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Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction - 4 views

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literacy literacy skills skills technology

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  • An authentic use of technology is using it as a tool to accomplish a complex task; for example, students who are creating a written report might use the Internet for research, word-processing software to write and format the text, and hypermedia software to add images. Therefore, it makes sense to consider the variety of uses as they illustrate best practices
  • Technologies That Support Students' Reading Development
  • Audiobooks promote students' interest in reading and improve their comprehension of text, notes Beers (1998). They also have been used successfully by students who cannot read traditional printed books because of visual or physical handicaps.
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  • audiobooks help improve children's reading skills
  • electronic books always provide the text in a visual component. Some electronic books incorporate text enhancements, such as definitions of words or background information on ideas. Others offer illustrations that complement the story
  • With access to an Internet-connected computer, students can find a wide variety of free online reading materials, including books, plays, short stories, magazines, and reference materials. This benefit is especially useful for students in schools that have few resources for the acquisition of new books
  • The use of hypermedia to improve student comprehension of text likely is related to its ability to respond to the needs of an individual learner for information, which results in an increased sense of control over the learning environment and higher levels of intrinsic motivation (Becker & Dwyer, 1994)
  • electronic talking books
  • may provide an effective means for increasing decoding skills and reading fluency
  • increase motivation to read as well as promote basic word recognition.
  • an aid to help children improve their comprehension of texts
  • The computer program helped the children learn to discriminate and sequence the sound in words, which improved their word-reading ability.
  • Programmed Reading Instruction
  • word-processing tools such as spelling checkers are useful aids that improve the quality of student writing. Research indicates that students who are comfortable with word processing write longer papers, spend more time writing and revising, and show improved mechanics and word choice (Lehr, 1995)
  • promotes collaborative writing among students
  • Desktop Publishing of Student Work
  • they can gain practice in desktop-publishing their reports, stories, and poems
  • technology encourages students to integrate visual and aural multimedia in their school projects
  • presents a means of self-expression and provides support for development of reading and writing skills.
  • Providing opportunities for online publishing of students' work is another means to motivate student writing
  • promote student writing is through electronic mail (e-mail), electronic bulletin boards, and e-mail lists
  • Writing to an authentic reader has a positive effect on students' writing performance and motivation
  • (Reinking & Bridwell-Bowles, 1996). "Simple exchanges of e-mail can get students writing and reading with the same intensity they bring to the most exciting video game," note Meyer and Rose (2000). "Receiving feedback from across the globe conveys to young children the power of reading and writing and demonstrates their ultimate purpose—to communicate across time and space.
  • Use of the Internet search engines can promote students' research and investigation skills and enable them to locate online information on any possible topic
  • evaluate online information sources is gaining importance as a basic literacy skill
  • Educational technology is nudging literacy instruction beyond its oral and print-based tradition to embrace online and electronic texts as well as multimedia. Computers are creating new opportunities for writing and collaborating. The Internet is constructing global bridges for students to communicate, underscoring the need for rock-solid reading and writing skills. By changing the way that information is absorbed, processed, and used, technology is influencing how people read, write, listen, and communicate.
  • Literacy instruction traditionally refers to the teaching of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In today's digital world, however, technology has contributed to an expanded understanding of literacy. Besides having basic literacy skills, today's students also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing and using information, computing, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media, and understanding and evaluating data. As policymakers and educators ponder what it means to be literate in a digitized society, an array of literacy definitions is emerging
Jessica Hernandez

Where to find the best answers is a skill unto itself - 0 views

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Literacy technology literacy skills education learning internet

