Digital Opportunities

Dr Christina Preston

[divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″] Abstract The Digital Opportunities project explores strategies to bridge the digital divide. Students have been provided with notebook computers by Toshiba, and a web-based publishing and learning environment by Oracle. The students are encouraged to develop …

Can Tablets Help to Remove Barriers to Reading for Learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities?

Dr Christina Preston

[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 …

How children learn: 12 principles of learning – A checklist

Dr Christina Preston

  [divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″]   Abstract This checklist is based on Stella Vosiniadou’s work. You can download the checklist as a Word document. Author: Piet Rodenhuis Publication Date: 2010 [s2If !is_user_logged_in()]To see the complete Case Study, please Login or Join.[/s2If] …

Taking a Frog Home

Dr Christina Preston

A brief paper about young children’s emerging literacy and their use of ICT… [divide margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″ color=”#a0a0a0″]   Abstract In this paper the authors present a pilot study which started in august 2005 in a primary school in the bilingual …