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Yuke Fu; Nathaniel J. Johnson; Mowei Liu; Tiana B. Vandendort; Rebecca K. Robertson; Hayley T. Hartwick – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
With children's digital technology usage surging in post-pandemic Canada, it is imperative to understand children's digital literacy and multimodal practices. This study investigated potential predictors of children's digital literacy and multimodal practices at home, and the latent profiles of digital families. A sample of 413 parents of children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Parents, Access to Computers
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Debra Laxton; Linda Cooper; Sarah Younie – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This paper addresses the research problem of how to reach, engage and support parents in home-educating young children during the first national COVID-19 lockdown in England (March-June 2020), which was addressed through using technology. An internet-mediated research (IMR) approach is used to investigate the effectiveness of using technology and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents
Guernsey, Lisa; Levine, Michael H. – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2017
Every community in the United States has the potential to transform itself into this kind of ecosystem that supports families and promotes digital inclusion. Resources for Digital-Age learning already exist in libraries, schools, multimedia spaces, and through parents' personal smartphones, but localities are not often tapping into them to help…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Technology Integration, Family Involvement, Early Childhood Education
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Agbo, Igwe Sylvester – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Research studies in the past years show that Information and Communication Technology is an effective means for boasting educational opportunities, but most teachers neither use this technology as an instructional delivery system nor integrate technology into their curriculum. Studies reveal a number of factors influencing teachers' decisions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Influences, Computer Science Education
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
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Smedts, Geertrui – Ethics and Education, 2008
Technology is not just a tool but an amalgam of conceptual, institutional, and interactional issues that occupy the space of technical reason. In this space, parents' identity is becoming narrowed according to a limited conception in which the place of "caring" is in danger of being lost. Parents are increasingly required to adopt knowledge on…
Descriptors: Parents, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Information Technology
Riley, Sheila – Technology & Learning, 2007
Districts are finding that alert notification systems that deliver automated phone messages are an effective way to reach parents and employees. Implementing the technology is one thing and getting the most out of it is another. This article presents the Districts' goal to get in touch with parents and employees in emergency situations. Andy…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Telecommunications, Educational Strategies, School Districts