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  • Julien has studied the need for critical information literacy skills and how these skills can be learned and appliedInformation literacy is actually a refined term for an old concept that librarians have modified to fit the staggering range of information sources available over the Internet.
  • "Accessing good information is critical to skill development."Julien notes that an Internet search on a specific topic can generate results that lead to high-quality sites with legitimate content, but the better information sources can often get buried in a lengthy list of less reliable results.
Jessica Hernandez

http://www.ns.literacy.ca/docs/Improving_literacy_with_technology.pdf - 1 views

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  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    > The Internet makes available many applications that help build reading  and writing skills, many of them free. In many cases, applications are so easy to use that learners can use them independently, with perhaps just a little guidance from someone more knowledgeable about reading and computers.  > The benefits are easy to see: when a person uses online resources to develop literacy skills, it also builds confidence in using computers and helps the learner to master digital literacy skills.  > View all the online sources that help with literacy that are available online. 
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I originally found this article through LexisNexis, but it wasn't letting me highlight to bookmark so I found a PDF of the article through Google. http://www.lexisnexis.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/lnacui2api/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T20047563701&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T20047563705&cisb=22_T20047563704&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=397220&docNo=24 APA Citation for Lexis Nexis Link: (January 12, 2011 Wednesday ). Improving literacy with technology. Ottawa Citizen, Retrieved from www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic PDF Citation: The Ottawa Citizen (2011, January 12). Improving literacy with technology. Retrieved June 11, 2014, from http://www.ns.literacy.ca/docs/Improving_literacy_with_technology.pdf
jleemuthart

How The Internet Saved Literacy - Forbes - 1 views

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literacy technology education literacy skills

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  • The Internet has shortened the feedback loop on writing and has made readers more active participants, says Matt Kirschenbaum, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland.
  • Indeed, despite fears that the Internet would stunt the reading of books, the sale of books has continued to trend upward over the past several years.
  • jleemuthart on 11 Jun 14
     
    I am not sure if this pertains to 'literacy skills'. Are we supposed to be talking about DIGITAL literacy skills specifically? Cause the statement we are supposed to support seems to make that unclear.
  • hauted on 11 Jun 14
     
    I don't think it is DIGITAL literacy skills specifically. I think its just literacy skills and how technology that accesses the internet affects those skills. I also think this article does have a good correlation as it relates to increased internet use has not led to decline in book sales.
mandyyim8

Can social networking boost literacy skills? - 1 views

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  • According to these studies, 20 per cent of students never read fiction or nonfiction books, but about 67 per cent surf websites weekly, 55 per cent read e-mails and 46 per cent read blogs.
    • hauted
      hauted on 11 Jun 14
       
      I think this is an important statistic that illustrates clearly how access to technology increases literacy.
    • mandyyim8
      mandyyim8 on 11 Jun 14
       
      I like that idea
  • The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities
  • students who use technology-based texts such as blogs have more positive attitudes toward writing.
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  • The study also showed that students who write blogs or maintain a profile on a social networking site tend to be more confident about their writing ability
  • Students who are active online are significantly more likely to keep a journal or write short stories, letters or song lyrics than those without a social networking presence
  • Dr. Spencer Jordan, a creative writing teacher in the School of Education at the University of Wales, notes that web ­technologies encourage young people to write confidently about things they enjoy
  • ncouraging students to share their writing boosts their confidence in their writing abilities
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    APA Citation: Alberta Teachers' Association (2010, October 8). Can social networking boost literacy skills? Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/The%20Learning%20Team/Volume-14/Number-1/Pages/Can-social-networking-boost-literacy-skills.aspx
jleemuthart

Using the Internet to Develop Literacy Skills - 1 views

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  • One of the ways in which the internet is used in schools is to support the literacy development of children.
  • New ideas about teaching and supporting children with their literacy development can be read on articles and research papers that are easily accessible on the internet.
  • Many websites offer free, printable resources that can be used to support literacy development.
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  • The internet can also be useful in finding materials that specifically target children who have been identified in having difficulties with their literacy development.
  • For example, some will target reading skills, whilst others will focus on spelling or handwriting.
  • Many children do not enjoy their education or any learning tasks. This may be particularly the case with those who have difficulty in attaining literacy skills. One of the ways in which problem can be combated is to make this fun. The internet can be a particularly useful tool in achieving this. Type literacy games into the toolbar of your search engine and it will come up with a large number of websites that offer activities which are both fun and educational.
  • There are games on the internet that suit all ages and ability levels.
  • The internet can also provide homeschoolers with a wealth of free resources that will ensure that their child has the appropriate materials for learning.
  • jleemuthart on 11 Jun 14
     
