This section of the resources contains peer-reviewed, scholarly research articles contributed and written by SimSchool researchers, professors, and students.
simSchool: A complex systems framework for modeling teaching and learning - Gibson
SimSchool, a network-based training and assessment application for teachers, offers a game-like computational framework that represents the actions and dynamics of classroom teaching and learning. The online simulator offers teachers transferable practice in key instructional planning, diagnostic and interpersonal communication activities involved in teaching in a classroom environment.
Telementoring as a Collaborative Agent for Change - Friedman, Zibit, Coote
This case study explores the effectiveness of telementoring as a vehicle for preservice teachers to hone skills in the teaching of writing, to establish a mentoring relationship with urban high school students, and to help struggling writers improve writing skills necessary for student achievement. Inherent in this research was the goal to develop a collaborative model between the university and the high school for using technology to improve “at-risk” urban students’ skills in writing.
Simulating teaching and learning - international panel - Baek, Cheong, Christensen, Gibson, Kim, Knezek, Vandersall
This panel presentation at SITE 2007 offers three perspectives on the subject of simulating teaching and learning by researchers and simulation developers from the US and Korea who are engaged in a multiyear research and development collaboration to produce games and simulations that train, support and enhance a teacher’s knowledge and skills.
Cognitive and conceptual assessment frameworks for simulating teaching and learning - Baek, Christensen, Gibson, Girod, Knezek
Research and development of digital games and simulation-based teacher training tools has begun to outline frameworks for representing the processes of teaching and learning. In order to develop knowledge and skills of teaching through use of these new technology tools, and since teaching is concerned with student learning, new computational models of cognition, assessment, and teaching actions have been developed.
simSchool: An instructional technology for teacher education - Christensen, Gibson, Knezek
Stemming out of a “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology” PT3 project, simSchool is an online simulation of a classroom that offers a virtual practicum for preservice and early year teachers. It was released for public use on March 1, 2006 and has been piloted in 8 higher education institutions with over 200 preservice students.
Grounded metadata: Validating a semantic web vocabulary for technical assistance to educators - Knapp, Kurowski, Dexter, Gibson, McLaughlin
Abstract: Development of metadata (data about data) can be challenging because the vocabulary needs to be reliable yet flexible and extensible, locally relevant yet widely applicable and interoperable, and both machine and human readable. This article describes the process of creating “grounded metadata” for education, by engaging experts from technical assistance organizations, and the challenges the project faced.
simSchool – The Game of Teaching
This article is the print version on the online article available at Horizon's Innovate: Journal of Online Education, at this address: http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=173
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