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The role of relevance in future teachers’ utility value and interest toward technology
Seeing the relevance of tasks for future use is important for developing value and interest in them. We employed a pre- and post-test …
Ugur Kale, Mete Akcaoglu
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Contextual factors influencing access to teaching computational thinking
This study attempts to determine whether teachers' access to computational thinking (CT) and CT technologies varies by rurality (rural …
Ugur Kale, Mete Akcaoglu, Theresa Cullen, Debbie Goh
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Using Facebook groups to support social presence in online learning
Building interpersonal connections in asynchronous online learning is important, but it is harder to achieve compared to face-to-face …
Mete Akcaoglu, Eunbae Lee
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Computational what? Relating computational thinking to teaching
Computational thinking is one of the skills critical for successfully solving problems posed in a technology driven and complex …
Ugur Kale, Mete Akcaoglu, Theresa Cullen, Debbie Goh, Leah Devine, Nathan Calvert, Kara Grise
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Teaching systems thinking through game design
In this mixed-methods study, we examined if students benefitted from a game design course offered during an enrichment hour in terms of …
Mete Akcaoglu, Ph.D., Lucy Santos Green
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Problem Solving and Teaching How to Solve Problems in Technology-Rich Contexts
Problem solving is perhaps the key characteristic that makes us human. Given the kinds of problems that we face in a competitive …
Ugur Kale & admin
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Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag
The existing work on teacher-focused Twitter hashtags typically frames each hashtag as a single, unified phenomenon, thereby collapsing …
Spencer P Greenhalgh, Joshua M Rosenberg, K Bret Staudt Willet, Matthew J Koehler, Mete Akcaoglu, Ph.D.
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Digital divide among higher education faculty
Digital divide centers on access to various dimensions of information and communication technology (ICT) including physical access, …
Kamal Ahmed Soomro, Ugur Kale, Reagan Curtis, admin & Malayna Bernstein
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Understanding children’s problem-solving strategies in solving game-based logic problems
Problem solving is an essential skill for students to be successful in life and careers. Students need to use efficient strategies to …
Mete Akcaoglu, Ph.D., Lucas J Jensen, Daisy Gonzalez
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An Exploration of Factors Impacting Middle School Students’ Attitudes Toward Computer Programming
Computer programming is becoming an essential skill for young students regardless of their education or career goals. Therefore, for …
Mete Akcaoglu, Ph.D., JM Rosenberg, CB Hodges, JC Hilpert
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