    School
mandyyim8

Internet navigation and information search strategies: how do children are ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The internet can be a powerful pedagogic tool, when used with proper methodology, objectives, clear and realistic goals and harnessing it's added value for learning. This might help both the quality and diversity of classroom learning experiences to be more pertinent, significant, joyful, constructive and contextualized
    • mandyyim8
      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      There are three kinds of internet users: beginners, advanced and experts. Beginner users are those who have basic knowledge on ICT tools, but do not manage on information selection and search systems. As a consequence, they do not successfully slove the information  needs presented to them. The Advanced users have knowledge for using tools, but they are not strategic in searching. This user is known to be a clever person, who easily use the computer at a basic level, enough to move comfortably on the internet, as well as other pieces of commonly used software. While navigating they behave low skilled and they do not know whether by not knowing or even by comfort and frequently operate in the same way. Most of the time, they can complete the searching tasks but, by being low in strategic terms they take more time and effort to achieve them.  Expert user are those who handle searching tools and moreover, they do it strategically, performing such tasks with full domain and comfort on the Internet, performing consciously intended searches, in a complex and flexible way
    • mandyyim8
      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The PdBP is an educational project supported by ICT that aims to unite technology and pedagogy to respond to the need to renew the teaching-learning methods and adaptation of the education system to the demands of society information. 
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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The results of this study  have allowed the confirmation that the systematic contact along a structure, planned and constant in time educational ICT project provides advantages in several scopes of the student training
    • mandyyim8
      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      PdBP students (students that were in the study) is possibly attributable to the level of experience in the present sample of participants, who often use the Internet as part of their school work and who have had many years of exposure and opportunities for informal training in the use of Internet. The results of the students show that this kind of support in infrastructure, Internet connectivity and support for the teachers in their schools can provide a valuable context for teaching and learning Web literacy skills
  • mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
     
    A study on children using technology understanding the way they attain literacy skills
hauted

Using Technology to improve the Literacy Skills of Disabled Students - 0 views

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  • hauted on 11 Jun 14
     
    Definition of Literacy Skills - "Literacy skills consist of the ability to think, listen, speak, and read and write effectively."
  • hauted on 11 Jun 14
     
    This article also mentions a online service called www.bookshare.org that provides digital books to person with disabilities. Also there is programs like www.rfbd.org (recordings for the blind and dyslexic) and www.loc.gov/nls (Talking Books at the National Library Service) that they can access online have have Audio cassettes or CDs mailed to them postage-free. Even though libraries have had this content for a while the internet makes it much more accessible than ever before. I think thats the core of how technology though the internet increases literacy skills. It gives us "fingertip" access to things we would have had to physically travel for. Digital copies of books that make not even be in local library systems are easily accessible online.
hauted

Using Technology To Improve Literacy Skills - YouTube - 0 views

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      hauted on 11 Jun 14
       
      This teacher talks about how technology has changed the way she teaches literacy skills and her argument that tech has made it  better cause student don't have to spend as much time gathering information. Instead they spend more time digesting information.
  • National Louis University's Katie McKnight, Ph.D., associate professor in the National College of Education, says teachers should embrace new technologies as tools to enhance students' literacy skill development.
Jessica Hernandez

Multi Media Comes of Age: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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Literacy technology internet literacy skills learning

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  • The skills and talents required for success in the 21st century have made their entrance on cue, as literacy moves beyond reading and writing to embrace the full spectrum of digital media.
  • Our focus on communication skills and expanded literacy comes from these efforts to improve performance. So the technology in our multimedia and technology initiative has a purpose, a vital role in helping everyone meet these goals.
  • these are all examples of how the multimedia technology we've acquired through this initiative has been integrated into the daily life of our school.
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  • he company is pursuing a strategy that capitalizes on the networking investments made by schools, which, by now, have resulted in nearly all schools being connected to the Internet
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    APA Citation: Gold, R., & Serim, F. (2002). Multi Media Comes of Age. (cover story). Multimedia Schools, 9(2), 14.
Jessica Hernandez

