The work below examines the attitudes and beliefs that secondary teachers have about the use of Internet resources in their practices. It is presented results obtained from a questionnaire (n=1,721) with different dimensions, obtaining data about teachers’ attitudes and reasons with respect to the use of Internet resources, respect to teachers’ tasks employed for and […]
The Educational Role of the Digital Media in the Integration of Immigrants in Spain: elmundo.es and elpais.com
The objective of the present study is to highlight the importance of online newspapers in the formation of public opinion, by discovering whether they promote positive or negative attitudes towards immigration or contribute to increasing awareness about the impact of the digital press in educational and developmental terms. With this in mind, we carried out […]
E-Skills Week Highlights Need for More Digital Skills to Access Labour Market
In 2015, 90 percent of all jobs across all job sectors will require digital skills. As Europe is transforming itself into a knowledge-based economy, positions requiring high level skills and education will rise from 25 percent to 31 percent. Despite the economic crisis and higher unemployment rates across Europe, the ICT workforce is still increasing […]
d’CATCH Project
This project has been designed to implement and learn about “Media Literacy” and “Cross- cultural Communication and Understanding” through exchange and joint creation of video pictures cross- culturally. In the globalized media society of Asia, diversity of media and coexistence of cultures is studies based on the cross-border media created by students.
The Hunger Games: Life, Death and the Media
“The Hunger Games” opened this past weekend to record box office, as expected. The best-selling book continues its huge attraction, but now, on the big screen. By now, you’ve heard or read about the story: the annual televised games, in a post-apocalyptic world, a fight to the death involving two teenagers, Katniss Everdeen (actress Jennifer […]
An Educational Technology Bill of Rights Targets Censorship in Schools
Widespread public outrage over SOPA rallied Americans against the threat of internet censorship. But though the bill may be dead, there’s plenty of censorship happening every day in our nation’s public schools. Schools ban students from accessing websites from National Geographic to YouTube and Wikipedia, and all too often choose to confiscate smartphones and tablets […]
Why South Korea Is Putting the Brakes on the Switch to Digital Textbooks
Last summer, South Korea’s Education Ministry announced plans to replace hardback textbooks with electronic readers and digital editions by 2015, at a cost of $2.4 billion. But after South Korean educators expressed concerns about the potential negative effects of too much screen time, the government is putting the brakes on going fully digital
Can Computers Enable Students to Teach Themselves?
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University and visiting professor at M.I.T., talks about how his Hole in the Wall Experiment helped poor children in the slums of Hyderabad, India teach themselves English. Giving them access to tools like computers, Mitra showed that uneducated, non-English speaking children could work in small groups and […]
Youth Empowerment Project
The Youth Empowerment Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, was initiated in 1998 by teens to address the gaps of diversity and youth involvement in the service, civic engagement, philanthropy and decision-making life of their communities. All YEP projects reflect a commitment to investing in Youth-Powered Solutions™ and are driven by individual initiative, teamwork and youth-adult partnerships. […]
European Youth Parliament
The EYP represents a non-partisan and independent educational project which is tailored specifically to the needs of the young European citizen.——————— The EYP encourages independent thinking and socio-political initiative in young people and facilitates the learning of crucial social and professional skills. Since its inauguration, many tens of thousands of young people have taken part […]
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