TIELab stands for Technology-in-Education Laboratory. Its primary mission is to discover and develop ways in which technology can serve learning. TIELab projects are characterized by hands-on, authentic and inquiry-based learning. We invite you to peruse the TIELab projects and learning tools and hope you will contact us with any comments or questions.

      
::Current Projects::

The History Lab: (go !)
Imagine a science lab designed for learning history instead of chemistry: Where students are examining 200-year old documents rather than mixing chemical compounds, where they are inquiring into the meaning of these sources, drawing inferences and formulating hypotheses. The History Lab is both an inquiry-based pedagogy and a learning tool designed to make learning about history more an act of interpretation and less of memorization.

RIBIT: (go!)
RIBIT (the Reusable Internet-Based Inquiry Template) is designed to help teachers build in-class activities that cultivate students' ability to experience insights. The idea is straightforward. Instead of explaining concepts to students give them the raw materials, a guiding question and some "play" time, and see if they can come to these concepts, or others, on their own. Rooted in constructivist thinking, RIBIT is a tool that enables teachers to build student inquiry activities and lessons around resources they find on the Internet.

Technology & Curriculum Database (TaC): (go!)
When was the last time you met up with educational technology colleagues from your area to share your favorite lesson plans and other curricular uses of technology? Most of us work in isolation and maybe get out to one conference a year to share and learn from others. TaC is designed to help reduce this isolation by facilitating the sharing of all of our favorite curricular uses of technology.

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