4. Making Movies: Digital Video Production in the School Library Program: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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Literacy technology literacy skills internet

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  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    View PDF for full text, but here is some of the things I would highlight: > And like anything on the Internet, it makes "consider the source" the best possible advice for Internet users.  > We need to focus on the media literacy skills necessary to decode images, and therefore empower students to make decisions about the validity of multimedia as well as text content.  > While all of this obviously increases the likelihood of students being  misled by misinformation, the other side of the story is the tremendous opportunity it provides for students to find an authentic audience for their own work.
Jessica Hernandez

How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development - 0 views

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Literacy technology literacy skills internet learning

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  • Although literacy learning on the Internet involves the basic processes of comprehending and writing text, it differs from print-based literacy
  • Reading and writing text online is highly interactive. Writing becomes more fluent as students engage in online dialogues
  • Information research becomes a critical reading process useful for sorting through volumes of online texts to find and synthesize reliable data, rather than a memorization of the print encyclopedia.
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  • Reading through hypertexts or interactive multimedia is an active process in which the reader develops an internal narrator who synthesizes meaning and decides which link to follow next and why.
  • I had seen and heard much about the impact of computers on literacy, but the Internet seemed to make a quantum leap over word processing and interactive multimedia CD-ROMs.
  • Teachers said they observed that Internet-based activities make reading enjoyable for students
  • Internet use enables students to engage in collaborative discussions and authentic information research experiences that enhance understanding of content.
  • Our results also indicated that higher-order literacy skills, such as organizing information research around a research question, comparing and contrasting, and evaluating and synthesizing information into new and meaningful structures, are important uses of the Internet in literacy education.
  • found three primary areas in which the Internet provides curricular benefits.
  • fostering self-directed literacy learning habits among students, which researchers and teachers indicated are not only vital to, but also achievable through, Internet-based literacy learning.
  • This chapter includes a discussion of the vital role the Internet plays in literacy education for students growing up to live and work in networked cultures of the 21st century as well as historical and cultural technology trends that influence the current nature of literacy and approaches to learning.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I found this through a Google search, but it's an excerpt from an actual book about literacy and the internet, so I thought this would be a credible source to use. Has a lot of good information on a study that was made. APA Citation: McNabb, M. L., Thurber, B. B., Dibuz, B., McDermott, P., & Lee, C. (2006). How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.learningauge.org/literacy.html
Stephen Brantley

Internet contributing to increased literacy of disabled individuals - 0 views

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  • Stephen Brantley on 13 Jun 14
     
    how the use of applications have become a huge part of speech therapy dealing with autistic children and adults among other disabilities and therapies.
juacenta

Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It? | LD Topics | LD OnLine - 2 views

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  • How can technology support learners?
    • juacenta
      juacenta on 12 Jun 14
       
      References National Center for Technology Innovation and Center for Implementing Technology in Education (2010). Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It? | LD Topics | LD OnLine. Retrieved June 6, 12, from http://www.ldonline.org/article/35792
  • Video supports, how-to diagrams and animated illustrations. Visuals are a fantastic tool for building background knowledge,
  • Spell checkers.
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  • Word prediction software.
  • Voice recognition software. For students who have severe dysgraphia or spelling disabilities that inhibit their writing, using voice recognition software may offer an alternative way to input their thoughts.
  • Annotations and study skill features. Literacy software with text-to-speech and study skill features can assist learners to be active readers.
  • Definitions, translations, and explanations are now a click away.
jleemuthart

LexisNexis® Academic & Library Solutions - 0 views

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  • Margaret Atwood, one of Canada's top writers, told a Toronto audience Monday that Twitter and the Internet help literacy.
  • "Thanks to the rise of the internet and of social media, 'I would say that reading, as such, has increased. And reading and writing skills have probably increased because what all this texting and so forth replaced was the telephone conversation,' she continued. 'People have to actually be able to read and write to use the internet, so it's a great literacy driver if kids are given the tools and the incentive to learn the skills that allow them to access it.' "
jleemuthart

