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The Dubious Promise of Educational Technologies: Historical Patterns and Future Challenges
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Cuban, Larry; Jandric, Petar – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
In this article, Larry Cuban discusses his ideas about the topic of this Special Issue of E-learning and Digital Media "Networked Realms and Hoped-For Futures: A Trans-Generational Dialogue" with one of its co-editors, Petar Jandric. The conversation explores the historical relationships between education and information and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Prediction, Innovation
Teachers Teaching in the New Mediascape: Digital Immigrants or "Natural Born Cyborgs"?
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Adams, Catherine A.; Pente, Patti – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
Schooled in an earlier time, educators are laboring to find meaningful purchase in new media environments, unable to match the fluency and sophistication of their "digital native" students. Yet is Marc Prensky's portrayal of teachers as "digital immigrants" really an accurate rendering of the today's situation? Drawing on phenomenological and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Familiarity, Generational Differences
ICT, Education Transformation, and Economic Development: An Analysis of the US National Educational Technology Plan
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Kozma, Robert B. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
In support of the conclusions and recommendations in the National Education Technology Plan (NETP), this article makes explicit the connections between the economic rationale used in the plan and the educational transformations it recommends. The article reviews macroeconomic research, microeconomic research, labor market and workforce studies,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technology Planning, Labor Market, Information Technology