PENSACOLA, Fla. --A research institute here is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn. The ...

Concept maps begin with a main idea and then branch out to show how that main idea can be broken down into specific topics. Used as a learning and teaching technique, concept mapping visually ...

Today I am trying to plan out the first three 20-minute episodes for the summer calculus class. Lesson 1 is about the concept of the function, basic terminology, and how to compute function values ...

Alexandra Overby is sleuthing the selfies she assigned to her Digital Photo 1 class during the first week of school this year at East High School here. Student A fluently describes the statement he is ...

Higher-order thinking is crucial to inquiry learning. It is important to investigate how students think in inquiry contexts. Given the tacit nature of higher-order thinking, cognitive maps (e.g., ...

Mentor teachers' practical knowledge often remains implicit for the student teachers they supervise. Practical knowledge consists of various cognitions that clarify mentors' own lessons and the ...