Teaching, learning and information technology: Attitudes towards computers among Hong Kong’s faculty

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger W. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Attitudes ◽  
Teaching Learning

Development of a Scale to Measure Attitudes toward Information Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Anu A. Gokhale ◽  
Kenton F. Machina
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
New Applications

Educators, and business, and political leaders are increasingly recognizing that computing is a new basic skill necessary for economic opportunity and social mobility U.S. President Obama has announced a new initiative, “Computer Science For All” to empower a generation of American students with the computer science skills they need to thrive in a digital economy (2016). Employers seek technical computer specialists who can write software and invent new applications, but American universities are only training enough students to fill about 40% of the projected 1.1 million technology and computing jobs expected by 2024 (National Center for Women and Information Technology, 2016). Moreover, a lack of gender parity within the U.S. technology industry has long been viewed as a critical problem, detracting from innovation and prosperity. Pursuit of information technology (IT) majors depends, to a great extent, on students' attitudes toward IT. This study developed an Attitude toward IT Scale with a gender subtext to measure certain attitudes toward IT, held by college students. The norm group consisted of mostly freshmen enrolled in 2011 (N = 373), at a large four-year public university in Illinois. Reliability and validity of the 30-item Scale were examined by using Cronbach's alpha and a principal components factor analysis with orthogonal rotation using varimax with Kaiser normalization; the rotation converged in seven iterations. Results of data analyses showed that overall reliability is high (0.85), and factor analyses revealed five orthogonal factors with high coefficient alphas—factors that represented relevant attitude constructs. This Scale may be used by educators at the senior high school and college levels to evaluate the effectiveness of different teaching/learning strategies in promoting positive student attitudes toward IT, and in improving learning among students. The Scale is unique in that it includes attitudes toward gender equality of opportunity in IT.

scholarly journals le of Technology In Education : A 21st Century Approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 1164-1168
Author(s):  
T. K. Tamhankar ◽  
V. I. Pujari ◽  
R. B. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Education System ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
21St Century Approach

The future of India will be formed in the lecture hall. Whereas India has made great steps in refining the education system but much still remains to be complete. If you see the current situation then you will find that there is a torrent of advanced technology all over the world but our education system is not helping due to the absence of information and information of teachers, students, and the organization. The students have their own limitations, teachers have their owned and the organization is also confessing the fact that the education system is really in a poor form today. The aim of this paper is to skeleton how information technology can help to make an education system that is based on the ideologies of helping teachers, students, and management to be effective in what they do, improving the superiority and significance of teaching-learning process.

scholarly journals Information Technology in Teaching and Learning French as a Foreign Language at the University of Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (26) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Nahed Emaish
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Power Point ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

This research aims to investigate to what extent students and professors at the University of Jordan use information technology in teaching and learning French. It also intends to evaluate the effect that IT tools have on the teaching/learning of this language at the Department of French at this university. The study sample was confined to (90) third-year students majoring in French. Another sample included all (8) professors in the department. The research method utilized two questionnaires, one for the professors and the other for students. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, and highlighting means and frequencies. The findings revealed that technology is used by the majority of students for such tasks as using online dictionaries, getting information for their projects and assignments and doing power point presentations. These activities play a part in developing their learning of the language. The findings also showed limitations in their interaction with native-speakers, use of social media, movies, and songs in the target language. As for the professors, the answers revealed that information technology is not often used in their courses. And when used, it is limited to e-mails or power-point presentations.

scholarly journals iWeek experience: the innovation challenges of digital transformation in industry

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vianney Lara-Prieto ◽  
Gilberto E. Flores-Garza
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Challenge Based Learning ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Global Company

AbstractInformation Technology, communication, and innovation require specific, essential competencies that employers look for in engineers. Responding to this, Tecnologico de Monterrey has been implementing the Tec21 Educational model to foster students' competencies by involving them in challenge-based learning (CBL). The iWeek is one of the first implementations of this model, where students experience immersive learning for a whole week. This study presents the iWeek Innovation Challenge to improve students' innovation and information technology and communication skills through a CBL didactic technique. During this iWeek, a group of students developed efficient solutions with Microsoft Power Apps to solve real challenges confronting a global company. The results proved that students could quickly learn and apply knowledge and develop practical, innovative solutions to real problems in Industry. It was a revelation to the stakeholders to notice how fast students can become familiar with new information technology tools to propose solutions that positively impact the company. Strong partnerships between academia and industry are crucial to developing student disciplinary and transversal competencies by challenging them to solve real-life problems in real-world environments. This work presents a roadmap for planning and designing a CBL iWeek with an educational partner from Industry. It includes the implementation details, assessment instruments, and results analysis. Finally, we also highlight the significant contributions of iWeek to explain the value of this immersive experience in the teaching–learning process.

scholarly journals IT teachers’ experience of teaching-learning strategies to promote critical thinking

10.28945/2124 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Mentz ◽  
Roxanne Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Pair Programming ◽  
Thinking Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers therefore need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching-learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By promoting critical thinking skills, IT learners have the opportunity to achieve greater success in the most difficult part of the curriculum, which is programming. IT teachers received a once-of face-to-face professional development where some teachers received professional development in critical thinking strategies and other IT teachers received professional development in critical thinking strategies infused in pair programming. To determine how teachers experience these suggested strategies, teachers participated in initial interviews as well as follow-up interviews after they had implemented the suggested strategies. From the interviews it became evident that teachers felt that their learners benefited from the strategies. Teachers in the pair programming infusing critical thinking strategies focused more on the pair programming implementation. Although teachers are initially willing to change their ways, they are not always willing to implement new teaching-learning strategies.

Directorate of Education, Delhi

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Rajeev Sharma ◽  
M. R. Dixit ◽  
Sanjay Verma
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Board Examination ◽  
Teaching Learning

The case describes changes brought about in academic and administrative aspects of the Directorate of Education, Delhi, after Ms. Rina Ray, a new secretary of education, took over. When she joined office, the overall enrolment in government schools, numbering more than 900, had been declining and less than 50% of children were passing in class X board examination. Within a period of four years, enrolment in government schools and pass percentage of children increased, and children and teachers gained recognition in sports and co-curricular activities. This was made possible by several mechanisms to facilitate and monitor performance of administrative and academic staff, by adopting information technology at all levels to facilitate administration, and improve teaching learning.

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