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Johnson, Nicola F. – E-Learning, 2009
This article highlights the practice of a group of New Zealand teenagers who are considered by their family and themselves to be technological experts. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's key concepts of habitus, field and capital, this text identifies and discusses the cyber-relations that constitute the practice in the field of home computer use for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Use Studies
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Takeuchi, Miwa – E-Learning, 2008
In this policy research note, the author examines how Ontario curriculum documents for English language learners (ELLs) address information and communication technology (ICT). Upon analysis, three characteristics were identified, as follows: the superiority of standardized English, technology as an ambiguous tool, and under-representation of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy
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Bangou, Francis; Waterhouse, Monica – E-Learning, 2008
This article uses a multiple literacies theory framework to explore the processes of "becoming" technologically literate through a year-long ethnographic study of two Master of Education pre-service second language teachers, a Latina woman and an African American woman, who learned how to use computer technology to teach Spanish at a large…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Ethnography, Technology Integration
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DeGennaro, Donna – E-Learning, 2008
This article examines an after-school program entitled Silk City Media Workshop. Briefly, the workshop engages youth in digital storytelling as a means of enhancing both their technology and literacy skills. Transcending these goals, this workshop also provides opportunities for youth to reveal multiple aspects of their unfolding identities as…
Descriptors: Story Telling, After School Programs, Workshops, Urban Youth
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Graham, Deryn – E-Learning, 2007
This article describes the development of a framework for e-learning and presents the findings of a study investigating whether the use of blended learning can fulfil or at least accommodate some of the human requirements presently neglected by current e-learning systems. The study evaluated the in-house system, Teachmat, and discussed how the use…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education, Blended Learning
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; McClay, Jill Kedersha – E-Learning, 2007
This article presents the results of the initial stage of research on grades 4-8 teachers' writing instruction within rural and urban contexts across Canada. Teachers' goals and their use of digital technologies and multimedia are examined within rural and urban schools in five eastern provinces. Through half-hour telephone interviews with 54…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Social Class, Writing Instruction
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Knobel, Michele – E-Learning, 2006
This article focuses on the social practices of propagating and circulating memes within Internet environments as a significant dimension of cultural production and transmission. Memes (pronounced "meems") are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and which directly shape and transmit key actions and…
Descriptors: Internet, Cultural Influences, Social Development, Definitions
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Pal, Joyojeet; Nedevschi, Sergiu; Patra, Rabin K.; Brewer, Eric A. – E-Learning, 2006
The Akshaya project in the rural Malappuram district of Kerala, India is home to the first and largest district-wide e-literacy project in India, and one of the largest known Internet Protocol-based networks. Through a network of 600 kiosks, the project has been designed to reach computer literacy into over 600,000 households, and bring 3.6…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Internet