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Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Fulgham, Susan M. – Educational Technology, 2016
Sigmund Tobias came to the United States in 1948, after his family had fled to China from the Holocaust in Europe. His Memoir ("Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai") describes that part of his life. He settled in New York, where he completed his B.A. and M.S. in School Psychology from the City College of New York, and a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interviews, Leaders, Computer Games
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Brown, Timothy T. – Journal of Management Education, 2016
In this issue, Cavanaugh, Giapponi, and Golden (2016) have discussed the new prominent role of digital devices in the lives of students; the possible impact of these widely-used technologies on developing, learning minds; and the relevance of new cognitive neuroscience research and technologies for better understanding the potential effects of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Demski, Jennifer – T.H.E. Journal, 2012
When it comes to implementing a large-scale 1-to-1 computing initiative, deciding which device students will use every day to support their learning requires a significant amount of thought and research. Laptop, netbook, Chromebook, tablet--each device has enough similarities to make the decision seem easy, but enough differences to make a big…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Computers, Laptop Computers
Rushkoff, Douglas – School Library Journal, 2011
When asked what Facebook is for, kids will say that it's there to help them make friends. The kids the author celebrated in his early books as "digital natives," capable of seeing through all efforts of big media and marketing, have actually proven less able to discern the integrity of the sources they read and the intentions of the programs they…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Librarians, Teachers, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Turkle, Sherry – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
The author has been a witness to the birth of the personal computer culture, with its intense one-on-one relationships with machines, and then to the development of the networked culture, with people using the computer to communicate with each other. In her most recent work on the revolutions in social networking and sociable robotics, she sees a…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Computer Networks, Social Networks, Computers
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Chmiel, Marjee – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
This paper is a response to "Challenges and Opportunities: Using a science-based video game in secondary school settings" by Rachel Muehrer, Jennifer Jenson, Jeremy Friedberg, and Nicole Husain. The article highlights two critical areas that I argue require more research in the studies of video games in education. The first area focuses on the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Play, Video Games, Educational Research
Matijevic, Milan – Online Submission, 2008
According to the results of a survey conducted in 2006 in Croatia (N = 2,994), 75% of pupils in primary education have a computer at home. Of this number, 70% are connected to the Internet. All elementary schools in Croatia have special classrooms where information can be accessed on the Internet, but it is planned to equip all classrooms with one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Uses in Education
Bugeja, Micheal J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Most people have at least secondhand knowledge about Second Life, a virtual-reality world created by Linden Lab, in which avatars (digital characters) lease "islands" for real-life purposes--to sell products, conduct classes, do research, hold conferences, and even recruit for admissions. About nine million avatars reportedly interact on this…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
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Laurillard, Diana – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
The article argues that we make best use of learning technologies if we begin with an understanding of educational problems, and use this analysis to target the solutions we should be demanding from technology. The focus is to address the issue from the perspective of teachers and lecturers (the "teaching community"), and to consider how…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Action Research, Online Courses, Learning Experience
Wyatt, Ray – 2001
This paper describes a World Wide Web-based, generic, inter-disciplinary subject called computer-aided policymaking. It has been offered at Melbourne University (Australia) from the beginning of 2001. It has generated some salutary lessons in marketing and pedagogy, but overall it is concluded that Web-based teaching has a rosy future.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
McLoughlin, M. Padraig M. M. – Online Submission, 2003
The author of this paper submits that students have a natural inquisitiveness; hence, students must be active in learning. Thus, the student must learn to conjecture and prove or disprove said conjecture. Ergo, the purpose of the paper is to submit the thesis that learning with the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) can enhance the students'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Internet, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement
Kettley, P.; Reilly, P. – 2003
This document introduces the concept of electronic human resources (eHR) and its application. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of the guide's development, purpose, and structure. Chapter 2 defines the concept of eHR as "the application of conventional, Web, and voice technologies to improve HR administration, transactions, and process…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Definitions, Delivery Systems
Bogdanowicz, Marc; Burgelman, Jean-Claude; Centeno, Clara; Gourova, Elisavetta; Carat, Gerard – 2003
Potential policies and strategies for building the information society (IS) in countries that are candidates for admission to the European Union were explored at a workshop attended by 39 experts from the European Commission (EC), the EC's Institute for Prospective and Technological Studies, and outside the EC. The workshop focused on the specific…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Planning, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship