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Level Up! Library Orientation With A Phone-Based Exploration Game, Beth Jane Toren

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This self-paced, reasonably priced, and imaginatively blended activity provides an effective, customizable, and scalable alternative to in-person tours. The Green Door Labs EdVenture Builder is specifically targeted to libraries and museums and has an interface with game mechanics built in on menus, allowing users with no programming experience to independently create games. Students learn about the library in an engaging way and instructors can be provided with game scores to provide credit for the activity.

Individuals or teams new to the library play an exploration game on their mobile phone while exploring library physical and/or virtual locations, services, and resources. …

Building Creative Confidence During Covid-19: Adapting Design Thinking For Online Learning, Lisha Bornilla, Marianne Kayle Amurao

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

In this paper, we describe our experience in designing and delivering a course on Creativity and Innovation Management with a heavy emphasis on Design Thinking using Kolb’s Learning Cycle theory as a framework. The main challenge involved being able to preserve targeted outcomes based on Creative Confidence despite the constraints imposed by lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The metadisciplinary approach to re-implementing the course with technology through principles involving Puentedura’s SAMR model has yielded positive results based on creative confidence as the primary desired outcome.

7th–8th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Disasters #1, Caryn G. Jones, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Disasters Happen, Grades 7-8

Building academic language

Welcome to disaster preparedness

Defining disaster

Location, location, location: Refreshing your geography mind, More maps and stuff

Where are the dangers?

Looking for signs and warnings: You could save a life!

A success story

What would you pay attention to?

Most deadly disasters

Analyze the data

What is it like? How does it feel?

Vocabulary

Warn your colleague example

My personal dictionary

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: School, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

School vocabulary

Write and draw

Try the words in a sentence

Class vocabulary

Matching vocabulary

Class schedule

My schedule

School actions

Prepositions introduction

Vocabulary cards: prepositions

People at school

Job description

Drawing prepositions

How to open a lock

Lock combination

Make a safety plan

Your turn!

Similarities and differences

Facts and opinions about classrooms

Compare and contrast

Safety and school

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential question

Angles and polygons

Let's take a break!

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Spring Week 1, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Brandon Heinz

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

In this packet, we have included the following activities: - Create a Buddy. This is the first activity in the packet and is intended to help your student have someone to talk to about the work they are doing in the packet. We have included images of potential “buddies” that your student can choose from. We suggest they choose a buddy and add features and color to the buddy however they would like. They should also name their buddy. Throughout the packet activities, your student will be told to talk to their buddy or even to ask their buddy questions. …

Kinder – 1st Grade: Summer Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Tricia Gray, Jessica Mitchell-Mccollough, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

Day 1 • My Buddy • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Let’s Write! Color the pictures and trace the words. • Read the story What is a Family? • Let’s Count! • Journal • Let’s Move! Play Tic Tac Toe!

Day 2 • Check the Weather • What will you wear? • Vocabulary Review …

Parent–Teacher Online Communication And Third- Through Fifth-Grade Student Academic Achievement, Sandra Joyce Mcknight

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractTechnology-based tools for parent–teacher communication, such as online parent portals, are becoming the preferred method of exchanging information between home and school. However, little research has been conducted on parent–teacher communication using online parent portals. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between parents’ use of a parent–teacher online communication parent portal and students’ academic achievement. Bandura’s social cognitive theory of self-efficacy provided the theoretical framework for this study. Archival data from a Southeast U.S. public school district were used to examine the relationship between parents’ average quarterly use of a parent portal and …

Teach-To-One Blended Mathematics' Impact On Middle School Students' Mathematics Achievement, Navdeep Dhindsa

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Blended learning that integrates computer-assisted instruction with face-to-face instruction is gaining popularity in U.S. middle schools; therefore, the effectiveness of such blended learning models in improving middle school students' achievement in mathematics needs to be explored. Middle school students at a public Connecticut school have shown poor performance in mathematics on a state standardized test. The local district implemented a blended learning model, Teach to One: Math (TTO), in 1 of the middle schools to improve students' performance in mathematics. The theoretical framework for this study was Koehler and Mishra's theory of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge. The key research …

Motivational Factors Of At-Risk Students In Blended High School Credit Recovery, Tyese L. Parnell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Although the number of high school students taking online courses for an initial course or credit recovery (CR) is growing, it is not clear why at-risk students are not successful in blended CR courses. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore teachers’ perceptions and students’ experiences related to at-risk students’ motivation in blended CR courses. Keller’s ARCS model of motivation for instructional design provided the framework for the study. Data were collected from interviews with 2 teachers, 5 students and from 2 school sites, face-to-face classroom observations, and online CR curricula. Data were analyzed through a …

The Relationship Between Digital Literacy Skills Instruction And Increased Skills Proficiency, Kelli Erwin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Though today's students are considered digital natives, they lack the digital literacy skills needed to be competent and productive members of a digital society. The problem is a lack of evidence about the effectiveness of using content knowledge instruction and application experiences to develop students' digital literacy skills. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between content knowledge, application experiences, and knowledge and skill development for digital literacy skills. Using Marzano's art and science of teaching framework, the research questions were framed to explore the relationship between the content knowledge and application experience scores and mean growth …

