Learning in School, Home and Community

by Ifip Tc3; Wg3.5 International Working Con; Katz, Yaacov Julian

• ISBN13: 9781402073670
• ISBN10: 1402073674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Schools, homes and communities, including after-care centres, resource centres and libraries, have increased and acquired more technologies, and a wider range of applications are being used. Research shows that students use ICT differently in each setting. School-based technology use is often viewed by students as routine and disconnected from their interests and abilities. Many teachers are hesitant as to how to teach about ICT and, at the same time, integrate ICT into subject-based learning. Parents and the community-at-large have goals that differ from the goals espoused by teachers and students. This volume highlights the concerns of all - students, teachers, parents, policy makers and the general public. Major themes in Learning in School, Home and Community: ICT for Early and Elementary Education include: *Teachers' and researchers' studies of ICT use in school, home and community. *National strategies and policies affecting ICT use in school, home and community. *ICT tools designed to promote learning and the optimal settings to promote learning. *School and community responses to ICT use that promote the integration of ICT for all members of the community. This volume contains the selected proceedings of the Working Conference on Learning with Technologies in School, Home and Community, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held June 30-July 5, 2002 in Manchester, United Kingdom. Contributions from experts around the world, working as teachers, teacher educators, researchers and government officials, make this volume an essential contribution to the development and implementation of ICT policies and programs for schools, homes and communities.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part One: Learning
Learning in school and out: Formal and informal experiences with computer games in mathematical contexts	3	(10)
Nicola Yelland
Using technology to encourage social problem solving in preschoolers	13	(8)
Mandy B. Medvin
Diana Reed
Deborah Behr
Elizabeth Spargo
Using electronic mail communication and metacognitive instruction to improve mathematical problem solving	21	(10)
Bracha Kramarski
Adiva Liberman
Online searching as apprenticeship	31	(10)
Matthew Pearson
The use of virtual reality three-dimensional simulation technology in nursery school teacher training for the understanding of children's cognitive perceptions	41	(12)
Yaacov J. Katz
Exploring visible mathematics with IMAGINE: Building new mathematical cultures with a powerful computational system	53	(12)
Ivan Kalas
Andrej Blaho
Cooperative networks enable shared knowledge: Rapid dissemination of innovative ideas and digital culture	65	(10)
Kate Crawford
Part Two: Teaching
Developing an ICT capability for learning	75	(8)
Steve Kennewell
Separated by a common technology? Factors affecting ICT-related activity in home and school	83	(10)
David Benzie
The interaction between primary teachers' perceptions of ICT and their pedagogy	93	(8)
Avril M. Loveless
Capacity building in tele-houses: A model for tele-mentoring	101	(14)
Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo
Part Three: Policy
ICT for rural education: A developing country perspective	115	(12)
Pedro Hepp
Ernesto Laval
National plans and local challenges: Preparing for lifelong learning in a digital society	127	(10)
Sindre Røsvik
Learning online: E-learning and the domestic market in the UK	137	(12)
Margaret Scanlon
David Buckingham
Glimpses of educational transformation: Making choices at a turning point	149	(10)
Bridget S. Somekh
How do we know that ICT has an impact on children's learning? A review of techniques and methods to measure changes in pupils' learning promoted by the use of ICT	159	(10)
Margaret J. Cox
Index	169