Integrating Technology: Lens on Climate Change: Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Climate Change Effects

Journal Article | September 2017

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which…

Engaging Middle School Students With Technology: Using Real-Time Data to Test Predictions in Aquatic Ecosystems

Journal Article | June 2011

Take advantage of teen internet savvy and redirect students' online travels toward exploration of our environment through streaming real-time data (RTD). Studies have shown that using RTD adds relevancy to students'…

Research on the River: High school and university students use technology and integrated science to study the quality of the James River

Journal Article | August 2000

This project—the JAMES (Joining Across Miles Environmental Systems)—gave high school students the chance to do research involving technology and integrated science and allowed university science methods students the…

Using new technologies

Blog Post | March 2014

Watching children and teenagers use computers, tablets, and smartphones, it’s easy to assume that these digital natives are very familiar with all of the new technologies. I’ve found that while they know what relates to…

Archive: NSTA Author Series: Using Daily Life Probes to Uncover Students' Ideas in Engineering & Technology, December 9, 2020

Web Seminar | October 2020

In this web seminar, participants will learn how to use purposefully designed, engaging questions to elicit and address students’ commonly held ideas about core concepts and practices in engineering and technology…

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

Journal Article | December 2022

Evolutionary Technology: Using Google Earth, Cyber Databases, and Geotagged Photos to Enhance Students' Scientific Practices and Understanding of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Journal Article | January 2014

Use the latest information and communication technology to explore evolution a world away.

Research and Teaching: Using Internet Class Notes and PowerPoint in the Physical Geology Lecture: Comparing the Success of Computer Technology With Traditional Teaching Techniques

Journal Article | February 2000

The Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU) study compared student performance in physical geology lecture classes using a traditional method of presentation with that of using Internet notes and PowerPoint lecture…

An Integrated STEM and Computing Curriculum for the Human-Technology Frontier

Journal Article | April 2021

The Seemingly Endless Uses of Waves

Journal Article | June 2020