Improving Motivation In Arabic Language Arts Classrooms Through Technology Integration, Rima Chamout

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many Lebanese teachers struggle to make the Arabic language enjoyable for their students to learn, therefore many Lebanese children use either French or English in their daily lives. Students' dislike of Arabic affects the way they relate to their society, which causes problems of belonging and identity—an important issue in Lebanese society. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how technology can motivate teachers' creativity in their teaching practices and explore student perceptions of learning the Arabic language with the support of technology. Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory and Dörnyei's L2 motivational self-system were used to understand how …

Instructional Faculty Perspectives On Connectivist Practices In Professional Development Activities, Gary Wayne Hunter Looney

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Collaboration among instructional faculty to improve technology use in their teaching is insufficiently studied. The research problem addresses this gap in the literature of faculty collaboration using information and communication technologies (ICT) via professional development courses. The purpose of this qualitative study was to elicit instructional faculty perspectives in a U.S. southeast regional community college about collaboration opportunities and ICT in professional development activities. This study utilized Siemens’ connectivism as the conceptual framework. The three research questions focused on opportunities for collaboration within professional development activities; perceived effectiveness of these activities that incorporated ICT with and without human interaction; and …

Aligning Workforce Training Center Curricula With Local Business Needs, Elizabeth P. Burns

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many cities in the United States have experienced job loss due to a shift from industrial-based to information and service economies, as well as the outsourcing of labor jobs to overseas locations. In the absence of industrial jobs once occupied by low-skilled workers, the problem that compelled this study was a perceived gap between the skills required by the employers who now hire such workers and the actual skills those workers have. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the espoused skills required by employers in a rural region of the southeastern United States to inform the …

Teacher Characteristics And Blended Learning Adoption In Stem-Focused Charter Schools, Omer Faruk Polat

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As an innovative teaching strategy, blended learning provides an environment where students are able to receive individualized instruction based on their needs. Even though the number of schools that adopt blended models of instruction has been increasing nationwide, the number of studies that explore the relationship between teacher characteristics and blended learning use is limited. This quantitative survey study explored the relationship between selected characteristics of teachers and the levels of blended learning adoption in charter schools with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focus. The concerns-based adoption model (CBAM) was used as a theoretical lens as it provided tools …

Instructional Design Techniques Used To Develop Virtual Reality-Based Safety Training In An Industrial Environment, Mia Da'nene Joe

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Instructional designers face the challenge of developing strong immersive virtual environments for education. However, there is very little research regarding the study of both the competence and practice of instructional design in the immersive virtual reality environment. The purpose of this qualitative Delphi study was to identify best practices that could be used by instructional designers when designing virtual reality-based safety training in order to improve safety competence and practice in the industrial environment. The conceptual framework for this study was based on the 3 primary groups of learning theory: behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Guiding questions were specific to the …

Effect Of Chemoscan Creation On High School Students' Attitudes Toward Science, Deborah Mcpherson Ezell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Whether the activity of creating digital art influences high school students' attitudes toward science is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine if the creation of artistic digital chemoscans by high school students influences their attitudes toward science. In this study, ninth grade high school students' attitudes toward science were examined after participating in the creation of chemoscans in their science classroom. The theory of affective domain helped explain the process that leads to a person's behavior toward a certain phenomenon in the educational setting. The research questions concerned the use of chemoscan creation in the physical science …

Strategies For Teaching Reading Comprehension To Children Of Migrant Workers, Dianne Pennington

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

A high percentage of migrant students are not meeting state content standards in readability and legibility within a small independent school district located in California's Central Valley. Prior research indicates that if a student is not proficient in reading skills by the 5th grade, academic success will not be attained effecting the student, parents, educators, and economics of the community. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative case study was to explore the teaching strategies that were used to help migrant students increase their reading comprehension skills. This study has its theoretical basis in the learning theories of Dewey, Slavin, and …

Teacher Twitter Participation For Reflection On Pedagogical Practices, Jeanette Delgado

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Classroom teachers' professional isolation can affect their attitude and performance each day. Research has shown that Twitter is a place where teachers connect, collaborate, and engage. However, few studies have explored teacher participation on Twitter in relation to teacher reflection. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how teacher professional participation on Twitter influences teacher reflection on pedagogical practices. The conceptual framework used in the study was a depth of reflection model and Fischer's richer ecologies of participation model. The research questions addressed what professional activities 9 K-12 teachers participated in, and how they used Twitter to …

Understanding Student Experiences Using Smartphones As Learning Tools, Kayle Gaviola

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

While mobile technology is ubiquitous in higher education, facilitating student engagement and learning through educational technology remains minimally understood. The problem this study addressed is the gap in research about how online graduate students utilized smartphone technology for learning and what factors led to their adoption of this technology. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore how mobile learning is being performed through smartphones by education graduate students in the online environment. The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) was used as the conceptual framework for this study. The research question asked how online …

Instructor Beliefs Related To Technology Use After Professional Development, Bethany Ann Croton

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Faculty in higher education often see themselves as researchers and identify less as instructors. The problem is that nearly every profession has embraced technology in new ways, except in the world of education and students need 21st-century skills to be competitive in the workforce. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore instructors' lived experiences and beliefs regarding teaching and technology integration before, during, and after completion of a professional development program at a Midwestern Tier 1 research institute. The study was framed by Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory and the sustainability education academic development framework. The research …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Weather, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Weather words and math words, Check the weather, Adjectives, Make a rain stick, Letter of the day - C, More or less, Ten more and ten less

Day 2 • Check the weather, Journal outside, Letter of the day - D, What's the problem?, Walk around the neighborhood, Skip, count, and hop

Day 3 • Check the weather, Match the pictures to the weather words, Letter of the day - E, How many suns?

