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"** Invited as a paper from SITE 2004 **" Teaching for understanding is a traditional goal in education that is enhanced through what curriculum theorists Wiggins and McTighe (1998) call "uncovering." In this paper the authors describe the ways that ...

Teaching for understanding is a traditional goal in education that is enhanced through what curriculum theorists Wiggins and McTighe (1998) call "uncovering." In this paper we will describe the ways that interactive computer technology-specifically...

Interactive computer technology enhances the focus and purpose of instruction and learning in art. An intentionally tangled approach to interpretation and curriculum design – one that links visual culture, works of art, and content from various...

In this study education students accessed Second Life (SL), a three-dimensional virtual community, to meet language learners from Lingnan University in Hong Kong. They had no experience with SL prior to being introduced to it in this course. The...

Cultural anthropologist, educational researchers, and technologist have sought to explore, document, frame, and discuss youth involvement with social media. Current research outlines how youth engage in and use social media. However, little...

As new media emerge in the common culture, the authors recommend that art educators adopt those media to facilitate deep understanding of visual culture and literacy. They report here on applications of an online image gallery that helps users...

This focus group study explored the potential benefits and challenges of involving family members and significant others in a healthy lifestyle program for people with serious mental illness (SMI). Six focus group interviews were conducted with a...

Technological media catapults our perception into what Marshall McLuhan called "new transforming vision and awareness." As our lives become more and more immersed in such technologies as television, film, and interactive computers, we find ourselves ...

When interactive computer technology is used in meaningful and connective ways, it both enhances and provokes the focus and purpose of art instruction and learning to be expansive and personally relevant. In this paper, we describe an approach to...