scholarly journals Information Communication Technology (ICT): The New Frontier of Child and Youth Care (CYC) Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-385
Author(s):  
Gerard Bellefeuille
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

This exploratory course-based research investigates the use of information communication technologies (ICT) by child and youth care (CYC) students in their interactions with children, youth, and families. Data were collected through an online mixed closed- and open-ended survey. The data analysis consisted of a descriptive statistical analysis of the survey’s closed-ended questions and a thematic analysis of the survey’s open-ended questions. The findings revealed that CYC students are using ICT in their interactions with children, youth, and families and that the potential positive use of ICT should be addressed in a more significant way in the classroom.

E-Government as a New Frontier for Legal Theory

2011 ◽  
pp. 3738-3746
Author(s):  
Keith Culver
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Student Demand

E-government has the potential to change fundamentally the organization of governments, and the governance practices used in relations with citizens and other governments. Legal theory is clearly affected by these changes. Yet there is no rush to publish on e-government in leading legal theory journals, and there is no visible surge in student demand for courses in e-government. Just as only some areas of governments in developed states have taken advantage of new information communication technologies, so only some areas of legal theory have engaged e-government. Issues in Internet governance and personal privacy dominate legal theory’s engagement with e-government, while e-engagement of citizens plays an increasingly important yet still limited role in governments’ interaction with citizens. Yet there are signs that this gentle pace may soon change, as leading jurisdictions approach completion of the first wave of service transformation at the same time as concerns regarding a digital divide recede under the growth of access to new information communication technologies. New opportunities for e-government may soon make e-government’s progress revolutionary rather than evolutionary, and legal theory will be forced to keep pace.

scholarly journals A heutagogical approach for the assessment of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) assignments in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lynch ◽  
Todd Sage ◽  
Laurel Iverson Hitchcock ◽  
Melanie Sage
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technology In Instruction

AbstractPedagogical foundations exist for incorporating technology in instruction; however, these foundations have not kept pace with technology's evolution. Through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), students now can share content directed at external audiences, i.e., audiences other than the instructor. These audiences are referred to as authentic audiences as they are public-facing and exist outside of the classroom. The existing literature offers evidence of student satisfaction with assignments directed at appealing to external audiences, however, the literature provides no comprehensive pedagogical rationale for assignments directed at authentic audiences wherein the goals are self-determined. The authors discuss the theory of heutagogy, the study of self-determined learning, as an approach for assessing assignments that utilize ICTs and are directed at authentic audiences. Finally, the authors offer an approach for the assessment of these assignments, including a rubric.

E-Government as a New Frontier for Legal Theory

2011 ◽  
pp. 495-500
Author(s):  
K. Culver
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Student Demand

E-government has the potential to change fundamentally the organization of governments, and the governance practices used in relations with citizens and other governments. Legal theory is clearly affected by these changes. Yet there is no rush to publish on e-government in leading legal theory journals, and there is no visible surge in student demand for courses in e-government. Just as only some areas of governments in developed states have taken advantage of new information communication technologies, so only some areas of legal theory have engaged e-government. Issues in Internet governance and personal privacy dominate legal theory’s engagement with e-government, while e-engagement of citizens plays an increasingly important yet still limited role in governments’ interaction with citizens. Yet there are signs that this gentle pace may soon change, as leading jurisdictions approach completion of the first wave of service transformation at the same time as concerns regarding a digital divide recede under the growth of access to new information communication technologies. New opportunities for e-government may soon make e-government’s progress revolutionary rather than evolutionary, and legal theory will be forced to keep pace.

scholarly journals The Applicability of Internet Voting in Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sambo
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Internet Voting ◽  
African Context

The covid-19 pandemic has brought about new ways of conducting business through the use of Information Communication Technologies and elections have not been spared either. Internet voting is another form of strengthening democracy through the use of Information Communication Technologies. Africa lags in the implementation of electronic voting, especially Internet voting. This chapter applied a critical socio-technical analysis that analyses factors that influence the applicability of Internet voting within the African context. The researcher applied desktop research which included 30 journals to gather data from the Internet and other documentation sources. The findings reveal that decision-makers can partially implement Internet voting in some of the countries in Africa like Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Morocco, Mauritius, Tunisia, and Seychelles. To successfully implement Internet voting, the decision-makers in African nations have to fully invest in the Information Communication Technology infrastructure, provide the necessary security, legislation and carry out intensive voter education to build trust among voters.

