Supporting Teachers Using Palm Computers: Examining Classroom Practice over Time (2008)
Richard Vath, William Bobrowsky, Elliot Soloway, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Joseph Krajcik, Alycia Meriweather, ...
To meet the recent demand for reform in science education (NRC, 1996; AAAS, 1993), the Center for Highly Interactive Classrooms, Curricula, Computing in Education (hi-ce) at the University of...
Tak-wai Chan, Jeremy Roschelle, Sherry Hsi, Mike Sharples, Tom Brown, Charles Patton, ...
3 4 T.-W. Chan et al.
Students ' Searching and Evaluating with the Artemis Interface to a Digital Library (2008)
Nathan Bos, Karen Drabenstott, Joseph Krajcik, Elliot Soloway, Melanie Talley, Steven Woolridge, ...
Abstract: This paper describes the design and evaluation of the Artemis interface to the University of Michigan Digital Library, which was built to assist students in searching on-line collections....
MUSHI: A Multi-Device Framework for Collaborative Inquiry Learning (2008)
Leilah Lyons, Joseph Lee, Christopher Quintana, Elliot Soloway
framework, which was designed to support middle and high school students in the acquisition of scientific concepts rooted in complex, multi-scalar phenomena. In designing a learning environment that...
SPEClAL SECT/ON LEARNING TO PROGRAM = LEARNING TO CONSTRUCT MECHANISMS AND EXPLANATIONS (2007)
Teaching effective problem-solving skills in the context of teaching programming necessitates a revised curriculum for introducto y computer programming courses. MOTIVATION AND GOALS A...
Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents (2007)
Daniel E. Arkins, William P. Birmingham, Edmund H. Durfee, Erie J. Glover, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elliot Soloway, ...
Digital Library, interacting software agents cooperate and compete within a virtual information economy to provide library services to students, researchers, and pk roviding true access to the human...
Soloway Ehrlich, Elliot Soloway, Jeffrey Bonar Learning
are attemptiJ~g to (1) understand how programmers--novices and experts--read and write programs, and (2) build software environments based firmly on this psychological research that facilitate the...
SPECIAL SECTION NOVICE MISTAKES: ARE THE FOLK WISDOMS CORRECT? (2007)
James C. Spohrer, Elliot Soloway
Researchers have recently been trying to gain an understanding of the kinds of mistakes novice pro-grammers are likely to make [2, 4, 7, 11, 15, 191. One of the main motivations for these efforts is...
Hsin-kai Wu, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway
Abstract: Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular chemical representations. This study investigates how students develop their understanding of chemical representations with the...
Inquiry in Science Classrooms (2007)
Joseph Krajcik, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Ron Marx, Elliot Soloway
approaches to science instruction feature inquiry as essential for student learning. The assumption is that students need opportunities to find solutions to real problems by asking and refining...
Baohui Zhang, Hsin-kai Wu, Eric B. Fretz, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway
In this study, we explore and characterize middle school science students ’ modeling strategies when they are engaged in scientific modeling by the use of a computer-based modeling tool, Model-It....
“Going to Scale and Sustaining Educational Reform Initiatives: District, Regional, and (2007)
Elliot Soloway, Joseph Krajcik, Ron Marx, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Longitudinal Perspectives, Reculturing Process, ...
The past decade has seen great strides in the design of new learning technologies that support learning aligned with standards-based constructivist and inquiry teaching practices. Though there is...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration (2006)
Chan, Tak-Wai, Roschelle, Jeremy, Hsi, Sherry, Kinshuk, Kinshuk, Sharples, Mike, Brown, Tom, ...
Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners - indeed, in many countries, this is already a...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration (2006)
Chan, Tak-Wai, Roschelle, Jeremy, Hsi, Sherry, Kinshuk, Kinshuk, Sharples, Mike, Brown, Tom, ...
Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners - indeed, in many countries, this is already a...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)
Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...
More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...
PROUST: Knowledge-Based Program Understanding. (2005)
Johnson,W. Lewis, Soloway,Elliot
This paper describes a program called PROUST which does on-line analysis and understanding of Pascal programs written by novice programmers. PROUST takes as input a program and a non-algorithm...
Hoffman, Joseph L., Wu, Hsin-Kai, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot
Early research on using the World Wide Web indicated that middle school students did not explore much and used Web tools naively. In response to these challenges, an on-line research engine, Artemis,...
An Investigation of Software Scaffolds Supporting Modeling Practices (2002)
Davis, Elizabeth A., Wu, Hsin-Kai, Fretz, Eric B., Zhang, BaoHui, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot
Modeling of complex systems and phenomena is of value in science learning and is increasingly emphasised as an important component of science teaching and learning. Modeling engages learners in...
Editorial—A Survey of Research Questions for Intelligent Information Systems in Education (2002)
Cherniavsky, John C., Soloway, Elliot
Education is an application domain in which many research questions from Intelligent Information Systems may prove their worth. We discuss three themes in this editorial: distributed education and...
Teaching the Nintendo Generation to Program (2002)
While the phrase “New Economy ” doesn’t hold the same promise that it did for the dotcommers a couple years ago, we all still recognize that Information Technology has become the backbone of...
Wu, Hsin-Kai, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot
Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of...
Kathleen Luchini, Paul Oehler, Chris Quintana, Elliot Soloway
Inquiry-based curricula encourage students to develop research and collaboration skills by working with evidence and exploring real problems. Students engaging in inquiry projects must be supported...
