The main aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness critical pedagogy and high-order thinking skills in upgrading values-based education intercultural understanding. Critical a transformational approach that aims embrace educational values, identity, commonality beneficence value individual freedom today’s globalised world. In regard, teacher’s role help learners aggrandize their cultura...

We will present Common Knowledge (CK) – a pedagogical and technological innovation that supports teacher orchestration of inquiry discourse occurring in the digital and classroom environments. We designed CK to support a “knowledge community” pedagogy where students add their own ideas, build on peers’ contributions, and structure their inquiry. Using tablets, students contributed to a knowledg...

The aim of this study is to investigate how new knowledge can be developed in computer-mediated social practice. Its focus is on how language frames university students’ interaction and action while studying web-based literature in small task-based groups. The empirical data were collected from a case study where 57 Rwandan student teachers were completing an examination task mediated by comput...

Opening thoughts This paper is an extension of a piece that I recently presented as part of a collective project[2] at the Provoking Curriculum Conference (Miranda, 2003). The collective project mainly grappled with a question of what counts as knowing, learning or teaching. This prompted me to question what counts as knowing in discourses that arise in mathematics classrooms. Here, I explore t...

It is widely recognized that the Internet offers tremendous potential for education at all levels. This article describes a case study examining how an Internet communication program, EdPsy Web, which was used to support a pre-service teacher training course changed the quality of social and intellectual interactions relative to those found in a traditional classroom setting. Using a post-cours...

Educational research has found that conventional classroom discussions often demonstrate a gender bias. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of IT to support organizational knowledge management by mediating discourse through EMS, E-mail, listservers, Lotus Notes, chat rooms, threaded discussions, and the like. But do these technologies foster more inclusive dialogue? Ma...

We developed and offered a sequence of neuroscience courses geared toward changing the way non-science students interact with the sciences. Although we accepted students from all majors and at all class levels, our target population was first and second year students who were majoring in the fine arts or the humanities, or who had not yet declared a major. Our goal was to engage these students ...

This paper presents a novel method for improving the readability of automatic speech recognition (ASR) results for classroom lectures. Because speech in a classroom is spontaneous and contains many ill-formed utterances with various disfluencies, the ASR result should be edited to improve the readability before presenting it to users, by applying some operations such as removing disfluencies, d...

Children encounter metaphor in all aspects of their daily lives, including the spoken and written discourse of school, and metaphor can be one of the routes through which socio-cultural norms are appropriated. The use of metaphor seems to be a basic human skill, which develops in interaction with developing world knowledge and linguistic skills. Both use of metaphor and the development of metap...