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Steinbrecher, Trisha; Hart, Juliet – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2012
Members of the Net Generation are increasingly using social networking sites to interact with individuals both on and off campus. In this study, we employed a quantitative approach with an exploration of descriptive data to examine "Facebook" site features pre-service educators use and how those features are utilized in personal and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teachers, Social Networks, Web Sites
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de Souza, Marian; McLean, Karen – Pastoral Care in Education, 2012
In this article, the authors examine contemporary pluralistic, technologically-driven societies where human spirituality, in terms of human experiences of connectedness, is eroded and overwhelmed by high levels of cultural and religious diversity and hi-tech devices. Without connectedness, empathy and compassion become missing elements resulting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Violence, Social Change
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Lewis, Elizabeth C.; Chandler-Olcott, Kelly – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This article reports on the use of a text-based verbal protocol (Afflerbach, 2000) situated within individual interviews to elicit secondary English teachers' perspectives on new literacies (Albers & Harste, 2007; Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008). Ranging significantly in their teaching experience and comfort with new media and…
Descriptors: English Departments, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Experience
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McBride, Mark F. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2012
The response to the countless forms of information delivery and creation has been the catalyst for the development of the new literacies that are being researched and implemented into teaching by educators around the world. This article will examine information literacy courses being taught at colleges and universities and how the courses…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Professional Associations, Research Libraries, Information Literacy
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Adams, Jill – Middle School Journal (J1), 2012
Technological advances have created amazing opportunities for people throughout the world to access and share information. These opportunities have helped to create a generation of young adolescents who want to make the most of each minute of the day, seizing opportunities to seek information and communicate at the same time. This generation is…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Technological Advancement, Influence of Technology, Critical Thinking
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Garcia, Antero – Educational Forum, 2012
This article shares findings from a year-long study about social practices of high school youth with mobile devices during school time. In particular, this study found that students see their school time as fluidly social and academic. Educators and policy-makers need to carefully consider these social practices when preparing 21st century youth…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Handheld Devices, High School Students, Social Behavior
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Friesen, N.; Lowe, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
Facebook and other social media have been hailed as delivering the promise of new, socially engaged educational experiences for students in undergraduate, self-directed, and other educational sectors. A theoretical and historical analysis of these media in the light of earlier media transformations, however, helps to situate and qualify this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Electronic Learning, Television
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Strudler, Neal; Wetzel, Keith – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2012
At a time when implementation of electronic portfolios (EPs) is expanding, the issues of clarifying their purposes continue to plague teacher education programs. Are student-centered uses of EPs compatible with program assessment and accreditation efforts? Is this an either/or situation, or can a productive middle ground be forged? This article…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Teacher Education Programs, Portfolio Assessment, Evidence
Stergioulas, Lampros K., Ed.; Drenoyianni, Helen, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Over the last two decades, advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed to the ideological construct of an emerging "knowledge society"--one which places a high value on knowledge and education and promises a better future for humanity. However, the severe economic--and by extension, social and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Media Literacy, Information Literacy
Courville, Keith – Online Submission, 2011
(Purpose) This article describes two current trends in Educational Technology: distributed learning and electronic databases. (Findings) Topics addressed in this paper include: (1) distributed learning as a means of professional development; (2) distributed learning for content visualization; (3) usage of distributed learning for educational…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Knowledge Management, Educational Technology, Databases
Reitmeyer, Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The goal of this project is to begin investigating the emergent media practices of current academic disciplines. This dissertation posits that Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) scholars have investigated new media use in undergraduate pedagogy, and to some extent the practices of graduate students. However, WAC scholars have yet to try to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Students, College Instruction, Educational Research
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Hong, Kian-Sam; Songan, Peter – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
As in the developed nations, developing countries in the Southeast Asian region increasingly are recognising the important role higher education plays in enhancing the human resources of a nation for promoting its development in a world of depleting natural resources. Advances and pervasiveness of ICT in the society mean that higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Technology Uses in Education
Norris, Cathleen A.; Soloway, Elliot – Educational Technology, 2011
Speeding past the Steve Jobs Post-PC Era into the Age of Mobilism, the authors foresee how, by 2015, each and every student in America's K-12 classrooms will be using their own mobile computing device, with those devices engendering the most disruptive transformation in education in 150 years. Classrooms will move from today's "I Teach"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Corporations
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Khagurov, T. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
The article examines changes in the sphere of Russian education as a result of the reform of education and the consequences of the use of audiovisual means of mass communication (especially television and the Internet) that foster the formation of consumerist media thinking in school and college students. That kind of thinking carries the threat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Audiovisual Communications, Television
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Yildiz, Selin; Batie, Michael – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Community colleges employ more than one-third of the nation's higher education faculty. Nevertheless, the labor market through which faculty are recruited, selected, hired, evaluated and retained or replaced is one of the least understood aspects of these institutions. Functional management and effective policy both require a clear understanding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Labor Market, Labor
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