA about the upcoming Magnetospheric Mulitscale Mission. The book was implemented with almost 300 8th grade students. STEM aptitudes scores and science content knowledge was pre- ...

Whither our Wiki?

David Slykhuis; Barbara Stern

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4774–4773

At the 2007 conference we presented on how the Wiki that we designed for our pre-service teacher education candidates had grown and was being used by our student teachers and recent graduates. This year's presentation will focus on the growth, death ...

Comparing Technology Integration Across Two Different Professional Development Models

David Slykhuis; Judy Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3848–3850

Over the past two summers a variety of technologies have been purchased through grant funding for local science and math classrooms. The technologies included hand-held GPS units, Lego MindStorm robotics kits, Vernier LabQuests with Probeware and...

Correlates of Achievement with Online and Classroom-based MBL Physics Activities

David Slykhuis; John Park

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2006) pp. 147–163

Students from five high schools participated in a two to four week microcomputer based laboratory (MBL) physics curriculum in two groups. One group completed the curriculum entirely online, and the other completed the same curriculum in a...

Topics: online learning, research, on-line, web-based learning, web-based, Science, Science, Constructivism, Web-based Instruction, Science Education, Internet, online education, Research Methods, online teaching, web design

What Are You Looking At? An Investigation Into the Relationship of Text, Graphics, and Audio of a PowerPoint Presentation, Student Eye Movements and Science Learning

Leonard Annetta; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3620–3623

The purpose of this study was to use eye-tracking technology to explore the relationship of text and graphic combinations displayed in a PowerPoint presentation. The effect of an audio narration was also explored. A taxonomy of graphic/text...

Topics: Students, Graphics

Building the Educational Media Exchange (EMX) – A Pilot Study of the Use of a Contextualized Content Assets Hub in Support of Teacher Preparation and In-Service Instruction

Richard Ingram; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1262–1266

The use of digital educational media in higher education and K-12 is increasing, fueled by advances in media creation tools, changes in policy, the emergence of new models for media creation and copyright, and the increased technical sophistication...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Information Literacy Education (Library & Media)

The efficacy of World Wide Web-mediated microcomputer-based laboratory activities in the high school physics classroom

David A. Slykhuis

The efficacy of World@Wide@Web@-mediated microcomputer-based laboratory activities in the high school physics classroom (2004) pp. 1–211

This research project examined the efficacy of an online microcomputer-based laboratory based (MBL) physics unit. One hundred and fifty physics students from five high schools in North Carolina were divided into online and classroom groups. The...

The Efficacy of Online MBL Activities

David Slykhuis; John C. Park

Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 5, No. 1 pp. 14–31

The focus of this study was twofold: one, to determine if students could increase their physics content knowledge through the completion of an online hands-on Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) unit on motion; and two to determine if the...

Researching Student Use of School Science Images

John C. Park; David Slykhuis; Sharon Dotger

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4724–4730

Science teacher uses of images have been documented in the education literature for the past 110 years. Practitioners have used images via student drawings, photographs, projected images, images in microscopes and telescopes, textbook images, and...

Topics: Science, Students, Computer Sciences, Computers

Guest Editorial: Technology Proficiencies in Science Teacher Education

John C. Park; David A. Slykhuis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2006) pp. 218–229

The mission of the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) is to promote leadership in and support for those involved in the professional development of teachers of science. The organization originated in the late 1920s through visits and...

Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Science

Augmented Education: How can augmented reality be incorporated into pre-service teacher education to help K-12 students?

Rich Clemens; Steve Purcell; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1499–1502

This roundtable is to foster discussions on the affordances of augmented reality in education. As augmented reality has become more common place with the wide spread proliferation of hand held device equipped with cameras, GPS location,...

Profile of an Innovator: A Delphi Study to Surface Key Characteristics for Innovative Educators

Mark Hofer; Kelly Leffel; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1298–1303

As the context of K-12 education changes, as new technologies emerge, and as we increasingly focus on student-centered learning, there is need to understand how best to catalyze and lead innovation in schools. If we can identify the key...

Topics: Creativity, Design Thinking & Innovation

Implementing Augmented Reality in K-12 Education – Analyzing Current trends

Richard Clemens; Steven Purcell; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1960–1967

The use of emerging technologies in K-12 education includes the category of augmented reality applications (AR) for learning. This paper focuses on the trends of AR in recent scholarly works involving the implementation of AR in K-12 classrooms....

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Visual Representations of Periodic Motion

Nigel Standish; Peter Malcolm; Glen Bull; David Slykhuis; Eric Bredder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3061–3065

Using TPACK as a model for preservice teacher education, we have developed two in class activities for undergraduates that display periodic motion. First the use of paint flowing from a bucket that is suspended above craft paper as a pendulum. When...

