Teaching Newton's Laws with the iPod Touch in Conceptual Physics

Angela M. Kelly

Physics Teacher Vol. 49, No. 4 (April 2011) pp. 202–205

One of the greatest challenges in teaching physics is helping students achieve a conceptual understanding of Newton's laws. I find that students fresh from middle school can sometimes recite the laws verbatim ("An object in motion stays in motion..."...

Discovering Civil Discourse: Using the Online Public Sphere for Authentic Assessment

Angela M. McGowan; Kelly Soczka Kaiser

Communication Teacher Vol. 28, No. 3 (2014) pp. 170–176

The objective of the exercise described here is for students to be able to recognize Habermas's public sphere theory and analyze public deliberation occurring within the online public sphere. After completing this unit activity, students will...

Using Hypermedia: Effects of Prior Knowledge

David A. Last; Angela M. O'Donnell; Anthony E. Kelly

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 488–491

The study reported here was an interview study of low and high prior knowledge students with strong or weak goals exploring a hypertext stack. We examined the influences of a student’s prior knowledge and desired goal on the difficulties and...

The Effects of Prior Knowledge and Goal Strength on the Use of Hypertext

David A. Last; Angela M. O’Donnell; Anthony E. Kelly

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 10, No. 1 (2001) pp. 3–25

The study examined the influences of a student's prior knowledge and desired goal on the difficulties and benefits associated with learning from hypertext. Twelve students from an undergraduate course in educational psychology par-ticipated in the...

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