Social Policy and Information Communication Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Henman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
National Income ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Income Security

This chapter examines the contribution of information communication technology (ICT) to the operation of social and public policy. The governmentality analytic is introduced as a way in which to highlight how ICT is used by the state in governing populations. The chapter identifies four ways ICTs relate to social and public policy. First, social policy can be a response to ICT innovation and use. Second, ICT is used to implement and administer social policy. Third, ICT is used to develop and evaluate social policy. Fourth, the use of ICT can shape the very nature and substance of social policy. The chapter illustrates these theoretical and conceptual approaches by examining the extensive and innovative use of ICT in Australia’s national income security agency, Centrelink.

scholarly journals INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY PENETRATION INTO EDUCATION: SOME THOUGHTS

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Vincentas Lamanauskas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Computer Technologies

Over the last decade the spread of information communication technologies has been growing very rapidly both in quantitative and qualitative meaning. Not only new, innovative technologies, but also various people communication forms based on these technologies have appeared. Here, it is spoken about so-called social networking websites. Their rapid development raises certain anxiousness as well. Education, as one of society life spheres, can’t stay apart. The penetration of technologies in education is very great. The number of computers and computer technologies is expanding not only in educational offices, but also in the environment of every of us: homes, working places and so on. The youth is a very receptive group of society in this respect, seeking to try the newest technologies as quickly as possible. The majority of pupils spend quite a big part of time working on computers and using other computer technologies. It must be accentuated, that very often such kind of activity is not directly related with learning and self-education in a wider sense. It is obvious, that penetration of technologies enables educational community to work differently, to change educational process, to search for new approaches and so on.

The use of Information Technology as Tools of Developing Educational Communications for Realizing the Personal Potential of University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Andrey Ivanovich Shutenko ◽  
◽  
Elena Nikolaevn Shutenko ◽  
Julia Petrovna Derevyanko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Informational Environment

The article is devoted to the problem of educational communications development as a sphere of implementation of modern information-communication technologies in the higher education system. The purpose of the article is to present the structure and functions of educational communications aimed at the development of personal potential and self-realization of students. Methodology. The study is based on the methodology of personal and communicative-informational approaches in education, psychological-pedagogical provisions on the structure of communication, the leading role of learning activity, didactic principles of building an educational-informational environment. In theoretical terms, the study is based on the idea of the indirect implementation of ICT in education through the development of educational communications. The developing structure of educational communications, including didactic, informational-gnostic, interactive, psychological, attractive-motivational, value-semantic components, is presented. The possibilities of developing personal potential in educational communications are considered. The author’s developmental model of ICT functions is presented, which includes clusters of actual and latent functions aimed at the formation of information-educational space for the development of students’ personal potential. In conclusion, a inference was made about the prospects of the indirect introduction of modern ICT as tools for the development and functioning of various educational communications. At the same time, it is essential that these communications perform psychological and pedagogical tasks and functions.

scholarly journals The intercultural component in an EFL course-book package

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Sociocultural Background

Abstract Along with mastery of the grammar and vocabulary of a given language, contemporary students are also expected to acquire intercultural communicative competence (ICC), i.e., the ability to use the language efficiently with regard to the sociocultural background of the communicative situation. This requirement should also be reflected in FL course-books, which are considered to be fundamental didactic tools in FL education, even in an era of information communication technologies. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to report the results of the research focused on the investigation of intercultural component in the New Opportunities Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate course-book packages. To validate the findings of the content analysis, as the main research method, the method of triangulation was used, i.e., the results of the course-book package analyses were compared with those of observation and interview analyses. The findings of the research revealed that in the investigated course-book packages only some aspects of the intercultural component could be considered relevant because they were suitably treated.

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