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Nogry, S.; Varly, P. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
Information and communication technology (ICT) use among children in low-income countries remains understudied. The purpose of this study is to describe laptop usage among children in the context of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project 4 years after the laptops were first introduced in a community in Madagascar. The study was conducted using a…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Low Income Groups
Lewis Ellison, Tisha – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
This case study examines one African American adolescent male's digital choices and experiences during the creation of a digital story about Minecraft. This study introduces digital participatory choice cultures as a framework to consider how he might recognize and use existing meaning-making and composition strategies to bridge what young people…
Descriptors: Story Telling, African American Students, Adolescents, Case Studies
Chen, Yi-Jeng – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
The processes and patterns of strategies used by children when drawing on the computer with friends and acquaintances were investigated in a case study. The participants were five-and-six-year-old children and the study took place in their home settings. The data collection methods consisted of interviews, observations, audio recordings, video…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Freehand Drawing, Young Children, Interviews
Teleha, John C.; Sims, Iyanna; Spruill, Octavious; Bowen, Arneice; Russell, Tiffany; Exner, Nina – Public Services Quarterly, 2017
Academic libraries are spending considerable time and study on redesigning spaces. The use of technology is often an important part of these redesigned spaces. The space redesign goals at F. D. Bluford Library focus on creating open, activity-promoting, colorful spaces that are designed to be attractive to students. The goals also focus on…
Descriptors: Library Development, Library Automation, Space Utilization, Interior Design
Hiniker, Alexis – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Designers of interactive technologies have long prioritized user engagement, and today's popular end-user products are irresistibly engaging. Modern technology offers enormous value and convenience, but it has also led to widespread feelings of dissatisfaction, and users report wishing they had a different relationship with the technologies they…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Family (Sociological Unit), Parents, Children
Turan, Ilhan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study investigated Chinese and Turkish prospective geography teachers' use of computer and internet applications as indispensable instruments in and out of education. 292 prospective geography teachers students from Shanghai, China, and Izmir, Turkey, participated in this study. The aim of this study was to examine the use of computers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Geography, Computer Use
Tallvid, Martin; Lundin, Johan; Svensson, Lars; Lindström, Berner – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
The research reported in this article explores and discusses students' use of laptops in a 1:1 setting. A problem experienced by teachers is that the laptops are possible distractors and tempt students to engage in use that is not in line with the teacher's idea of what would be suitable in relation to the current assignment. Three annual surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Program Implementation, Observation
Bjørgen, Anne Mette; Erstad, Ola – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2015
This article directs attention to how young students make sense of the connections and disconnections of digital practices between school and leisure. By using New Literacy Studies as a frame of reference, we study how students' conceptions of digital literacies and their positional identities are defined across school and home. In contrast to…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Use, Children
Wallinheimo, Kirsi; Pitkänen, Kari K. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
In recent years, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki has systematically developed and synchronized its teaching technology, and new iPad-based tools have been an important part of this development. The aim has been to provide the students and teachers in the faculty with synchronized tools that can be used as a basis of a shared…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Medical Education
Hatzigianni, Maria; Margetts, Kay – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2010
Children are born into a rich technological environment and by the time they attend preschool they already have accumulated a wide variety of technological experiences, skills and knowledge. This paper reports on part of a project undertaken in Melbourne, Australia, which had as a primary aim to explore the existence or not of a relationship…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Preschool Children, Computer Use, Foreign Countries
Karuppiah, Nirmala – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This exploratory research project was aimed at developing baseline data on computer habits and behaviours among preschool children in Singapore. Three sets of data were collected from teachers, parents and children which are (1) why and how young children use computers; (2) what are the key physical, social and health habits and behaviours of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Computer Attitudes, Child Behavior
Devisch, Oswald; Veestraeten, Daniel – Journal of Urban Technology, 2013
Citizen science is a term used to describe the engagement of ordinary citizens in scientific tasks like observation, measurement, and computation. A series of technological innovations, such as the Internet, the upgrade of mobile phones from communication devices to networked mobile personal measurement devices, and the introduction of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Influence of Technology
Churchill, Daniel; Khoo, Kay Yong – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This paper reports on case studies of four primary school children and their digital practices in Hong Kong. The study explored how the participating children view and represent through digital text in the context of their out-of-school technology use. Understanding how these practices extended into their English language classrooms was explicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Singh, Termit Kaur Ranjit; Muniandi, Kalaivani – International Education Studies, 2012
The Malaysian Government has introduced various initiatives to facilitate the greater adoption and diffusion of ICT to improve capacities in the education system. Due to the extensive investment, schools are expected to utilize and integrate ICTs in administrative tasks, teaching and learning and general running of schools. This study was set out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, School Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Grimley, Mick – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
Recent developments in digital technology have resulted in the unprecedented uptake of digital technology engagement as a leisure-time pursuit across the age span. This has resulted in the speculation that such use of digital technology is responsible for changes in cognition and learning behaviour. This study investigated two groups of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Research Skills
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