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Johnson, Nicola F. – E-Learning, 2009
This article highlights the practice of a group of New Zealand teenagers who are considered by their family and themselves to be technological experts. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital, this text identifies and discusses the cyber-relations that constitute the practice in the field of home computer use for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Use Studies
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Tomlinson, Bill; Baumer, Eric; Yau, Man Lok; Carpenter, F. Lynn; Black, Rebecca – E-Learning, 2008
Constructivist pedagogical approaches have become common in many science curricula. However, while sciences such as physics and chemistry lend themselves to compelling opportunities for interaction (explosions, reactions, objects in motion), certain systems sciences are more challenging for learners to engage with on a short time scale. Applying…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Informal Education, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods
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Bruce, Bertram; Lin, Ching-Chiu – E-Learning, 2009
A youth community informatics (YCI) research project intersected an inquiry learning model with the making of audiovisual podcasts to foster personal growth and community engagement in a group of Mexican American youth enrolled in an afterschool program. Specifically, the article describes the cycle of inquiry together with the development of a…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Mexican Americans, Inquiry, Citizen Participation
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Journell, Wayne – E-Learning, 2007
This article addresses the continuing digital divide in public education, one that defines itself largely along geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural lines. The article refutes the idea that the digital divide is dwindling due to increasing access to technology within the United States, instead focusing on digital literacy and cultural barriers…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Public Education, Access to Computers
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Reifschneider, Marina Becker – E-Learning, 2006
This article provides an overview of distance education in Brazil and compares it with that in the United States. It presents a brief historical perspective of private and public initiatives in Brazil and concentrates on present governmental projects and educational policies guiding distance education, with emphasis on higher education. Deficits…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Supply and Demand
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; McClay, Jill Kedersha – E-Learning, 2007
This article presents the results of the initial stage of research on grades 4-8 teachers' writing instruction within rural and urban contexts across Canada. Teachers' goals and their use of digital technologies and multimedia are examined within rural and urban schools in five eastern provinces. Through half-hour telephone interviews with 54…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Social Class, Writing Instruction
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Knobel, Michele – E-Learning, 2006
This article focuses on the social practices of propagating and circulating memes within Internet environments as a significant dimension of cultural production and transmission. Memes (pronounced "meems") are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and which directly shape and transmit key actions and…
Descriptors: Internet, Cultural Influences, Social Development, Definitions