Day 4 • Check the weather, Letter of the day - F, Look around your house, I wish …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Shapes And Feelings, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words - feelings and shapes, Let's move, Letter of the day - M

Day 2 • Check the weather, Feelings, Shapes around the house, Letter of the day - N

Day 3 • Check the weather, Matching feelings, Feelings change, Calm down yoga, Ordering objects, Letter of the day - O

Day 4 • Check the weather, Helping others feel better, Nouns, Sides and corners, Letter of the day - P

Day 5 • Check the weather, Sorting shapes, My weekly assignments, Letter of the day - Q, …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Transportation, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Suggested Weekly Schedule

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words - types of transportation, What is transportation?, Weekly words - verbs, What is a verb?, Letter of the day - R

Day 2 • Check the weather, Transportation book, Favorite way to travel, Count and graph, Letter of the day - S

Day 3 • Check the weather, Acting out verbs, Sort, Matching games - verbs, Letter of the day - T

Day 4 • Check the weather, Singular and plural, Patterns, Where would you go?, Letter of the day - U

Day 5 …

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Family, Sarah Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Family tree, Matching game, All kinds of families, My family tree, Graph: family members, My family by ___

Day 2 • Our five senses, My 5 sense at home, My 5 senses: math + addition, Get up and move!, My senses

Day 3 • My feelings, Feelings, Feelings poetry, Get up and move! yoga, My 5 senses: math, subtraction

Day 4 • Families by Aliyah, My family by ___, My family: math, multiplication, Get up and move!

Day 5 • My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer …

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My community, Matching game, My 5 senses: in my community

Day 2 • Geometric shapes, My community in geometric shapes, Get up and move!, Geometric shapes on my walk

Day 3 • My first community in geometric shapes, Compare and contrast: my communities, geometric shapes: perimeter and area, Get up and move! yoga

Day 4 • My communities by Mateo (Mexico and Nebraska), Compare and contrast: my communities, My communities writing, Get up and move!, Angels in my community

Day 5 • My community, My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

My Packet …

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Introductions & Feelings, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Where am I?, Feelings vocabulary, It's nice to meet you, About me, Daily journal

Day 2 • Feelings and time, How old are you?, Word unscramble, Opposite feelings, How are you feeling? comic strip, Daily journal

Day 3 • How do they feel?, How to solve a word search, Feelings word search, How are you feeling? comic strip, Daily journal

Day 4 • Sequencing comic strip, About them, Emoji dictionary, Daily journal

Day 5 • Essential question: how am I feeling today?, Daily journal

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Introductions [Students With Interrupted Formal Learning], Jessica Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Introduce yourself, Introduce someone else, Say and write letters: the English alphabet

Day 2 • Talking to a friend reading, Talking to a friend writing, Talking to a friend speaking

Day 3 • I am poem

Day 4 • New vocabulary, Say, Write, Categorize likes and dislikes

Day 5 • All about me

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Family, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Family vocabulary

Family vocabulary practice

Family vocabulary writing practice

Family names

This is my family

Physical characteristics vocabulary

Memory game

True or false?

My family tree

My relationships

Sentence frames

Actions

Action sentences

A family story

My family story

Gendered vocabulary

Physical descriptions

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential questions

Math numbers practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Let's move!

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: My Home, Tricia Ramaekers, Mary Royers, Claudia T. Yunes, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Rooms and chores in a house vocabulary cards

Vocabulary practice

Furniture and appliances vocabulary cards

Home objects vocabulary cards

Vocabulary Go Fish

Parts of an address

Writing a letter

How I feel about chores

Prepositions: where in the home?

Where in your home?

Phone numbers

Find the family member

Find the room

Who lives in your home?

What are they doing?

Draw and write: what are you doing?

Rooms in a house

Welcome to Sam's house!

Compare

Design a paper house

Vocabulary dictionary

Essential question

Where am I? What is a home?

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Time And Seasons [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Brooke David, Jessica Millen, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Daily schedule vocabulary, The English alphabet review

Day 2 • What's your favorite class?, Numbers 11-20

Day 3 • What time is it?, Write about time in your country, What time?, Ku Moo's schedule

Day 4 • Calendar vocabulary, Calendar reading, Days of the week, Seasons, Calendar questions

Day 5 • Weather vocabulary, Weather and seasons reading, Compare and contrast seasons, What's the weather like in your country?

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer Keys