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Doing What We Teach: Promoting Digital Literacies for Professional Development through Personal Learning Environments and Participation
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Laakkonen, Ilona – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Despite the proliferation of social media, few learners make effective use of digital technology to support their learning or graduate with the skills necessary for developing and communicating their expertise in the knowledge-driven networked society of the digital age. This article makes use of the concept of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Computer Literacy, Technological Literacy
Domestication of a Laptop on a Wireless University Campus: A Case Study
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Vuojarvi, Hanna; Isomaki, Hannakaisa; Hynes, Deirdre – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This study reports how university students domesticate their personal laptops at the beginning of studies on a wireless campus. The aim was to examine how students integrate the laptop into their personal education experience, what sort of processes were experienced to render the laptop useful and meaningful, and how gender and IT proficiency…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Learning Experience, Case Studies, Laptop Computers
Factors that Influence Student Teacher's Interest to Achieve Educational Technology Standards
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Kadijevich, Dj.; Haapasalo, Lenni – Computers & Education, 2008
Bearing in mind the importance of a transition from teacher-centred, lecture-based teaching to student-centred, technology-based learning, this study examined teachers' interest to achieve educational technology standards ("Interest") in terms of their computer attitude ("Attitude"), computer experience ("Experience")…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Lecture Method, Student Centered Curriculum, Foreign Countries
ICT in Initial Teacher Training: Research Review. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 38
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Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Rizza, Caroline – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This research review reports on articles presenting empirical research in the area of how teacher-training institutions work on preparing future teachers for the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their future classrooms. It was conducted mainly in English and French and covers research in 11 OECD-countries during…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Constructing Digital Portfolios: Teachers Evolving Capabilities in the Use of Information and Communications Technology.
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Kankaanranta, Marja – Teacher Development, 2001
Investigated Finnish kindergarten teachers' evolving information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities in the construction and use of digital web portfolios. Teacher surveys indicated that access, competence, and motivation in ICT use intertwined during diverse cycles of portfolio development. Teachers had an enormous need for formal…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology
Information and Communication Technologies in Finnish Early Childhood Environments.
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Kankaanranta, Marja; Kangassalo, Marjatta – Childhood Education, 2003
Describes the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Finnish early childhood environments from three perspectives. Examines Finnish national policies on the use of ICT; indicates the prevailing state of ICT use, according to results of international and national surveys; and presents some innovative practices involving the use…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Computer Use, Computer Uses in Education