Balancing Digital and Hands-On Learning
The source provides information about a website titled “Tech-nically Monique”, which appears to be focused on educational technology and instructional design, featuring sections on online learning, leadership, and resources. A significant portion details a rough draft of an article titled “Integrating Digital Lessons In The Classroom: Strategies For Balancing Technology and Hands-On Learning”, discussing the challenges and effective strategies for combining digital and physical learning methods, citing research and theoretical foundations like Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Additionally, the source lists proposed publications for the article, outlining the submission requirements for Edutopia, Technology Pedagogy, and Education Journal, and Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education. The draft article itself proposes a balanced model based on combining digital tools with tactile activities and discusses the benefits of approaches like the flipped classroom and merging digital and physical manipulatives, supported by specific study findings and references.
References
Bay-Williams, J., & Kling, G. (2021). Digital vs. physical manipulatives in proportional reasoning. Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School, 26(3), 154–160. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTMS.26.3.0154
Gonzalez, J. (2020, March 15). The tech-tactile balance: 5 rules for middle school teachers. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/tech-tactile-balance-5-rules-middle-school-teachers
Mayer, R. E. (2020). Cognitive theory of multimedia learning (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Roehling, P. V., & Bredow, C. A. (2021). Beyond the flip: Optimizing flipped classrooms in secondary math. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(4), 712–725. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000123
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