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Vindya V. Senadheera; Thilini P. Rupasinghe; Dileepa S. Ediriweera – Journal of Learning for Development, 2024
Most students in higher education at present are 'digital natives.' They use technology in every facet of their life, including their education. They learn from formally organised courses as well as from informal learning. Hence, informal learning has been identified as crucial for the sustainability of higher education in the current global…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Sustainability, Higher Education, Influence of Technology
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Larson, Eric C. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2018
Social media has quickly garnered the attention and interaction of users of all ages from around the world. The growth in popularity of social media platforms raises important issues for individuals and organizations regarding how to interact with the relatively new technology. This teaching case describes the experience of an information systems…
Descriptors: Social Media, Confidentiality, Social Networks, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Berry, Barnett – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Teachers' learning is being tamped down by evaluators of their practice, administrators, and coaches who have never taught the new student standards. Most American teachers have little say when it comes to their professional development. The author nonetheless remains optimistic about the future of the teaching profession--largely on account of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Faculty Development, Social Networks, Teacher Collaboration
Supovitz, Jonathan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author describes how the interactive study of social media's effect on the Common Core debate was designed and executed. Important findings from the study were: 1) We live in an increasingly interconnected social world. 2) Media has evolved over the last half century from a passive system dominated by a few central opinion makers to the…
Descriptors: Debate, State Standards, Program Descriptions, Social Networks
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Ribble, Mike; Miller, Teresa Northern – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
The current gap in technology knowledge and lack of leadership preparation related to digital literacy for school environments can cause serious problems, as school leaders, parents, and broader social communities are currently realizing. The authors describe strategies for educational leaders to prepare their stakeholder groups for a digital…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Computer Literacy, Social Networks, Media Literacy
Flaherty, Bill – School Business Affairs, 2013
Today's youth must deal with friend management 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through smartphones and such social networking sites as Facebook. Technology in the classroom can be valuable, but not without challenges. The key is well-thought-out policies. While school districts can't completely control how students use their…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Information Policy, Web 2.0 Technologies, Handheld Devices
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Serafini, Frank; Youngs, Suzette – Reading Teacher, 2013
As readers encounter children's literature in new formats and modes of delivery, the basic processes of reading, sharing, discussing and analyzing texts will change. Because of these changes, new instructional approaches and resources will be required to support the development of young readers in a Reading Workshop 2.0 environment. In a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Technology Uses in Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Handheld Devices
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Raths, David – T.H.E. Journal, 2012
January brings many opportunities for change. The new year also allows district technology leaders and innovators to reflect on how the rapid pace of technological change is impacting what happens in their classrooms. Instructional technologies that were all the rage a year ago (netbooks) can be swept aside by this year's favorite (iPads).…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Influence of Technology, Technology Integration, School Districts
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Anderson, Jon D. – Journal of Dance Education, 2012
Media and technological advances over the past decade have significantly influenced teaching--its design, delivery, and interactivity. At the same time, social media now dominates the ways in which most of the students encounter and engage the world. The implications of these developments present a number of critical questions about teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Internet, Video Technology, Musicians
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Jocson, Korina M. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
This article explores youth making media across genre practices. The author begins with a discussion of youth media arts, followed by a discussion of remix in the digital era. An exemplary video poem project from the San Francisco Bay Area is described to illustrate the importance of critical solidarity among youth. The multimodal design,…
Descriptors: Youth, Social Networks, Films, Web Sites
Kolodzy, Janet; Grant, August E.; DeMars, Tony R.; Wilkinson, Jeffrey S. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2014
The emergence of the Internet, social media, and digital technologies in the twenty-first century accelerated an evolution in journalism and communication that fit under the broad term of convergence. That evolution changed the relationship between news producers and consumers. It broke down the geographical boundaries in defining our communities,…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Information Technology, Influence of Technology
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Cimadomo, Guido – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
The changes that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) framework obliged the School of Architecture of Malaga, University of Malaga. to make to its "History of Architecture" course are discussed in this paper. It was taken up as an opportunity to modify the whole course, introducing creative teaching and "imaginative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Architectural Education, Higher Education, Educational Technology
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Roach, Audra K.; Beck, Jessica J. – Language Arts, 2012
And so a middle school language arts teacher begins her Saturday. Before coffee, Facebook. In this themed issue on professional development in an era of nick.com, the authors propose that teachers' new literacy learning is as close as their own screens. Teachers, too, live literate lives online in this new age of composition, with impulses to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Social Networks, Internet, Middle School Teachers
Blankenship, Mark – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Interactive, community-focused online tools--like Skype, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, wikis, and the educational software Blackboard--are becoming so dominant in the classroom that it's hard to imagine any professor or student making it through a week without them. Consider a recent survey conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Internet, Web Sites, Educational Resources
Brown, Robert A. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The Northeast United States just experienced one of the region's worst natural disasters. Fortunately, because of the confluence of modern computing power and scientific computing methods, weather forecasting models predicted Sandy's very complicated trajectory and development with a precision that would not have been possible even a decade ago.…
Descriptors: Computers, Prediction, Engineering, Computer Assisted Design
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