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Teachers Teaching Teachers @UOttawaEdu
The final week of the teacher education program is upon us at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education — and it is punctuated by a two-day series of professional learning seminars for teacher education candidates. I’ll be presenting to a group of students today on online inquiry. My presentation brings together some of my…
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Old-school tech, new school reading: On repurposing transparency film to support multiple text integration online
I’m nearing the end of data collection in a study that (I hope) will provide teachers with much-needed information on methods that support (or don’t support?) 9th grade students’ reading of multiple, multi-modal Internet texts on science-focused topics of inquiry. As I was developing my teaching intervention, I was especially concerned with methods that would…
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Does online reading comprehension require more “cognitive energy” than offline reading comprehension?
Question: Does online reading comprehension require more “cognitive energy” (Duke, Schmar-Dobler & Zhang, 2006) than offline reading comprehension? Answer: Maybe. Helpful resources Brand-Grewel, S. Wopereis, I., Walraven, A. (2009). A descriptive model of information problem solving while using Internet. Computers & Education, 53, 1207-1217. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.06.004 Duke, N. K., Schmar-Dobler, E., & Zhang, S. (2006). Comprehension…