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Cell Phones Are Ringing, Will Educators Hear?, Rebecca Fortner
Cell Phones Are Ringing, Will Educators Hear?, Rebecca Fortner
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Teachers often participate in professional development opportunities to remain on top of the technology used to teach their students. Staying on top of this technology assures that students will be able to compete in the world work force and maintain the technological standards comparable to the rest of the world. A technology that has increasingly integrated itself into the lives of students and often misunderstood and underused by educators is the cell phone.
Effective Ways To Teach Mathematics, Dana Harwell, Sallie Harper
Effective Ways To Teach Mathematics, Dana Harwell, Sallie Harper
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of simulation on technical college auto-mechanics trade students’ academic achievement in Lagos State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to determine whether: (1) There is any significant difference in the mean achievement scores of auto-mechanics students taught using simulation method and those taught using lecture method. (2) There is any significant difference in the mean achievement scores of high ability and low ability auto-mechanics students taught using simulation method.
Computer Technology Integration Into The Public School Classroom – A Qualitative Update, Ramiro Zuniga
Computer Technology Integration Into The Public School Classroom – A Qualitative Update, Ramiro Zuniga
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The number of computers found in public schools has greatly increased over the last forty years. As recognized by the National Center for Education Statistics (2000), the dramatic increase has led to a need for understanding how these computers are being used in the classroom and how teachers feel about the current state of integration. Some observers of this phenomenon have suggested that the desire to acquire computer technology for use in the public school classroom has been so strong that many of the proponents of computer technology integration into the public school classroom have spent little time in explaining …
Online Education: A Growing Educational Paradigm Looking For An Administrative Structure, Tweed W. Ross
Online Education: A Growing Educational Paradigm Looking For An Administrative Structure, Tweed W. Ross
Educational Considerations
No doubt about it: online education, by its various names, is a growing phenomenon in both K-12 and higher educational across the country.
Pk-12 Virtual Schools: The Challenges And Roles Of School Leaders, Jesus Abrego Jr., Anita Pankake
Pk-12 Virtual Schools: The Challenges And Roles Of School Leaders, Jesus Abrego Jr., Anita Pankake
Educational Considerations
According to Jacobsen, Clifford and Friesen (2002), the expansion of instructional technology is due in part to an increase in demand by local communities to make sure that local schools are effectively preparing students for the technological challenges of the 21st century.
Gender, Academic Qualification And Subject Discipline Differentials Of Nigerian Teachers’ Ict Literacy, Alaba Agbatogun
Gender, Academic Qualification And Subject Discipline Differentials Of Nigerian Teachers’ Ict Literacy, Alaba Agbatogun
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The world is seemingly experiencing a third wave of social and technological transformation as the society is becoming more oriented to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT is one of the various factors that are drastically influencing occupational success especially in the educational sector. Adamu (2004) sees ICT as a set of technological tools and resources used to communicate and create, disseminate, to store and manage information. The information dissemination is easily possible through computer technologies. Markauskaite (2006) opines that the introduction of computer technology into teaching and learning is a giant stride towards improving the quality of education. …
New Technologies And Leadership Training, Jowati Juhary
New Technologies And Leadership Training, Jowati Juhary
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
e-Learning and simulations are amongst new technologies that receive both praises and criticisms. Because of their potential, many educational institutions are attracted to implement and use them. On the other hand, because of their costs, many academics are sceptical about these new tools. Apart from the costs, many scholars argue about the effectiveness of e-learning and simulations in improving students’ grades. Actually, there is no guarantee that any one learning and teaching tool could help students perform better academically. That is why it is always a wise decision to blend the teaching and learning approaches.
Strategizing For Economic Rehabilitation And Self-Reliance In Nigeria: The Need For Indigenous Technology, Jacobson Nbina, B. Viko
Strategizing For Economic Rehabilitation And Self-Reliance In Nigeria: The Need For Indigenous Technology, Jacobson Nbina, B. Viko
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Technology may be defined as modern machines, equipment, tools and associated knowledge, techniques may be defined as modern machines, equipment, tools and associated knowledge, techniques and processes involved in the making, using and maintaining these gadgets in producing goods and services for man’s consumption. It is technology viewed thus, that accounts for the speed of delivery, the quantity and quality and other attributes of goods and services which a modern society enjoys. Indigenous technology means technology as defined above with the additional condition that it is developed by an indigenous people (in this case Nigerians) through a process that would …
Technological Innovations And In The Banking Sector: An Evaluation Of The Rate Of Diffusion Of The Automated Teller Machine, Igwe Chinedu
Technological Innovations And In The Banking Sector: An Evaluation Of The Rate Of Diffusion Of The Automated Teller Machine, Igwe Chinedu
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The internet widely regarded as the third wave of revolution, (after the industrial revolution and the agricultural revolution) heralds the age of electronic revolution and is fast becoming the central nervous system of a universal consumer marketplace and an essential means of conducting and coordinating business activities. For the banking sector, the internet marks the transition from the brick and mortar stage of banking to the branchless stage. In a word, Information Technology (IT) has moderated the constraints of time, space, and information access in world trade and commerce as a whole. The growing popularity of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) …
Technology Transfer And Human Resource Constraints And Challenges: A Note To The Developing World, Kwasi Dartey-Baah
Technology Transfer And Human Resource Constraints And Challenges: A Note To The Developing World, Kwasi Dartey-Baah
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
capable and sophisticated. Although countries like Brazil, China and India have made significant strides, most African countries have fallen behind in this journey. The good thing is, with globalisation and free trade; certain technologies previously controlled by certain developed countries are finding their way into the developing world markets without the associated costs. For example, some multinationals now invest in developing countries in order to obtain a base for export to other subregions and by doing so make available aspects of their technologies. The opportunity developing countries have is to create an environment which would attract multinationals to invest into …