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Karen Woo; Garry Falloon – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Coding and computational thinking are being hailed as the new literacy for the twenty-first century, and have become increasingly common in schools world-wide. At the same time, the sector is facing a global shortage of technology teachers, and technology lessons are frequently being delivered by non-specialist teachers. Therefore, some have…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Thinking Skills, 21st Century Skills, Elementary School Students
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Lang, Catherine; Fisher, Julie; Craig, Annemieke; Forgasz, Helen – Computer Science Education, 2015
This article presents a reflective analysis of an outreach programme called the Digital Divas Club. This curriculum-based programme was delivered in Australian schools with the aim of stimulating junior and middle school girls' interest in computing courses and careers. We believed that we had developed a strong intervention programme based on…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Computer Science, Females, Foreign Countries
Yeom, Soonja; Choi-Lundberg, Derek; Fluck, Andrew; Sale, Arthur – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Visualizing the structure and relationships in three dimensions (3D) of organs is a challenge for students of anatomy. To provide an alternative way of learning anatomy engaging multiple senses, we are developing a force-feedback (haptic) interface for manipulation of 3D virtual organs, using design research methodology, with iterations of system…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
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Wilson, Brian – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1990
Results from a survey of 65 Australian first-year teacher-trainees indicate that the majority of students are positively inclined but ill prepared to take advantage of the computers they find at their disposal when entering a teacher education training institution. Implications for teacher education courses are explored. (IAH)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries