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Improving Student Engagement Despite Lowering Attention Spans In The Classroom, Kaycee Lee Apr 2024

Improving Student Engagement Despite Lowering Attention Spans In The Classroom, Kaycee Lee

Senior Honors Theses

Attention spans have been decreasing throughout society for many years, partially due to the constant increase of technological advances. The average human attention span of eight seconds is particularly concerning to teachers and others in the classroom. It does not seem that the average attention span is ever going to increase, so teachers must implement intentional methods and strategies within their classroom to keep their students’ attention. Physical activities, technology and hands-on supports, small group instruction, shorter lessons, making intentional mistakes, flexible seating, and differentiated instruction are all strategies supported by research to improve student engagement within the classroom. Every …


A Review Of Xr Classrooms In Institutions Of Higher Education, Brandon Patterson, Tallie Casucci Apr 2022

A Review Of Xr Classrooms In Institutions Of Higher Education, Brandon Patterson, Tallie Casucci

Frameless

This talk will review the literature and examine existing physical spaces using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), often referred together as extended reality (XR), to teach learners in an academic setting. Attendees will better understand best practices and ways of addressing potential challenges when designing a physical XR classroom space for higher education. A physical XR classroom provides institutions with a dedicated space for educational courses and workshops, which utilize XR for both one- off sessions and an entire semester (Pirker, Holly, and Gütl 2020). The talk will help answer the question, why a dedicated XR classroom?


Technology Use In Education By Students And Teachers, Cody Dyhrkopp Jul 2021

Technology Use In Education By Students And Teachers, Cody Dyhrkopp

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

Technology in education is becoming more and more common in the digital era that we now live in. The purpose of this literature review is create awareness of students and teacher's feelings towards technology in education. In addition to their feelings, an abundance of positive ways to integrate technology in the educational setting were also identified. The ways to use technology in the classroom include play, digital storytelling, games based learning, blogs, coding, robotics and virtual field trips. Teachers can also use technology to make significant changes to their classroom settings by flipping the classroom, making their classrooms one to …


Pre-Service Teacher's Perceptions Of Technology Integration In Their Future Classrooms, Mckenzie Scoffield, Jennifer Wimmer Jun 2019

Pre-Service Teacher's Perceptions Of Technology Integration In Their Future Classrooms, Mckenzie Scoffield, Jennifer Wimmer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Due to the increase in technology in schools, teachers are required to understand how to use the technology, and how to integrate curriculum with it. Technology is incredibly diverse and holds limitless possibilities to the new design of innovative learning. It is also becoming increasingly more common in classrooms through interactive whiteboards, computers, projectors, IPADS, chrome books, etc (Carr and Martin, 2015). However, most in-service teachers say that in order to incorporate this technology into their classrooms, they need to be well versed in how to combine technology with their curriculum (Kara and Cagiltay, 2017). The purpose of this quantitative …