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Teachers' Attitudes towards the Utility of Computers in Education in Kenya
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Buliva, Newton – African Educational Research Journal, 2018
The Kenya government is funding an ambitious project that seeks to provide one laptop per elementary school child in order to increase the use of digital technologies in classrooms. The role of teachers' attitudes towards the utility of computers will have an impact on the implementation of this program. This study explores the differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
On the Use of Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices in the Classroom: Evidence from a Survey of Faculty and Students
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Baker, William M.; Lusk, Edward J.; Neuhauser, Karyn L. – Journal of Education for Business, 2012
The authors investigated faculty and student perceptions regarding the use of cell phones and other electronic devices in the classroom. Students differed markedly from faculty, with students exhibiting much greater acceptance of in-class use of technology. Among students, the authors found that gender affected perceptions. Specifically, male…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Teacher Attitudes
Connected to Learn: Teachers' Experiences with Networked Technologies in the Classroom
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Johnson, Matthew; Riel, Richard; Germain-Froese, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation, 2016
To get a better understanding of how networked technologies are impacting teachers and their teaching practices, in 2015 MediaSmarts partnered with the Canadian Teachers' Federation to survey 4,043 K-12 teachers and school administrators who were teaching in classroom settings across the country. The survey explored the extent to which networked…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Use Studies
The Impact of Laptop Provision on Teacher Attitudes towards ICT
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Sipila, Keijo – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Finnish primary and secondary schools has been increasing for the last decade, but the full potential of the new technology has not been achieved; pedagogical thinking in educational institutes has not advanced in parallel with technological advances. Teachers' attitudes towards the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Gender Differences
PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line. Digital Technologies and Performance. Volume VI
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This sixth volume of the Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA 2009) results explores students' use of information technologies to learn. For PISA 2009, the framework for reading literacy has been developed to encompass reading electronic texts. This has led to an expansion of the description of text types to take account of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Reading Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Reading Instruction
Technology Task Autonomy and Gender Effects on Student Performance in Rural Middle School Science Classrooms
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Cantrell, Pamela; Sudweeks, Richard – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
This project investigated the effects of technology task autonomy, teacher gender, and student gender on student achievement scores for students disaggregated by IEP and SES in middle school science classrooms. Participants were from the treatment group in a larger quasi-experimental design project that investigated the effects of integrated…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Student Motivation, Scores, Personal Autonomy