The K-12 educational technology value chain: Apps for kids, tools for teachers and levers for reform

Pierce, Glenn L.; Cleary, Paul F.

doi:10.1007/s10639-014-9357-1

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“…Serious educational games, in particular, have been shown to facilitate children's engagement in academic content in most subject areas and to promote transfer of content learned within the game to more academic tasks (Papanastasiou, Drigas, & Skianis, ; Pierce & Cleary, ). Serious educational games or serious games more generally may be characterized as those that are designed to educate, train, or persuade its players (see Blumberg, Almonte, Anthony, & Hashimoto, ); the latter of which we return to below when considering advergames.…”

Section: Media Use During Middle Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, it is increasingly recognized that games may enhance some of the core cognitive abilities, such as selective attention, that underlie the ability to acquire academic content or skills (Franceschini et al, 2017)-a process that has been dubbed "learning to learn" (Bavelier, Green, Pouget, & Schrater, 2012). Serious educational games, in particular, have been shown to facilitate children's engagement in academic content in most subject areas and to promote transfer of content learned within the game to more academic tasks (Papanastasiou, Drigas, & Skianis, 2017;Pierce & Cleary, 2016). Serious educational games or serious games more generally may be characterized as those that are designed to educate, train, or persuade .…”

Section: Media Use During Middle Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations

Blumberg

Deater‐Deckard

Calvert

et al. 2019

Social Policy Report

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We document the need to examine digital game play and app use as a context for cognitive development, particularly during middle childhood. We highlight this developmental period as 6‐ through 12‐year olds comprise a large swath of the preadult population that plays and uses these media forms. Surprisingly, this age range remains understudied with regard to the impact of their interactive media use as compared to young children and adolescents. This gap in knowledge about middle childhood may reflect strong and widely held concerns about the effects of digital games and apps before and after this period. These concerns include concurrent and subsequent influences of game use on very young children's and adolescents’ cognitive and socioemotional functioning. We highlight here what is currently known about the impact of media on young children and adolescents and what is not known about this impact in middle childhood. We then offer recommendations for the types of research that developmental scientists can undertake to examine the efficacy of digital games within the rapidly changing media ecology in which children live. We conclude with a discussion of media policies that we believe can help children benefit from their media use. Our hope is that this review will foster greater investigation of the cognitive socialization, as raised over 20 years ago by developmental psychologist and early games researcher Patricia Greenfield, that digital games serve during the middle childhood period, and childhood more generally.

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Section: Media Use During Middle Childhoodmentioning

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Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations

Blumberg

Deater‐Deckard

Calvert

et al. 2019

Social Policy Report

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“…There are two research goals: First, Cutting-edge technology is applied to the education industry, making the school students can understand the latest new technology development. Second, cultivating students' innovative and manual operation ability, and promoting the rapid development and transformation of China's education [1].This research mainly analyzed the 3D printing and VR technologies developed in recent years, also the application and prospect of these technologies in educational innovation were introduced.…”

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The Application and Prospect of 3D Printing and VR in Educational Innovation

Dai¹,

Hua²

2018

Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Seminar on Education Innovation and Economic Management (SEIEM 2017)

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Abstract-With the rapid development of 3D printing and virtual reality (VR) technology, they have been used in many fields, but they have just started in the field of education. Aimed at this problem, this paper introduces the principles and characteristics of 3D printing and VR technology, and illustrates related theoretical research and application in the field of education. It is suggested that scholars should speed up the research and development of the new technology and enhance their popularity. The related technology enterprises should increase the technical publicity work and provide professional training of 3D printing and VR technology. The multi-function virtual experiment teaching platform should be constructed and perfected as soon as possible. The application of 3D printing and VR technologies in education can accelerate the process of educational innovation, so as to achieve common progress for science, technology and education.

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“…Therefore, advancing technology in the school systems has been a significant problem. The addition of Internet technologies brought the price point of high speed Internet connections within reach of K-12 schools Parents, educators, and students were demanding services to be delivered via the Internet whether they were onsite or remote and using mobile and/or desktop devices (Pierce and Cleary, 2016). With cloud computing becoming more and more popular, K-12 educational institutions were looking at ways to benefit from combined resources (Hartmann, Braae, Pedersen, & Khalid, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With cloud computing becoming more and more popular, K-12 educational institutions were looking at ways to benefit from combined resources (Hartmann, Braae, Pedersen, & Khalid, 2016). These institutions, to get the most out of the small budgets they were dealt, felt pooling resources made good fiscal sense (Chandra & Malaya, 2012;Bennett & Weber, 2015;Hartmann, Braae et al, 2016;Pierce & Cleary 2016). As the demand for cloud computing increased, logically the need for security in the cloud became increasingly important (Reidenberg, Russell, Kovnot, Norton, Cloutier, & Alvarado, 2013).…”

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Secure Cloud Computing Infrastructure for K-12 Education

Justice¹,

McFarland²

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Justice has over 20 years experience in the computer and systems engineering field. Professor Justice is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP. She created the networking option and security option for CIT majors and a Network Security Certificate Program. She has also designed and modified many courses in networking and networking security. Professor Justice is noted for her creation of the Living Lab, an experiential learning environment where students gain real world experience running an IT business.Dr. Justice takes extreme pride and is a great innovator in the area of experiential learning and service. Experiential learning and service contributes to the integration of theory and application by creating an environment where the students learn by doing or apply their theory in service learning projects, practica, internships, games, and simulations. The Living Lab for CIT was created out of the need to provide a business environment for students to give them a taste of a "real" IT environment. A secondary purpose is to provide service to internal and external clients. The Living Lab has served many internal and external clients.Dr. Justice has consulted for and managed IT departments in small and medium sized businesses. Her areas of research include: experiential and service learning, information and security risk assessment, risk management, digital forensics, network security, network and systems engineering, network and systems administration, and networking and security course development. With cloud computing becoming more and more popular among businesses, there has become a higher demand for security in the cloud. K-12 school systems have a lack of IT resources and support to securely store and share data, thus making cloud services an attractive option. Additionally, there is increasing pressure on school systems to provide information for students and parents that require access to the information stored on school networks. Therefore, cloud services are a viable option for K-12 school systems to alleviate the administrative overhead and to provide access to necessary information for students and parents. This applied research project is an experimental design for addressing the issues that the K-12 school systems face. The secure cloud project consisted of four databases and three nodes. The databases were Keystone, Glance, Nova, and Neutron. First, the Keystone database handled the identity service. The second database was the image client, Glance. Images were launched through this database following a correct authentication token. The third database was Nova. Nova handled all the compute services for the controller and compute node. Fourth was the Neutron database service, which handled all the networking agents that traveled through all three nodes. There were three nodes; a compute node; a controller node; and a networking node to run the cloud. The controller node is the first to be used by verifying identity of the user. It then travels through the management network t...

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The K-12 educational technology value chain: Apps for kids, tools for teachers and levers for reform

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations

Digital Games as a Context for Children's Cognitive Development: Research Recommendations and Policy Considerations

The Application and Prospect of 3D Printing and VR in Educational Innovation

Secure Cloud Computing Infrastructure for K-12 Education

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