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Lloyd, Pamela Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation analyzes the potential impact community broadband availability has on personal and classroom levels of technology adoption for high school students and teachers in Alaska. Community broadband availability was defined as, (a) terrestrial broadband availability; (b) satellite broadband availability; and (c) no broadband available.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Cash, Terry – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2011
For over two years the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) at Clemson University has been supporting the Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD) in NW Alaska with their efforts to reduce high school dropout in 23 remote Yup'ik Eskimo villages. The Rural Alaska Mentoring Project (RAMP) provides school-based E-mentoring services to 164…
Descriptors: Eskimos, Mentors, Dropout Prevention, Rural Areas
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Rushing, Stephanie Craig; Stephens, David – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth are disproportionally burdened by many common adolescent health issues, including drug and alcohol use, injury and violence, sexually transmitted infections, and teen pregnancy. Media technologies, including the Internet, cell phones, and video games, offer new avenues for reaching adolescents on a…
Descriptors: Video Games, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Drinking
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Bertram, Kathryn Berry – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2010
The Arctic Climate Modeling Program (ACMP) offered yearlong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professional development to teachers in rural Alaska. Teacher training focused on introducing youth to workforce technologies used in Arctic research. Due to challenges in making professional development accessible to rural teachers, ACMP…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development, Rural Schools
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Jones, Darla – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
This article presents the results of a study conducted in Anchorage, Alaska, that evaluated the accuracy and efficiency of using voice recognition (VR) technology to collect oral reading fluency data for classroom-based assessments. The primary research question was as follows: Is voice recognition technology a valid and reliable alternative to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Oral Language, Perception