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Cyber-Relations in the Field of Home Computer Use for Leisure: Bourdieu and Teenage Technological Experts
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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
Positive to a Degree: The Effects of ICT Use in New Zealand Secondary Schools
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Lai, Kwok-Wing; Pratt, Keryn – Computers in the Schools, 2008
A key question for educational researchers is whether information and communication technology (ICT) use enhances teaching and learning. In this paper, the authors report findings from a three-year study (2001-2004) investigating teaching and learning effects of ICT use in 26 secondary schools in New Zealand as perceived by teachers. The most…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
Developing Digital Information Literacy in Higher Education: Obstacles and Supports
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Jeffrey, Lynn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Kelly, Oriel; Penman, Merrolee; Coburn, Dawn; McDonald, Jenny – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Self Efficacy
Turning Teachers on to Computers: Evaluation of a Teacher Development Program.
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Gilmore, Alison M. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1995
Evaluates a program designed to introduce educational uses of computers to teachers and to facilitate their integration into classroom activities. The model involved teachers in a school-based action-research project supported by visits from resource personnel with clusters of teachers attending two meetings to evaluate experiences, share ideas,…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Learning by Bytes: Computers in the Classroom. Evaluation of the Learning Enhancement with Information Technology Project.
Boyd, Sally – 1997
This evaluation of the Learning Enhancement with Information Technology project examined the impact of the introduction of an information technology initiative on students' and teachers' attitudes toward computing and students' learning. The evaluation was designed as a case study involving Palmerston North Girls' High School (PNGHS) and a matched…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
Computers in the Primary Classroom: Barriers to Effective Use
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Thomas, Michael O. J.; Vela, Carolyn – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The computer has been in the world's mathematics classrooms for some period of time now, but with varying degrees of implementation in the promotion of student learning. In this paper we describe longitudinal research over seven years which has investigated how primary school teachers actually make use of computers in their mathematics classroom,…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Computer Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction