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Peer reviewedUpitis, Rena – Canadian Journal of Education, 2001
Studied how 29 Canadian junior high school students aged 11 to 14 used technology to design and produce toys. Findings show that the project-based unit allowed students to use technology in meaningful ways, and that computer use allowed some shifts in traditional gender-technology relations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedUpitis, Rena – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1998
Explores a range of responses, attitudes, and behaviors of seventh- and eighth-grade students to computer and video technology through observations and other research techniques over the course of a school year. Characterizes the students as having "computer personalities" and explains different cases. Offers suggestions for including…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
