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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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Talk Factory: Supporting "Exploratory Talk" around an Interactive Whiteboard in Primary School Science Plenaries
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Kerawalla, Lucinda; Petrou, Marilena; Scanlon, Eileen – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2013
Previous research into enhancing children's educational dialogues during group work has recognised the role of teachers in modelling dialogue and guiding their students' engagement in reasoning. Whole-class plenaries also offer teachers such opportunities but the technological support of dialogue in plenaries remains relatively unexplored. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes, Teaching Methods
From Promises to Practices: The Fate of Educational Software in the Home
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Kerawalla, Lucinda; Crook, Charles – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
Thirty-two families were given six market-leading, educational CD-ROMs each, and usage of them was logged over 11 weeks. These children and their parents were also interviewed on three occasions. Although parents and children were enthusiastic upon receipt of the software and envisaged that it would be a useful learning tool, children's use of…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Use Studies, Parent Attitudes