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Access Denied? Twenty-First-Century Technology in Schools
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Male, Trevor; Burden, Kevin – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
This article considers how developments in technologies have transformed the kind of social interaction possible over the Internet, making it feasible to undertake discourse and dialogue without having to rely solely on text-based mediation. This represents a fundamental change to learning, shifting from passive acquisition of someone else's ideas…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Access to Computers, Access to Information
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Villano, Matt – Campus Technology, 2008
Building access control (BAC)--a catchall phrase to describe the systems that control access to facilities across campus--has traditionally been handled with remarkably low-tech solutions: (1) manual locks; (2) electronic locks; and (3) ID cards with magnetic strips. Recent improvements have included smart cards and keyless solutions that make use…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
On the Horizon: New Advances in Security Technology
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Gamble, Cheryl – Community College Journal, 2005
The worlds of security and technology have been on an intersecting course since the first published account of the use of fingerprint identification made news in 1880 (although unpublished reports suggest its use as early as 1858). In the three and one half years since the September 11 attacks, technological advances across the security field have…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, National Security, Security (Psychology), Computer Security
Matching Up to the Information Society: An Evaluation of the EU, the EU Accession Countries, Switzerland and the United States. Summary
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Graafland-Essers, Irma; Cremonini, Leon; Ettedgui, Emile; Botterman, Maarten – RAND Corporation, 2003
This report presents the current understanding of the advancement of the Information Society within the European Union and countries that are up for accession in 2004, and is based on the SIBIS (Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society) surveys and analyses per SIBIS theme and country. The report is unique in its coherent and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Measurement
Matching Up to the Information Society: An Evaluation of the EU, the EU Accession Countries, Switzerland and the United States
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Graafland-Essers, Irma; Cremonini, Leon; Ettedgui, Emile; Botterman, Maarten – RAND Corporation, 2003
This report presents the current understanding of the advancement of the Information Society within the European Union and countries that are up for accession in 2004, and is based on the SIBIS (Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society) surveys and analyses per SIBIS theme and country. The report is unique in its coherent and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Measurement
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers