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The ideas of 3rd years students of technical schools in Cyprus about light and its properties
(University of Cyprus, 2008)
This paper aims to report and investigate the ideas of 18 year-old (3rd year) students of Vocational Education in
Technical Schools in Cyprus, about light and its properties. In Technical High School Education physics is ...
Computerized use of thinking journey mode of instruction as a means to enhance classroom argumentation and listen to students' egocentricity and change of students' conceptual understanding
(University of Cyprus, 2008)
The combination of the computerized Digalo (Schwarz & de Groot, 2007) as a graphical tool for representing
argumentative moves in on-going e-discussions and the Thinking Journey (TJ) mode of instruction (Schur and
Galili, ...
Do all bodies fall equally? On the importance of stating the area of validity in physics education
(University of Cyprus, 2008)
Galileo's law of free fall, a corner stone of modern science, is usually accepted without any limits except the
condition of vacuum. The present study, following the paradigm of educational reconstruction (Duit et al. ...
Integrating information technology into the teaching and learning of high school science
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)
This presentation will describe innovative applications of Information and Communication Technology in a large
Canadian senior high school. In particular the presentation will focus on the instructional use of videoconferencing
in ...
Learning through viable knowledge creation
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)
The idea that learners can have styles of learning derives from the work of Kolb, which stems
from an inadequate theory of learning behaviour. Learning might better be placed within the
context such as the knowledge creation ...
Design principles for an open and wide Modellingspace of modelling, collaboration And learning
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
The aim of the paper is to present and discuss the main design concepts and principles, for a collaborative modeling environment for sciences and mathematics (MODELLINGSPACE). It incorporates various representational ...
The design, implementation, and evaluation of an environmental-based cscl task with 5th and 6th graders
(University of Cyprus, 2007)
The present paper aims to report on the progressive design, development, and evaluation of an environmentalbased
computer supported collaborative learning task for upper primary school students. In the first section of ...
Designing applets that foster constructivist teaching and learning
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)
The Modular Approach to Physics (MAP) project makes extensive use of “educational objects” which include
Flash animations, Java Applets and Java Applications. A paramount concern in the design of these objects has
been to ...
Virtual field trips in science: why students Would rather take them than leave them
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Virtual Field trips open new possibilities for instructional designers to create more interactive worlds for learners. However is the interactivity afforded by such desktop systems for users sufficient for learners to feel ...
The role of critical thinking In physics learning
(University of Cyprus, 2008)
Critical thinking is usually seen as crucial to Physics learning. This is clearly stated in the purposes of many
Physics’ curricula. In fact, since Dewey, several authors argue that critical thinking is fundamental to ...