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Richard Canevez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have achieved a global reach, particularly in social groups within the 'Global North,' such as those within the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. It has produced the need for a computing workforce, and increasingly, diversity is becoming an integral aspect of that workforce. Today,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Information Technology, Communications
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Li, Jia; Cummins, Jim; Deng, Qizhen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This study examined university undergraduate English language learners' (ELLs) perspectives on an intervention, Word Matters, that aimed to enhance functional academic vocabulary learning critical to their cognitive academic language proficiency development (Cummins, 1989), a challenge faced by many ELLs in English-medium universities. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Student Attitudes
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Lapham, Steven S.; Hanes, Peter; Turner, Thomas N.; Clabough, Jeremiah C.; Cole, William – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2013
This issue's "Middle Level Learning" section presents two articles. The first is "Harriet Tubman: Emancipate Yourself!" (by Steven S. Lapham and Peter Hanes). "Argo," which won the 2012 Oscar for best picture, was about a daring escape of six U.S. diplomats from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis. Now imagine the…
Descriptors: Slavery, Change Agents, Females, African American History
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Levesque, Stéphane – Canadian Social Studies, 2006
This paper deals with the impact of current digital technology revolution on history education. Based on four developments engendered by this revolution (liberalization of historical knowledge, intensification of digital archives, web-based communication, and active computer-based learning), it argues that digital history has the potential to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, History Instruction, History, Inquiry