Enabling Technology Use for Teacher Education

David Slykhuis; Rich Clemens; Steve Purcell; Eric Carbaugh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2493–2494

Faculty should be encouraged to incorporate technology into preservice classes. Many classes, except the educational technology class, are not taught in classrooms well equipped to handle this challenge. A ‘typical’ classroom has nice technology for ...

Topics: Information Technology Education, Technology Leadership, Information Literacy Education (Library & Media)

Promoting Change with Technology in Teacher Education: Methodological Decisions for Using a Highly-Collaborative, Multimethod Research Approach

Denise Crawford; Teresa Foulger; Kevin Graziana; David Slykhuis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2019) pp. 240–255

This article highlights the highly collaborative, multimethod research approach used to develop the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs): a specific list of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, developed with input from many teacher...

Science Education in the Digital Age: Theoretical and Practical Suggestions

David Slykhuis; Sumreen Asim; Joshua Ellis; Jason Trumble

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 1785–1791

Strategies for K-12 Science Education in the Digital Age presents theory-informed practices for science teachers that increase their instructional effectiveness in teaching digital age learners. We will communicate how to increase science educators’ ...

Topics: Science Education, Computational Thinking, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)

National Technology Leadership Coalition TPACK Initiative: Illustrating TPACK through Video-based Teaching Cases

Mike Searson; David Slykhuis; John Lee; Mark Hofer; Glen Bull

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) p. 5095

SITE is collaborating with peer associations in the National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC) to develop video-based teaching cases illustrating effective use of TPACK. Participating associations developing pilot teaching cases include the...

Science Gains in an Engineering Unit using Digital Fabrication

Nigel Standish; David Slykhuis; Glen Bull; James Rutter

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1516–1522

The Laboratory School for Advanced Manufacturing was established as a bricks-and-mortar test bed by the University of Virginia in collaboration with the Albemarle and Charlottesville school systems to identify effective ways of connecting...

Topics: Engineering Education

Constructing Evaluation Tools to Assess Earth Science Concepts Using Web-Based VR Panoramas and Contour Maps

David Slykhuis; Lynnae Flynn; Rachel McBroom; John Park

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3054–3057

An assessment tool that uses VR Panoramas was developed to study middle school student acquisition of concepts regarding three-dimensional surface mapping of the earth. Students were required to find their location on a contour map by...

Topics: Software, Students, Middle School Education

Building Model NASA Satellites: Elementary Students Studying Science Using a NASA-themed Transmedia Book Featuring Digital Fabrication Activities

Daniel Tillman; Song An; Rachel Boren; David Slykhuis

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 33, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 327–348

This study assessed the impact of nine lessons incorporating a NASA-themed transmedia book featuring digital fabrication activities on 5th-grade students (n = 29) recognized as advanced in mathematics based on their academic record. Data collected...

Using Flipped Instruction to Proactively Meet the Needs of Students

Kristina Doubet; Eric Carbaugh; David Slykhuis; Richard Clemens; Steve Purcell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1991–1994

A flipped instructional model can be used to engage students in a more flexible in-class learning experience, both in K-12 classrooms and in the university setting. The flexibility afforded through flipped instruction is also a foundation of a...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Implementing Simulations as an Initial Field Experience for pre-service Teachers

David Slykhuis; Rich Clemens; Karen Kellison; Steve Purcell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2638–2639

Our University is facing increased pressure from students for more and earlier school based placements. We already have, however, nearly saturated our local area with our current placement load given the size of our University and its rural...

Faculty Development for Technology Integration: Opportunities and Challenges on a Global Scale

Mark Hofer; John Lee; David Slykhuis; James Ptaszynski

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 770–774

Two years ago Microsoft Education invited a group of teacher educators from ten universities and three professional organizations from the United States, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Finland and issued a grand challenge - to develop the...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, International Education

Eye-Tracking Students' Attention to PowerPoint Photographs in a Science Education Setting

David A. Slykhuis; Eric N. Wiebe; Len A. Annetta

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 14, No. 5 (December 2005) pp. 509–520

Eye-tracking technology allows for the determination of the exact location of the point of gaze of a subject's eye. This study sought to take advantage of this ability to determine how students attend to science related photographs. Pre-service...

Using the TPACK Framework to Increase Technology use in Higher Education Around the World

David Slykhuis; Mark Hofer; John Lee; Jim Ptaszynski

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1056–1061

Higher education faculty are experts in their fields, but often are not practiced in the fine art of teaching. Teaching practice in higher education is dominated by stand and deliver pedagogies that limit students opportunities to engage in the...

Topics: Change, Faculty, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Flipping for Flexibility: Tools for Differentiating Instruction within the Flipped Environment

Eric Carbaugh; Kristina Doubet; David Slykhuis; Steve Purcell; Richard Clemens

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1588–1591

An increasing number of classrooms are moving to the Flipped model of instruction (Bergmann & Sams, 2012). According to survey data collected by the Flipped Learning Network and Sophia Learning, fewer than half of surveyed teachers had flipped a...

