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Nermeen Dashoush – Childhood Education, 2024
When designing solutions for early learning, part of the process is clearly identifying a problem that impacts the wellbeing of young children that is both well-researched and in need of innovative solutions. However, with such a vast and complex field, identifying an issue to focus on can be difficult. The questions adults ask children have a…
Descriptors: Well Being, Early Childhood Education, Questioning Techniques, Inquiry
Chung, Michelle – Childhood Education, 2022
The Breateau Foundation delivers a range of programmes to support disadvantaged children. As an education provider in developing countries, the Breteau Foundation witnesses firsthand the disruptions, challenges, and barriers that negatively affect access to education, which include poverty, lack of infrastructure, trafficking, child slavery, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Barriers
Lopez-Guerrero, Magdalena Brier – Childhood Education, 2021
Despite incredible advances of humanity, inequality, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, remains an unresolved issue at a global level. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established in 2000 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, seek to address those inequities through a series of objectives to be reached by the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Linares, Tomás – Childhood Education, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in 2020, the effect on rural areas was significant. Access to the internet in rural areas is limited and cost prohibitive. This article discusses why we must find ways to ensure education delivery in urban and rural areas. Unfortunately, many school systems in developing countries lack the expertise and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Access to Education, Urban Areas
Horn, Michael B. – Childhood Education, 2020
When teacher shortages pose a significant challenge to delivering quality education, what disruptive educational approaches can we explore to ensure students are learning?
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation, Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries
Gordon, Jenny; Postlewhite, Kerry – Childhood Education, 2017
Africa has more people younger than 20 years old than anywhere in the world, and the continent's population is set to double to two billion by 2050. Asking whether that is a challenge or an opportunity isn't really the right question because it is both. For Mwabu, an education technology company born and bred in Zambia, the more important question…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Trucano, Michael – Childhood Education, 2017
For many people, the use of technology in education constitutes a de facto "innovation." Whether or not this belief is actually accurate, or useful, is a legitimate question for discussion. That said, there is no denying that many of the educational innovations celebrated (or at least touted) today are enabled by the use of such…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Giles, Rebecca McMahon – Childhood Education, 2006
Exposure to cell phones, DVD players, video games, computers, digital cameras, and iPods has made today's young people more technologically advanced than those of any previous generation. As a result, parents are now concerned that their children are spending too much time in front of the computer. In this article, the author focuses her…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Video Games, Educational Technology, Access to Computers
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Swaminathan, Sudha; Yelland, Nicola – Childhood Education, 2003
World-wide incorporation of new technologies into the classroom has revealed many common issues. These include the following: governments link educational technology to their country's stature; appropriate teacher training is lacking; equity and accessibility vary; and because technologies engage children with learning in new and dynamic ways,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Alternative Assessment, Computer Literacy, Computer Use
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Ngan, Ming-Yan; Lee, Chi-Kin John; Koo, Ramsey D. – Childhood Education, 2003
A case study of an elementary school in Hong Kong found students benefit most when provided many opportunities to use information technologies (IT). Teachers' attitudes influence students' attitudes toward IT, and teachers are more likely to use technology if equipment is in the classroom. Improved curriculum and teaching methods will ensure the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Case Studies, Computer Literacy, Computer Use
Learning through ICT in Swedish Early Childhood Education from a Pedagogical Perspective of Quality.
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Sheridan, Sonja; Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling – Childhood Education, 2003
Examines the critical role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Swedish early childhood classrooms. Suggests that for children to become skillful users of ICT, equipment and a variety of software must be readily available, and teachers must develop their expertise with technology in order to use it effectively and creatively in…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Use, Computer Uses in Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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SeokHoon, Alice Seng – Childhood Education, 2003
Describes the components of Singapore's Masterplan for Information Technology (IT) in Education, which lays out a comprehensive strategy for creating an IT-based teaching and learning environment in every school. Discusses the impact on childhood learning and on the teaching staff, highlighting the experience of one of the demonstration schools as…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Computer Use, Computer Uses in Education
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Kankaanranta, Marja; Kangassalo, Marjatta – Childhood Education, 2003
Describes the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Finnish early childhood environments from three perspectives. Examines Finnish national policies on the use of ICT; indicates the prevailing state of ICT use, according to results of international and national surveys; and presents some innovative practices involving the use…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Computer Use, Computer Uses in Education
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Kilderry, Anna; Yelland, Nicola; Lazaridis, Vicky; Dragicevic, Silvana – Childhood Education, 2003
Drawing on the experience of two first-year classrooms in Melbourne, Australia, this article explores numeracy learning within an information and communication technology (ICT) environment. Included are examples of how mathematical skills can be promoted and learned in such a way that children can extend their use to practical, problem-solving…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Active Learning, Computer Literacy, Computer Use
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Thirumurthy, Vidya; Sundaram, Nithya – Childhood Education, 2003
Explores issues related to the use of technology in Indian schools, drawing on information from a variety of sources, such as interviews with parents and teachers, school visits, government information, and magazine and journal articles. Examines India's cultural and educational environments; diversity of parents' and educators' attitudes about…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Computer Use, Computer Uses in Education