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Sprietsma, Maresa – Education Economics, 2012
The number of schools that have access to computers and the Internet has increased rapidly since the beginning of the 1990s. However, evidence of their effectiveness as pedagogical tools to acquire reading and math skills is still the object of debate. We use repeated cross-section data from Brazil to evaluate the effect of the availability of a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Access to Computers, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills
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Lecklider, Debra; Britten, Jody S.; Clausen, Jon M. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
School principals play an important role concerning technology use within their schools. While school districts across the nation are spending considerable resources in order to provide technical infrastructure to teachers and students, questions remain concerning the priority principals place in how teachers and students use technology within the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Technology, Principals, Administrators
Alberta Education, 2009
The Emerge One-to-One Laptop Learning Project (Emerge) was established in 2006 by Alberta Education to investigate the efficacy of wireless computing for learning and teaching. In 2007, the Alberta provincial government awarded 3-year grants to 20 Alberta jurisdictions. Based on the projections in the awardees' applications, the project…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Foreign Countries, State Government, Teaching Methods
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Cowan, John E. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
In this article, the author introduces a series of practical strategies to support the development of an innovative and technology-rich curriculum. The author begins with the importance of understanding what possibilities for innovation exist given the relationship between curriculum, equity issues, and education reform. The author then discusses…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Internet