Can Social Networking Boost Literacy Skills? - 0 views

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  • Teenagers may not be reading books, but they are clearly interested in social networking. So the question becomes whether social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube are harming students or helping them.
  • The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities.
  • The study also showed that students who write blogs or maintain a profile on a social networking site tend to be more confident about their writing ability. More than 60 per cent of students who blog and 56 per cent of students who have a profile on a social networking site claim to be “good” or “very good” writers, compared with only 47 per cent of those who don’t use online formats. Having a blog also affects writing behaviour. Students who are active online are significantly more likely to keep a journal or write short stories, letters or song lyrics than those without a social networking presence.
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  • Whereas 60 per cent of bloggers say that they enjoy writing, only 40 per cent of nonbloggers find writing enjoyable.
  • He notes, “When I was a kid, I used to write in exercise books kept in a drawer, but now that young people write on the web, there’s a whole community out there to read their work. It’s interactive, and that makes it more appealing to them.” Jordan believes that encouraging students to share their writing boosts their confidence in their writing abilities.
  • Research suggests that young people who blog are reading and are becoming more confident writers.
  • jleemuthart on 11 Jun 14
     
    Facebook, Twitter, & Blogs
jleemuthart

Teaching with the Internet - 0 views

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  • increasingly clear that networked, digital technologies provide rapid access to vast amounts of information, increasing the importance of effective information use (Harrison & Stephen, 1996).
  • the globally competitive context in which we find ourselves ensures that new technologies for information and communication will continually be developed, resulting in continuously changing literacies and envisionments for literacy.
    • jleemuthart
      jleemuthart on 11 Jun 14
       
      Does 'changing' mean 'increasing'?
  • Information economies, global competition, changes in workplace settings, and new national policy initiatives make solid research, especially in educational settings, critically important as we seek insights into preparing children for their literacy futures. We require useful data in order to prepare students for new technologies and new envisionments as we explore the boundaries of an information society, increasingly dependent on networked, digital technologies for information and communication
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  • Newer technologies, permitting greater control by both teachers and students as they navigate rich information resources and construct meanings appropriate to their teaching and learning needs, may permit us to overcome a fundamental paradox clear to many who studied the use of previous technologies in classrooms:
  • students who used hypermedia from an Integrated Learning System, while working within collaborative learning groups, reported significantly more positive attitudes about both math and computer math lessons than did students who worked alone using the same computer software. 
  • appropriately combined images and sound may enhance both the comprehension and the production of tex
  • If technologies continually change in the years ahead, it may become increasingly important to study teachers' envisionments of these technologies for literacy and learning. 
Stephen Brantley

Rosseta stone expanding to k-12 learning - 1 views

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  • Stephen Brantley on 13 Jun 14
     
    Rosetta stone is another form of how digital literacy has broken through barriers that even some of the greatest teachers are unable to scratch. it shows that digital literacy has brought forth a whole new level of learning to people far and wide with several different languages. there is no compression
Jessica Hernandez

Literacy | Define Literacy at Dictionary.com - 0 views

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Literacy definition knowledge literacy skills

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  • literacy
  • especially the ability to read and write.
  • a person's knowledge of a particular subject or field: to acquire computer literacy.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I believe by showing the definition of the term literacy, that it's not only reading and writing, but knowledge in a topic itself, we can prove that the internet has much to offer on learning about specific subjects; when of course making sure the sources are credible. APA Citation: literacy. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literacy
Jessica Hernandez

AN INVESTIGATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' USE OF COMPUTER APPLIC...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • computer literacy
  • Results demonstrated that improving the computer literacy of science teachers seems to increase science teachers' computer use and consequently increase their integration of computer applications as an instructional tool. Internet, email, and educational software CDs found to have high percentage in teachers' use of computer applications in the classrooms.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    APA Style Citation: Ocak, M., & Akdemir, O. (2008). AN INVESTIGATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' USE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS. Turkish Online Journal Of Educational Technology, 7(4), 54-60. I found this article using one of the library resources.
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