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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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An Inquiry into Educational Technologists' Conceptions of Their Philosophies of Teaching and Technology
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Kanuka, Heather; Smith, Erika E.; Kelland, Jennifer H. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2013
It has been suggested that when we know our philosophy of teaching and technology we then have the ability to articulate not only what we are doing as educational technologists, but what we want to achieve with the technologies, and why. And while most educational technologists would agree that knowing our philosophical orientations is important,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Philosophy, Ideology, Educational Practices
The Digital Native Debate in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Literature
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Smith, Erika E. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2012
More than a decade after Prensky's influential articulation of digital natives and immigrants, disagreement exists around these characterizations of students and the impact of such notions within higher education. Perceptions of today's undergraduate learners as tech-savvy "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001a), who both want and need the latest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Research Needs