Search results for author:"Glenn Smith"
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How Interactivity Works: priming of mental rotation
Glenn Smith; Sinan Olkun
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4293–4302
This study has important implications for design of microworlds such as Hypergami, and Logo which use interactivity to help students learn spatial mental models involving math and science. This study tested the hypothesis that interactively rotating ...
Topics: Computers, Interaction, Computer Sciences
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Computer-Game Play as Imaginary Stage for Reading: Pentop computers, hardcopy books and spatial situation models
Glenn Smith; Sinan Olkun
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 575–582
This study investigated the implicit effects of interactive map books (patent pending), with computer games embedded in books using PenTop computers, (versus regular books) on reading comprehension and retention of spatial details from stories. Two...
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Put the story back into story problems: Effect of causal narrative on mathematical word problem comprehension
Glenn Smith; Sinan Olkun
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3629–3634
This study investigated whether combining causal with mathematical elements improves mathematical word problem performance, providing a more meaningful context to construct better situation models. Seventy-two undergraduate students majoring in...
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LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK: interact then mentally rotate: spatial skills
Glenn Smith; Sinan Olkun
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2798–2803
Does interaction with shapes help build internal spatial representations? This has implications for science, math, engineering and other fields. This study tested the hypothesis that interactive manipulation of a shape improves mental rotation....
Topics: Interaction
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Why Interactivity Works: Interactive Priming of Mental Rotation
Glenn Gordon Smith; Sinan Olkun
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 32, No. 2 (2005) pp. 93–111
This study has important implications for microworlds such as Logo, HyperGami, and Newton's World, which use interaction to learn spatial mental models for science, math, geometry, etc. This study tested the hypothesis that interactively rotating ...
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Pre-service classroom teachers’ learning of spatial skills through geometric transformations – U.S.A and Turkey
Glenn Smith; Sinan Olkun; Helen Gerretson; Deniz Deryakulu; James Dogbey; Aliye Erdem
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5709–5713
This study investigated how elementary education pre-service teachers in Turkey and the United States learned geometric transformations from structured activities using an interactive computer program, and how these activities transferred to a non...
Topics: Mathematics, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary Education
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Stills, not full motion, for interactive spatial training: American, Turkish and Taiwanese female pre-service teachers learn spatial visualization
Glenn Gordon Smith; Helen Gerretson; Sinan Olkun; Yuan Yuan; James Dogbey; Aliye Erdem
Computers & Education Vol. 52, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 201–209
This study investigated how female elementary education pre-service teachers in the United States, Turkey and Taiwan learned spatial skills from structured activities involving discrete, as opposed to continuous, transformations in interactive...
Language: English