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1st Edition

Children and Computers in School

By Betty A. Collis, Gerald A. Knezek, Kwok-Wing Lai, Keiko T. Miyashita, Willem J. Pelgrum Copyright 1996
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime importance to teachers,... Read more
Contents: Preface. B.A. Collis, T. Sakamoto, Children in the Information Age. B.A. Collis, G.A. Knezek, K-W. Lai, K.T. Miyashita, W.J. Pelgrum, T. Plomp, T. Sakamoto, Three Multinational Studies. W.J. Pelgrum, T. Plomp, Information Technology and Children from a Global Perspective. B.A. Collis, K-W. Lai, Information Technology and Children from a Classroom Perspective. G.A. Knezek, K.T. Miyashita, T. Sakamoto, Information Technology from the Child's Perspective. Reflections. G.A. Knezek, K.T. Miyashita, Reflections on Selected Research Topics. B.A. Collis, Measuring the Effects of Computers in Education: Methods and Research. W.J. Pelgrum, The Educational Potential of New Information Technologies: Where are We Now? T. Sakamoto, Future Research Needs and Opportunities. K-W. Lai, Living in the Information Age. T. Plomp, Future Directions for IT in Education. M.A. Murray-Lasso, Appendix: Culture as a Context and Determinant of Educational Uses of Information Technology.

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Betty A. Collis, Gerald A. Knezek, Kwok-Wing Lai, Keiko T. Miyashita, Willem J. Pelgrum, Tjeerd Plomp, Takashi Sakamoto

"...provides a useful collection of three diverse, large-scale, multinational investigations....an important benchmark of how computers are being used and integrated into classrooms worldwide....a great service to graduate students, researchers, designers, teachers, and policy makers interested in instructional technology."
—Journal of Educational Computing Research

"A world-wide tour-de-force describing research from a global perspective, a classroom perspective, and a child's perspective..."
—G. Ernest Anderson
University of Massachusetts

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