Li-Ling Chen

Impacts of Flipped Classroom in High School Health Education.

As advanced technology increasingly infiltrated into classroom, the flipped classroom has come to light in secondary educational settings. The flipped classroom is a new instructional approach that intends to flip the traditional teacher-centered classroom into student centered. The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom instructional pedagogy in a ninth grade health education class.

Improving Teachers' Teaching with Communication Technology.

With the growing needs to address the challenges that new teachers face and the popularity of social networking technology, this study explores how to increase the effectives of teaching through the use of such technology, and how the technology may serve to promote collaboration and open new resources of support in public education. In this article, a definition of social networking technology will be provided. A review of literature will also be presented. Significance of this study will be addressed. Research questions, methodology, and discussion will also be provided. Finally, suggestions and a conclusion will be made.

The Daily Text: Increasing Parental Involvement in Education with Mobile Text Messaging

Numerous educational researches have showed that parental involvement in schools is highly correlated with higher student performance (Griffith, 1996; Jeynes, 2005, 2012; Sheldon, 2003; Stevenson & Baker, 1987; Williams, & Sanches, 2012). The research results are so evident that schools are now required by law to implement parental involvement provisions in order to receive certain federal funds, such as No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. With the rapid advancement in technology, strategies to increase parental involvement in education have been moving from print formats to digital formats. This article is to investigate whether the use of text messaging via cell phones to communicate between teachers and parents has measurable results on the academic performance of students. The study results show that on its own, the use of text messaging does not significantly change student performance; however, texting may have other benefits to teachers and students.

Digital Multimedia Instruction: Past, Present, and Future

This article reviews the background and technology features of digital multimedia instruction, an instruction which offers window-based graphics. Benefits and limitations of digital multimedia instruction are discussed. The applications and future trends are described. The major areas of applications are identified: education, training, and entertainment.