Topics: Classrooms, Mobile Learning, Assessment and E-Folios, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Reflections on Two Educational Technology Pioneers: John Park and Terry Markwart

Glen Bull; David Slykhuis; Lisa Martin-Hansen; Sharon Robinson

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 2015) pp. 437–444

Within the span of a month last summer, the field of educational technology lost two immensely valuable friends. Terrence Edmund “Terry” Markwart passed away on June 3, 2015, after a courageous battle with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. John C. Park, Ph.D.,...

Revisiting the first CITE Journal and the state of promoting and preparing teachers to use technology in the content areas.

John Lee; Marshall George; Joe Garofalo; John Park; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) p. 2567

This session will present four new versions of the very first articles accepted into the CITE journal examining the state and role of technology in pre-service teacher education. We will examine what has and has not changed in the last 15 years as...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Three Domains for Technology Integration in Science Teacher Education

Sumreen Asim; Joshua Ellis; David Slykhuis; Jason Trumble

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 2022) pp. 664–684

The science teacher education community plays a prominent role in teacher preparation programs. Particularly, science methods courses emphasize modeling instructional strategies to promote inquiry-based practices. Integrating appropriate...

The Big Reveal: Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

David Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2457–2461

Abstract: Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) were developed via a highly collaborative process involving many teacher educators, professional associations, and experts in the field. The research team conducted this study using the...

Topics: Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Invited Commentary: The Time is Now! Creating Technology Competencies for Teacher Educators

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; David Slykhuis; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Torrey Trust

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2016) pp. 249–256

The way preservice teachers learn to use technology within their practice varies widely depending on the learning opportunities available (e.g., technology-infused teacher preparation program vs. standalone education technology course), and the...

Applying the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2019, No. 1 (2019)

The National Educational Technology Plan (2016), charges teacher preparation programs with addressing educational technology in a program-deep and program-wide fashion with the claim that new teachers should be “prepared to teach with technology...

Teacher Educator Technology Competencies: A Conversation with the Researchers

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1055–1059

With concern about how to improve the method by which teacher candidates learn to teach with technology, four teacher educators created a list of competencies that all teacher educators would need to develop. The Teacher Educator Technology...

Topics: Workforce Education, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Technology Integration and Teacher Preparation: The Development of Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

Kevin J. Graziano; Teresa S. Foulger; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2336–2346

Preservice teachers should be better prepared to teach with technology ?from day one? when they enter the profession (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, 2016). Teacher preparation curricula along with teacher educators?...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 25, No. 4 (October 2017) pp. 413–448

The U.S. National Educational Technology Plan recommends the need to have a common set of technology competencies specifically for teacher educators who prepare teacher candidates to teach with technology (U.S. Department of Education, Office of...

Teaching STEM Through Historical Reconstructions: The Future Lies in the Past

David A. Slykhuis; Martin-Hansen Lisa; Christine D. Thomas; Steven Barbato

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 15, No. 3 (September 2015) pp. 255–264

Although we would agree that the components of STEM do not need to be taught all together, all the time, authentic exemplary integrated STEM curricula are difficult to find. When educators refer to integrated STEM teaching and learning, they often...

Special Issue Editorial - The Teacher Educator Technology Competencies: So What? Now What?

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2019) pp. 431–436

“All teacher candidates should have equitable, high-quality technology experiences throughout their teacher preparation programs” (Foulger, Graziano, Schmidt-Crawford, & Slykhuis, 2017, p. 436). We wrote that sentence after having just completed a...

Creativity in Classrooms 2022: Field-Tested Best Practices

Daniel A. Tillman; Danah Henriksen; John Lee; David Slykhuis; Thomas J. Soto

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1321–1322

This panel discussion brings together experts on the topic of “Creativity in Classrooms 2022: Field-Tested Best Practices” including a wide array of educational technology researchers from universities located in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and North...

Topics: Games & Simulations, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), Creativity, Design Thinking & Innovation

Re-Dimensional Thinking in Earth Science: From 3-D Virtual Reality Panoramas to 2-D Contour Maps

John Park; Glenda Carter; Susan Butler; David Slykhuis; Angelia Reid-Griffin

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 75–90

This study examines the relationship of gender and spatial perception on student interactivity with contour maps and non-immersive virtual reality. Eighteen eighth-grade students elected to participate in a six-week activity-based course called "3-D ...

Topics: Science, Human Computer Interaction, Middle School Education, Adolescents, Virtual Environments

Building Multidisciplinary Connections: Intersections of Content, Creativity, and Digital Fabrication Technologies

Shaunna Smith; Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; David Slykhuis; Curby Alexander; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Church; Adam Goodman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2506–2510

This symposium seeks to address how various digital fabrication technologies can be integrated for authentic experiential learning that nurtures creativity and fosters the development of multidisciplinary connections. With the unique ability to...

Topics: Creativity, Engineering Education, Digital Fabrication