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Hobbs, Renee; Tuzel, Sait – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Educators have a variety of beliefs and attitudes about the best ways to support students' critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration skills by connecting the classroom to contemporary society, mass media and popular culture. Teachers who advance digital and media literacy may have a complex set of attitudes and habits of mind…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation, Computer Literacy, Media Literacy
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Dangwal, Ritu; Gupta, Zuleikha – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Conversation with many juvenile children residing at observation Homes exemplifies how their past haunts them and at times is a major source of them feeling unequipped to survive in the world outside the barriers of the government Home boundaries. This lack of self-confidence may also demotivate the child from returning to formal education at a…
Descriptors: Learning Centers (Classroom), Computer Literacy, Self Esteem, Information Technology
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Broady, Tim; Chan, Amy; Caputi, Peter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Computers and associated technology have become central to modern life. In a society where the population is rapidly ageing, the acceptance and utilisation of developing technologies by an older population is becoming increasingly important. This review highlights similarities and differences between the attitudes and acceptance of technology by…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Older Adults, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Sieber, Vivien – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
Attitude, experience and competence (broadly covered by the European Computer Driving Licence syllabus) in information technology (IT) were assessed in 846 1st-year Medical Sciences Division undergraduates (2003-06) at the start of their first term. Online assessments delivered during induction workshops were presented as an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Information Technology, Computer Literacy, Skills
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Wong, Denis; Clarke, Steve; Lodge, Nigel; Shephard, Kerry – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Demand-led learning offers resources to learners when they want them; total solution learning takes the learner from induction to final accreditation through a seamless process. The University of Southampton attempted to deliver basic information technology skills through the support of these processes. Steps in the seamless process were designed,…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Distance Education, Computer Literacy, Feedback
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Tondeur, Jo; van Braak, Johan; Valcke, Martin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
In many countries, information and communication technology (ICT) has a clear impact on the development of educational curricula. In Flanders, the education government has identified and defined a framework of ICT competencies for expected outcomes, related to knowledge, skills and attitudes that pupils are expected to achieve at the end of…
Descriptors: School Policy, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Phelps, Renata; Hase, Stewart; Ellis, Allan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
Notions of competency have dominated the computer education literature, and have underpinned Competency-Based Training (CBT) in information technology at all levels of education and training. The emergence of counter-narratives underpinned by the capability movement, have as yet had minimal impact on practice in computer education. New discourses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Competence, Information Technology, Action Research
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Plowman, Lydia; Stephen, Christine – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
The paper reports a study designed to inform the development of an information and communication technology strategy for the pre-school years of education. The main methods of collecting evidence were observations at seven pre-school settings and interviews with at least two practitioners and a number of children at each site. Practitioners…
Descriptors: Interaction, Play, Information Technology, Preschool Children
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Banwell, Linda; Ray, Kathryn; Coulson, Graham; Urquhart, Christine; Lonsdale, Ray; Armstrong, Chris; Thomas, Rhian; Spink, Sin; Yeoman, Alison; Fenton, Roger; Rowley, Jennifer – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
This article aims to provide a baseline for future studies on the provision and support for the use of digital or electronic information services (EIS) in further education. The analysis presented is based on a multi-level model of access, which encompasses access to and availability of information and communication technology (ICT) resources,…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Information Services, Adult Education, Internet
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Andrews, Paul – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1997
A survey of 185 secondary mathematics teachers investigated their perceptions of expertise and curricular justifications for the classroom use of databases, spreadsheets, Logo and BASIC. The study determined that teachers who used software regularly tended to have shorter lengths of service, better qualifications, and were more likely to be male.…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software