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Green, Lucy Santos – Knowledge Quest, 2014
The school library profession has begun to develop a reputation for tech-savviness. Several school librarians are nationally recognized technology leaders and present at conferences where instructional technology is at the forefront. Unfortunately, while school librarians have done a wonderful job of marketing their technological expertise in the…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, School Libraries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
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Schultz, Randy; Hultsman, John – Education, 2012
This brief essay takes up the question of what is meant by education by providing two possible and distinctly different interpretations of the concept. These distinctions are then extended by attempting to demonstrate how one of these interpretations is tied to a contemporary, technologically-based perspective on life in general, while the other…
Descriptors: Technology, Education, Educational Experience, Essays
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Kimbell, Richard – Design and Technology Education, 2011
In this article, the author relates his experience in a recent trip to Sweden. He was assigned to supervise a research student who is preparing a very interesting PhD about the role of the many different kinds of knowledge that have relevance to people in technology. His latest tutorial paper included a fascinating account of some examples of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students
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Abiko, Tadahiko – Research Papers in Education, 2011
This article comments upon James and Pollard's contribution in comparison with perspectives on pedagogy in Japan, where the concept has tended to be discredited by academics. TLRP's clusters of 10 principles are reviewed and found to be persuasive and meaningful, especially in relation to the following points: the emphasis on recognising…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Economic Status, Well Being, Foreign Countries
Senechal, Diana – American Educator, 2010
As long as there have been public schools, there have been reformers of public schools. All too often, they have insisted on sweeping changes; enamored of their bold, new idea, they haven't considered whether anything established ought to endure. The result? A century of faddish ideas, but little real progress. Among today's most vocal reformers…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Objectives
Munson, Lynne; Bornfreund, Laura – American Educator, 2010
This article presents the authors' critique of lessons proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). The authors initiate a discussion about content that they hope will play out in schoolhouses and statehouses across the country. They take on a different task: they present a handful of lesson ideas from P21 that could enhance studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ebbesen, Mette; Andersen, Svend; Besenbacher, Flemming – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
Research in nanotechnology has advanced rapidly in recent years. Several researchers, however, warn that there is a paucity of research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of nanotechnology, and they caution that ethical reflections on nanotechnology lag behind this fast developing science. In this article, the authors question this…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Ethics, Engineering Technology, Biology
Levinson, Paul – 1983
Technology contributes to the growth of human knowledge in five distinct, though overlapping, ways: (1) all technologies are material embodiments and thus more or less durable records of ideas that have survived some test with external reality; (2) telescopes, microscopes, and similar technologies extend external experience and knowledge to areas…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Evolution, Information Dissemination
Halkia, Krystallia – 2001
This paper discusses the difficulties in transforming the knowledge of science into school knowledge, which is based on the interconnection of scientists/researchers, teachers, and students. Some factors should be taken into consideration during the transformation of scientific knowledge into school knowledge, including the complexity of science…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Physics
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Cowley-Durst, Barbara; Christensen, Hal D.; Degler, Duane; Weidner, Douglas; Feldstein, Michael – Performance Improvement, 2001
Five knowledge management (KM) experts discuss answers to six fundamental issues of KM that address: a definition of knowledge and KM; relationship between business and KM; whether technology has helped the knowledge worker; relationship between learning, performance, knowledge, and community; the promise of knowledge ecology or ecosystem and…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Information Technology, Knowledge Level, Learning
Galuszka, Peter – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
One of the most prominent engineers and entrepreneurs in the country, Dr. Randal D. Pinkett keeps a high profile on issues related to minorities, technology and education. The holder of five degrees, Pinkett has built an academic record that includes a doctorate and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was also named a…
Descriptors: Internet, Minority Groups, Access to Computers, Access to Information
Yurumezoglu, Kemal – Online Submission, 2006
In this article, we studied the paradigm of observation which has been restructured since the beginning of modern sciences. In order to interpret this observation paradigm, an expression, "observation without seeing" was formulated. It was noticed that our interpretation of the observation depends on our knowledge and experiences. Finally, it was…
Descriptors: Observation, Models, Science Education, Knowledge Level
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Woodward, John P.; Carnine, Douglas W. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The article reviews Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction (ICAI), an area of artificial intelligence and notes its shortcomings for learning disabled students. It is suggested that emphasis on antecedent knowledge (important facts, concepts, rules, and/or strategies for the content area) and content analysis and design techniques would make…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Agassi, Joseph – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 1997
Scientific technology is an institutional complex of articulated knowledge and skills that depends on social responsibility. This paper addresses a theoretical approach through discussion of rational thought as a guide for rational action, rational thought as a form of rational action, and technology as a form of knowledge. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Technology, Knowledge Level, Philosophy
McCluskey, Lawrence – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Applies Gresham's Law ("bad money drives out good") to educators' overreliance on technology. Introducing more advanced "learning" technology without a concomitant emphasis on knowledge acquisition allows some students to operate at increasingly lower thought levels. Higher order thought processes will be displaced (and…
Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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