Konstanze Edtstadler

University of Teacher Education Styria

Mathematics and German are two of the most elementary and important school subjects in Austria. Therefore, research on teaching and learning of these two subjects is a central task to which the academic disciplines of mathematics and German language education are dedicated. This issue aims to present articles taking up and analysing current researc...

Digitale Übungen sind – nicht zuletzt wegen der Covid-19 bedingten Umstellung auf virtuellen Unterricht – weit verbreitet. Allerdings unterliegen gerade kostenlose An- gebote oftmals keiner Qualitätskontrolle, weswegen es notwendig ist, dass Lehrkräf- ten eine Orientierung bei der Auswahl und Erstellung beziehungsweise Überarbei- tung von digitalen...

The paper depicts the Erasmus+ project “Individual DifferEntiated correct writing with Blogs - Individualizing and Implementing (IDeRBlog ii)”. IDeRBlog ii is a follow-up project evolving the result of IDeRBlog, a blogging platform for pupils aged eight and above. The project is an international cooperation between 3 countries in Europe. This paper...

This paper shows how Learning Analytic Methods are combined with German orthography in the IDeRBlog-project (www.iderblog.eu). After a short introduction to the core of the platform – the intelligent dictionary – we focus on the presentation and evaluation of a new training format. The aim of this format is, that pupils can train misspelled words i...

Die zunehmende Verbreitung von digitalen Übungen, auch im anfänglichen Schriftspracherwerb-also beim Erstlesen und Erstschreiben-erfordert eine kritisch-reflektierte Haltung so-wohl bei der Erstellung als auch beim Einsatz dieser Angebote. Da bislang keine kompakte Hilfestellung dafür verfügbar ist, wurde im Rahmen des SCHLEMEDI-Projektes (Schreibe...

The availability of personal digital devices in schools and at home are offering new ways of engaging students in the area of language learning. In this publication, we present a new approach on writing and blogging for children aged 8 to 12 years, which is especially helpful for those who struggle with the acquisition of German orthography. On a w...

According to the NMC Horizon Report (Johnson et al. in Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition, Publications Office of the European Union, The New Media Consortium, Luxembourg, Austin, 2014 [1]), data-driven learning in combination with emerging academic areas such as learning analytics has the potential to tailor students’ education to their n...

The article depicts the blogging platform IDeRBlog as an example of an Open Educational Resources Practice. The exercise databases of IDeRBlog are focussed in the context of orthography training. After briefly outlining Open Educational Resources an overview on how the exercises were researched and reviewed according to an established quality frame...

German orthography is known to be quite difficult to master, especially for primary-school pupils in writing texts [cf. 1]. In order to support children with the acquisition of German orthography, we are developing a web-based platform for German-speaking users based on learning analytics techniques. Our goal is to motivate pupils age 8 to 12 to im...

Purpose – Due to the important role of orthography in society, the project called IDeRBlog presented in this paper created a web-based tool to motivate pupils to write text as well as to read and to comment on texts written by fellow students. In addition, IDeRBlog aims to improve student’s German orthography skills and supports teachers and parent...

This issue examines several of these settings and present a wealth of evidence from often overlooked topics as varied as online formative assessment, intelligent dictionaries, inverted or flipped classrooms, interactive multilingual software and games, Language MOOCs, machine translation, and mobile language resources in six in-depth articles and t...

Ziel ist die Bereitstellung einer Internetplattform für Kinder zwischen acht und zwölf Jahren zum Verfassen von Texten. Aufgrund der interdisziplinären Entwicklung (Medieninformatik und -didaktik, Fachwissenschaft und -didaktik Deutsch, Schulkooperationen) werden erstmals Learning-Analytics-Verfahren im Bereich der Rechtschreibung angewandt. Dies g...

Data-driven learning in combination with emerging academic areas such as Learning Analytics (LA) has the potential to tailor students’ education to their needs [1]. The aim of this article is to present a web-based training platform for primary school pupils who struggle with the acquisition of German orthography. Our objective is the improvement i...

Many pupils struggle with the acquisition of the German orthography. In order to meet this struggle a web based platform for German speaking countries is currently developed. This platform aims to motivate pupils aged 8 to 12 to improve their writing and spelling competences. In this platform pupils can write texts in the form of blog entries conce...

Schreiben und Lesen ist eine der grundlegenden Fertigkeiten, die in der Schule vermittelt wird. Durch die Existenz von Computern, Tablets und Handys werden den Schülerinnen neue Zugange zum Schreib- und Leselernlernprozess ermöglicht. Diese greift das Erasmus + Projekt IDeRBlog auf, indem es für das Schreiben eine Internetplattform mit vielen Mögli...

Viele Jugendliche haben mit Lese- und Schreib-oder Rechtschreibproblemen zu kämpfen. Werden diese nicht erkannt und gefördert, wirkt sich das im Erwachsenenalter negativ aus [SMH08]. In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir ein Informationssystem für den deutschsprachigen Raum, das sich derzeit im Aufbau befindet und mit Hilfe von Learning Analytics versu...