[divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″] Abstract This paper explores The Avatar Project, a 12 week program undertaken at St Mark’s Catholic College, Australia, with the aim of generating opportunities for students to undertake active citizenship in the local and …
ICT – an international perspective
[divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″] Abstract The information in this article is based on visits to school through a series of programmes over the space of nearly fifteen years. Starting with the involvement in Web for Schools Project in …
Can Tablets Help to Remove Barriers to Reading for Learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities?
[divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″] Abstract For learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), technology can provide a range of additional benefits in the learning environment. Since September 2012 schools have had a duty to anticipate and provide auxiliary aids …
Digital Initiatives In Argentina
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Digital Initiatives In Argentina Across the world a growing number of initiatives are putting netbooks in the hand of the learners: these mobile devices are believed to improve motivation and raise achievement. I have just returned from speaking …
Digital Initiatives in Education: Waiting for the UK Coalition
Author: Christina Preston Founder of the MirandaNet Fellowship mirandanet.ac.uk Professor of Educational Innovation, University of Bedfordshire In the UK, innovative national projects in the use of computers in teaching and learning have been taking place since the late 1980s. These …
Strategies For Increasing Independent Learning
The power of personal devices [divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″] Abstract This mixed secondary state school with 700 pupils is in an area of deprivation in a coastal town (Figures One and Two). The new building completed in 2009 after a …