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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hirsh, Alon; Levy, Sharona T. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2013
The present research addresses a curious finding: how learning physical principles enhanced athletes' biking performance but not their conceptual understanding. The study involves a model-based triathlon training program, Biking with Particles, concerning aerodynamics of biking in groups (drafting). A conceptual framework highlights several…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Adolescents, Athletes, Physics
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Taylor, Katie Headrick; Hall, Rogers – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2013
Personal mobility is a mundane characteristic of daily life. However, mobility is rarely considered an opportunity for learning in the learning sciences, and is almost never leveraged as relevant, experiential material for teaching. This article describes a social design experiment for spatial justice that focused on changes in the personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Americans, Physical Activities, Design
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Yerushalmy, Michal; Naftaliev, Elena – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2011
In an attempt to study the emerging questions about design of mathematical tasks that could support the solving of challenging problems, we designed two settings of interactive diagrams that share an example represented as an animation of multi-process motion but differ in their organizational functions. The interactive settings, each comprising…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving