Teaching Prehistory through Constructive Software – An Evaluation of Learning

Eleni Kariotou; Theodora Cavoura; Helen Stavridou

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5650–5655

“Stone Age” is constructive software tailored for 3rd grade elementary school students aimed at teaching prehistory. Its design and structure were based on the results of a diagnostic study that was carried out with the purpose of brining to light...

Topics: Software, Elementary Education, Students

Historical Text Comprehension Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System

Maria Grigoriadou; Grammatiki Tsaganou; Theodora Cavoura

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 4 (2005) pp. 31–41

The Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System (ReTuDiS) is a system for learner modelling historical text comprehension through reflective dialogue. The system infers learners' cognitive profiles and constructs their learner models. Based on the learner...

Learning History in the Constructive Hypermedia Environment of KASTALIA

Theodora Cavoura; Grammatiki Tsaganou; Maria Grigoriadou; Dimitra Koutra; Maria Samarakou

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2389–2390

In this paper we present the research results of learning history using KASTALIA compared by the traditional teaching method using the school textbook in electronic format. KASTALIA is an educational hypermedia environment for learning archaic...

Topics: Students, Research Methods, Social Studies, Teaching Methods