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Suzannie K. Y. Leung; Kimburley W. Y. Choi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study aimed at exploring kindergarten teachers' perceptions and usage of digital devices in their classrooms. A multiple case study (n = 4) was conducted to investigate how in-service experienced (n = 22) and novice (n = 24) kindergarten teachers interpreted the functional significance of digital devices, including the needs and challenges…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Films, Teacher Attitudes
Evans, Julie A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2022
"Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education" explores an emerging cohort of students that are self-directing their learning around interest-driven topics, the tools they're using to scaffold these experiences, and their motivations for these out-of-school learning behaviors. Readers will…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Kindergarten
Jane Asantewaa Appiah-Okyere – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the interplay of digital capacity building (skills) and infrastructure (Internet access) in shaping teaching and learning practices in a rural community. Educators in rural areas, especially in developing nations, face difficulties in accessing digital resources and Internet connectivity, which hinder the integration of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Rural Schools
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Blikstein, Paulo; Kabayadondo, Zaza; Martin, Andrew; Fields, Deborah – Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Background: As the maker movement is increasingly adopted into K-12 schools, students are developing new competences in exploration and fabrication technologies. This study assesses learning with these technologies in K-12 makerspaces and FabLabs. Purpose: Our study describes the iterative process of developing an assessment instrument for this…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Engineering Education, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship
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Wen, Yun, Ed.; Wu, Yi-ju, Ed.; Qi, Grace, Ed.; Guo, Siao-Cing, Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Chelliah, Shobhana, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Lan, Yu-Ju, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book uncovers the important issues in language learning and teaching in the intelligent, digital era. "Social connectivity" is a contemporary style of learning and living. By engaging in the connectivity of physical and digital worlds, how essential parts of language learning and teaching can be achieved? How can the advanced…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Technology
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Doliopoulou, Elsie; Rizou, Charitomeni – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Play is both a right of children and a learning method for preschoolers and school aged children. It is influenced by all forms of social change on a local and global level. The rapid pace of life and the competitive modern lifestyle, particularly in western societies, are leading to a decrease in spontaneous play and to its replacement by more…
Descriptors: Play, Leisure Time, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study investigated the challenges and opportunities associated with the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the early childhood curriculum in Hong Kong kindergartens. Thirty-one principals completed questionnaires before they implemented a new curriculum initiative plan that involved the integrating of ICT…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Learning Processes