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Har, Erman; Khairi, Ashabul; Roza, Welya – Australian Educational Computing, 2019
The aims of this study are to determine the level of ICT accessibility outside the school related to teachers' personal ICT development, to explore the main purpose teachers make of computers and internet utilization, to observe teachers' attitude toward ICT, and measure teachers' skill and their implementation of ICT in teaching science. Data was…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Information Technology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
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Fluck, Andrew E. – Australian Educational Computing, 2011
Australia was once a world leader for laptop adoption in schools. Now overtaken by extensive roll-outs of laptops in Maine and Uruguay, this paper seeks to explain why this lead was lost. Six case studies of government primary schools were undertaken to gather data about current initiatives. Comparative analysis shows how the potential of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Laptop Computers
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Webb, Ian – Australian Educational Computing, 2008
In 2005 the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) was successful in obtaining a grant from National Centre of Science, Information and Communication Technology and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR) to undertake the Computing Studies Teachers Network Rural and Regional Focus Project. The project had five…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Open Education, Distance Education, Student Participation
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Redmond, Petrea – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
Females are under-represented in education, training and employment in the area of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Research shows that girls are tuning out to ICTs in school and they have a low participation rate in ICT related tertiary study and employment. The Tech Savvy report by the American Association of University Women (2000)…
Descriptors: Females, Information Technology, Disproportionate Representation, Computer Literacy
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Reading, Chris; Fluck, Andrew; Trinidad, Sue; Smith, Howard; Shaw, Greg; Anderson, Neil; McLoughlin, Catherine; White, Bruce – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
National priorities set by an Australian ministerial taskforce provide clear guidelines to develop pedagogy that integrates ICT. Although these guidelines do not specifically address rural and regional school needs, the two priorities: promoting pedagogic leadership and creating new learning environments, are of particular interest. But how are…
Descriptors: Regional Schools, Rural Schools, Information Technology, Guidelines
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Miller, Jo; Janovsky, Kathy – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
During the 2001 summer holidays, the main Social Science classroom at St Ursula's College, a Catholic Secondary Girls' school of 740 pupils in Toowomba, Queensland was renovated. A mini-computer laboratory of four nests of computers was incorporated into the traditional teaching space. (See Diagram 1 and photograph). This room was named the…
Descriptors: Student Research, Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Social Sciences