Hsin-kai Wu, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway
Abstract: This study investigates how students develop their understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a visualizing tool, eChem, that allows them to build molecular models and view...
Barry J. Fishman, Louis M. Gomez, Elliot Soloway
In considering the role that leadership plays in the successful use of technology for urban school reform, one must first consider the overall role of school leaders. Are school leaders responsible...
Linking Urban Latino Families to School Using the Web: A Pilot Study (1999)
Barry Fishman, Jeff Kupperman, Elliot Soloway
: What happens when a community that has previously had very little or no exposure to the Internet receives Internet access at home? This paper describes a project that provided television set-top...
MENO-II: An AI-Based Programming Tutor. (1998)
Soloway,Elliot, Rubin,Eric, Woolf,Beverly, Bonar,Jeffrey, Johnson,W. Lewis
MENO-II is a computer-based tutor intended to help novices learning to program in Pascal. The BUG-FINDing component attempts to find non-syntactic bugs in a student's program. It draws on a database...
Classifying Bugs is a Tricky Business. (1998)
Johnson,W. Lewis, Draper,Stephen, Soloway,Elliot
In order to build a computer-based programming tutor for novice programmers, it was necessary to first classify the bugs found in their programs on the basis of type and frequency. However, the...
Knowledge-Based Environments for Teaching and Learning. (1998)
Woolf, Beverly, Soloway, Elliot, Clancey, William, VanLehn, Kurt, Suthers, Dan
The Spring Symposium on Knowledge-based Environments for Teaching and Learning focused on the use of technology to facilitate learning, training, teaching, counseling, coaxing and coaching. Sixty...
Krajcik, Joseph S., Stratford, Steven J., Soloway, Elliot
In this paper, we explore dynamic modeling as an opportunity for students to think about the science content they are learning. We examined the “Cognitive Strategies for Modeling” (CSMs) in which...
The design of guided learner-adaptable scaffolding in interactive learning environments (1998)
Shari L. Jackson, Joseph Krajcik, Elliot Soloway
To address the needs of a population of users who are also learners, the learner-centered design of software suggests the need to design scaffolding—fadeable supports—into educational tools. This...
Introducing Urban Latino Families to the Internet at Home: Preliminary Issues and Trends (1998)
Barry Fishman, Jeff Kupperman, E. Soloway, Elliot Soloway
: What happens when a community that has previously had very little or no exposure to the Internet receives Internet access at home? This paper describes a project that provided television set-top...
Digital Libraries in the Science Classroom: An Opportunity for Inquiry (1996)
Wallace, Raven, Krajcik, Joseph, Soloway, Elliot
Digital libraries offer a unique and unprecedented resource through which teachers can facilitate student inquiry. In the recent National Research Council publication quoted above, National Science...
Learning theory in practice: Case studies of learner-centered design (1996)
Elliot Soloway, Shari L. Jackson, Jonathan Klein, Chris Quintana, James Reed, Jeff Spitulnik, ...
The design of software for learners must be guided by educational theory. We present a framework for learner-centered design (LCD) that is theoretically motivated by sociocultural and constructivist...
Students as multimedia composers (1994)
Hay, Kenneth E., Guzdal, Mark, Jackson, Shari, Boyle, Robert A., Soloway, Elliot
This study is distinguished by distancing itself from the type of multimedia research that looks at the effects of multimedia instructional units on students. The approach, instead, is within a...
Characterizing Process Change Using Log File Data (1993)
Guzdial, Mark, Walton, Chris, Konemann, Michael, Soloway, Elliot
Students learning a new task with an unfamiliar interface must learn the task, the interface, and a task-to-device mapping which enables them to develop an efficient process for achieving goals with...
Characterizing Process Change Using Log File Data (1993)
Guzdial, Mark, Walton, Chris, Konemann, Michael, Soloway, Elliot
Students learning a new task with an unfamiliar interface must learn the task, the interface, and a task-to-device mapping which enables them to develop an efficient process for achieving goals with...
Artificial intelligence and learning environments: Preface (1990)
Clancey, William J., Soloway, Elliot
Peer Reviewed
This report was prepared as one component of an OTA project entitled "Educational Technology: An Assessment of Practice and Potential," requested by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor....
The Buggy Path to The Development of Programming Expertise (1987)
Pea, Roy D., Soloway, Elliot, Spohrer, Jim C.
not available
This report was prepared as one component of an OTA project entitled "Educational Technology: An Assessment of Practice and Potential," requested by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor....
The Buggy Path to The Development of Programming Expertise (1987)
Pea, Roy D., Soloway, Elliot, Spohrer, Jim C.
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No One Is Making Money In Educational Software. (0000)
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Science in the Plams of their Hands. (0000)
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Does the Internet Support Student Inquiry? Don't Ask. (0000)
Inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the central strategy for teaching science. Such inquiry requires access to serious information resources. The article discusses...
Using Technology to Address Old Problems in New Ways
This article discusses the use of innovative computer technology in teaching aids and education for children, in various newfound ways. According to the author, utilizing the potential of various...
Log on education: K-12 and the Internet
The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning. Learning is promoted when information resources and discourse around...
No One Is Making Money In Educational Software.
The article explores challenges involved in getting to the point where a true cornucopia of educational software is available for the children. No one is making serious money selling educational...
Science in the Plams of their Hands.
The article focuses on the introduction of technology in the learning process. The National Research Council (NRC) says that inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the...
Does the Internet Support Student Inquiry? Don't Ask.
Inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the central strategy for teaching science. Such inquiry requires access to serious information resources. The article discusses...