CALL FOR PAPERS
The 16 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT2016
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Austin, Texas, USA, July 25-28 2016
http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2016/
Deadline: January 18, 2016 (23:59 GMT -10:00, Hawaii Standard Time)
Track 11 Technology-Enhanced Learning of Thinking Skills (TELoTS@ICALT2016)
Track Program Chairs
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Wenli Chen, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Sridhar Iyer, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (sri@iitb.ac.in)
Chuck Hodges, Georgia Southern University, USA
Sahana Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
(sahanamurthy@iitb.ac.in)
Amali Weerasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia
Track Description and Topics of Interest:
The goal of this track is to provide a platform for researchers and educators to
present their research on how technology can be used to develop and assess
learners’ pan-domain thinking skills, which are cognitive processes that human
beings apply for sense-making and problem-solving. Thinking skills have been
identified and characterized in a variety of ways, such as, 21st Century skills, ABET
student learning outcomes, science process skills, and computational thinking
skills, to name a few. Regardless of the discipline, development of thinking skills
has been shown to be crucial for students’ success in the 21st century workplace.
Examples of such skills include critical thinking, engineering design, problem
formulation and solving, creation and revision of scientific models, decision
making, experimentation skills, data analysis and so on.
We welcome a variety of topics and research issues related to the design,
development and evaluation of technology enhanced learning of thinking skills.
Topics include:
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Learning environments for development of thinking skills
Techniques for integration of ICT to promote thinking skills
Systems / tools aimed at explicitly developing thinking skills
Pedagogical approaches and teaching-learning strategies for developing
thinking skills
Curriculum design for the development of thinking skills
Assessment of thinking skills – techniques, tools and innovative approaches
using technology
Methodological issues and innovative methods related to research in TELoTS
Curriculum design for the development of thinking skills
Models, theories and frameworks underpinning TELoTS
Transfer of thinking skills across domains and situations; techniques for
fostering transfer; methods of assessing transfer of thinking skills
A paper submitted to the TELoTS track is expected to contain at least two of the
following:
 Design - This could be the description of a prototype system, or innovative
curricular material, or model, for development of a thinking skill.
 Deployment - This could be a pilot or a large-scale deployment of
system/material, along with some evidence of effectiveness.
 Evaluation - This should be a formal educational research study, having strong
empirical basis, drawing on relevant research methods.
Members of Track Program Committee
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Amir Shareghi Najar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Ashok Basawapatna, SUNY Old Westbury.
Ben du Boulay, University of Sussex, UK.
Christina Steiner, University of Graz, Austria.
Daner Sun, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
Hsin-Kai Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
Janice Gobert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA.
Longkai Wu, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
Lung Hsiang Wong, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
M. Sasikumar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Madhuri Mavinkurve, Thankur College of Engineering.
Michael Jacobson, University of Sydney, Australia.
Philip Winne, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Ramkumar Rajendran, NEC, Japan.
Roger Azevedo, McGill University, Canada.
S. Ramani, Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India.
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Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR,
India
Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada.
Uttama Lahiri, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India