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Tanveer, Asma – Online Submission, 2010
In this age of information and technology, educational institutions not just impart knowledge to individuals, but strive to change them into lifelong learners. ICT challenges the traditional method of teaching and learning through its potential as a source of knowledge. Like other developing countries of the world, a computer revolution has taken…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Livingstone, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Evidence, Educational Policy
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Avgerinou, Maria D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
In this article, the author has advanced the view that the world is currently on the threshold of a new status quo--the hegemony of the image. Yet, this seems a mixed blessing, for people, and especially young people, are not equipped with the necessary critical viewing and thinking skills to survive it. Nevertheless, this unfortunate situation…
Descriptors: Definitions, Critical Viewing, Lifelong Learning, Visual Literacy
Gray, Dorothy; Gray, Karen – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
In this electronic age, handwriting seems to have lost its place in America's classrooms. But while today's students do use the computer for many projects, ultimately they need to have legible handwriting--for employment applications, loan applications, formal social correspondence, note taking, and test taking. Here, the authors call for a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Processes, Writing Evaluation
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Monke, Lowell W. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Most schools are unwilling to consider decreasing computer use at school because they fear that without screen time, students will not be prepared for the demands of a high-tech 21st century. Monke argues that having young children spend a significant amount of time on computers in school is harmful, particularly when children spend so much…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Young Children, Reading Readiness
Abbott, Chris – Centre for Literacy, 1998
This is the fourth paper published by The Centre for Literacy in its Working Papers in Literacy series, which present new perspectives on literacy-related issues relevant to researchers, to practitioners, and to policy-makers. This paper was written in 1998 as an advisory document to the UK Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA) which manages…
Descriptors: Literacy, Information Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Uses in Education