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Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Education (KITE – http://kite.coe.missouri.edu) is a PT3 project designed to serve as a support system for teachers, teacher education faculty, technology coordinators, and administrators in technology...

Using the lens of Mary Douglas' Grid and Group Typology, this case study: 1) described the organizational context of two colleges within a four-year comprehensive university, the College of Veterinary Studies (CVS) and the College of Human Ecology ...

The purpose of the "Polaris: Creating Math and Science Stars" project is to demonstrate and provide professional development for integrated, inquiry-based teaching in secondary school classrooms. With a focus on Hypothesis Based Learning (Rockley...

This paper builds the groundwork for a professional development model based on the following supposition: Instructors will adopt instructional technology at a more meaningful level when they first analyze their own instructional style within the...

Reform in education tends to follow the logic of "more is better." We face a continuing cycle of more standards, more legislation, more testing, more teacher preparation, and more accountability. Professional development efforts to create technology ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching of WWW search strategies within the context of technology-based lessons in case studies available in the Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Education (KITE) PT3 project. 1258 cases were...

In 2005, the Educational Technology department at Oklahoma State University recognized the need for K12 student media producers to have a state-level outlet for their productions. The Oklahoma State Student Media Festival (OKSMF) was born and...

The purpose of this session is to report on an MSP partnership that provided teachers with tools for enhancing student learning with commercial off-the-shelf and edutainment video games in the classroom. The presenters have worked with multiple...

This presentation will report on a three-year effort to sustain teacher professional development through online learning communities using Yahoo! Groups, listserv, and Wikispaces. Four funded grants over a period of three years focused on improving...

This presentation will report on a NCLB-funded professional development initiative providing teachers with content knowledge and pedagogical skills to engage students in solving authentic, multi-disciplinary problems in a relevant context. Multi...

Digital Immigrant teachers encounter a variety of barriers in their efforts to bring video games into the classroom. Preservice and inservice teachers need strategies for thinking about pedagogy in ways that can result in successfully bridging this...

Legislative action in the State of Oklahoma did away with a “resident teacher” program providing mentoring support for every first year teacher by a committee made up of a higher education faculty member, the school site principal, and a mentor...