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Why this app: Can a video-based intervention help parents identify quality education apps?
Researchers recommend that parents look for five benchmarks as the indicators of quality educational apps (i.e., scaffolding, curriculum, development team, feedback, learning theory), yet research suggests that parents undervalue some of these ben...
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Why this app: Can a video‐based intervention help parents identify quality educational apps?
Researchers recommend that parents look for five benchmarks as indicators of quality educational apps (ie, scaffolding, curriculum, development team, feedback, learning theory), yet results show that parents undervalue some of these benchmarks. Th...
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3D printing as an educational technology: theoretical perspectives, learning outcomes, and recommendations for practice
3D printing is an emerging educational technology that is said to prepare learners for a more technologically designed world. In this review, 3D printing studies are analyzed to identify the dominant theoretical approaches and learning outcomes as...
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Fostering Adolescents' Self-Directed Learning Through Making: The Development of an Integrated Model.
Based on the results of a systematic review of studies that targeted self-directed learning (SDL), a new framework for using making-activities in high school classrooms is proposed that integrates all of the key characteristics of SDL and organize...
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Fostering adolescents self-directed learning through making: The development of an integrated model.
With the aim of developing a comprehensive framework to enhance self-directed learning (SDL) in adolescents via maker tools (e.g., 3D printing), a systematic review of studies that targeted SDL was conducted. Three main theories (self-regulated, i...
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Using 3D Printing to Foster Self-Directed Learning in Adolescents: Initial Insights from School-Based Research.
Adolescents in grades 7-9 and 11 (n = 56) at an all-girls private high school participated in a 6-day 3D-printing activity designed to enhance their self-directed learning. Pre-and-post-test questionnaires and a Design Process Notebook, which also...
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Maternal Dietary Deficiency in Choline Reduced Levels of MMP-2 Levels in Blood and Brain Tissue of Male Offspring Mice
Abstract
Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of disability and death globally, with a rising incidence in younger age groups. It is well known that maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation is vital for the early neurodevelopment of ...
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