Students' Roles in Group-Work with Visual Data: A Site of Science Learning

Josh Radinsky

Cognition and Instruction Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 145–194

Learning science includes learning to argue with "inscriptions": images used to symbolize information persuasively. This study examined sixth-graders learning to invest inscriptions with representational status, in a geographic information system ...

School-University Collaborative Design Teams: Curriculum Design as a Vehicle for Professional Development in Teaching with Technology

Louanne Smolin; Kimberly Lawless; Josh Radinsky; Mark Newman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3775–3778

The University of Illinois at Chicago has created a professional development program in which teachers, teacher-education faculty, and technology consultants collaborate to create technology-infused curriculum Modules. These Design Teams offer...

Topics: Professional Development, Collaboration, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials

Using Technology for Urban Teacher Preparation: a PT3 project.

Kimberly Lawless; Mark Newman; Josh Radinsky; Louanne Smolin; Scott Brown

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1768–1769

Introduction and Background In an effort to bring about educational reform, many states have changed to a standards based competency model and adopted new accountability procedures that demand results from students, teachers and schools. These...

Topics: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Evaluation, Professional Development, Networking Technologies

Preparing Technology-Savvy Mentor Teachers For Preservice Field Experiences

Kimberly Lawless; Josh Radinsky; Louanne Smolin; Mark Newman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3830–3833

This interactive presentation will detail a replicable model for recruiting, supporting and sustaining technology mentors for teacher candidates accomplishing their field practicums in urban schools. Included in this model are mechanisms to assess...

Topics: Teachers, Mentoring, Professional Development

Developing technology-integrated field experience sites in urban schools: Approaches, assumptions, and lessons learned

Josh Radinsky; Kimberly Lawless; Louanne Ione Smolin; Mark Newman

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 2 (2005) pp. 169–176

The Teachers Infusing Technology in Urban Schools project (TITUS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is developing an approach for addressing the shortage of opportunities for teacher candidates to experience technology being used...

Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Mentoring, Schools

Problematizing Complex Datasets for Students: Design Principles for Inquiry Curriculum

Josh Radinsky; Ben Loh; Jennifer Mundt; Sue Marshall; Louis M. Gomez; Brian J. Reiser; Daniel C. Edelson

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1999 (April 1999)

Recent advances in computer technologies have provided new tools for accessing complex data for classroom inquiry. The effectiveness of these tools for learning depends on the extent to which students learn to engage them reflectively. From an...