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Andreas de Barros – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Explaining the productivity paradox--the phenomenon where an introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) does not lead to improvements in labor productivity--is difficult, as changes in technology often coincide with adjustments to working hours and substitution of labor. I conduct a cluster-randomized trial in India to…
Descriptors: Productivity, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
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Cetin, Yucel; Mirasyedioglu, Seref; Cakiroglu, Erdinc – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: In the constantly changing and evolving world of today, there is a need to raise individuals who are able to renew themselves, learn autonomously, and have higher order thinking skills such as critical thinking and deducing. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of Technology Enhanced Problem-Based Learning…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Problem Based Learning, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Lofthus, Liv; Silseth, Kenneth – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The focus of this article is on digital literacy and students' use of digital sources. We are examining how students choose digital video sources when doing group work with tablets in a social studies project. The analysis centers on how students collaboratively negotiate and reason around their choice of video sources during an assignment about…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Video Technology
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Li, Yan; Ranieri, Maria – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Literature review has found that despite the considerable attention focused on "digital natives", few studies have carefully investigated the characteristics of this group. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the debate on digital natives by providing a "piece of evidence" on the digital competence status of a group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Adolescents, Grade 9
Hudson, Hannah Trierweiler – Instructor, 2011
Megan is a 14-year-old from Nebraska who just started ninth grade. She has her own digital camera, cell phone, Nintendo DS, and laptop, and one or more of these devices is usually by her side. Compared to the interactions and exploration she's engaged in at home, Megan finds the technology in her classroom falls a little flat. Most of the…
Descriptors: Workstations, Educational Technology, Access to Computers, Technology Uses in Education
Heemskerk, Irma; Dam, Geert ten; Admiraal, Wilfried – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2009
The use of technology (information and communication technology, ICT) in secondary education is an important aspect of the current curriculum and of teachers' pedagogy. Learning supported by computers is supposed to be motivating for students and is, therefore, assumed to have positive effects on learning experiences and results. However, the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Educational Technology, Males