Preparing for Life in a Digital World

Preparing for Life in a Digital World
Author: Julian Fraillon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783030387808

This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for successful participation in an increasingly digital world. ICILS 2018 explores international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL), namely their ability to use computers to investigate, create, and communicate at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the community. Participating countries also had an option to administer an assessment of students’ computational thinking (CT), focused on their ability to recognize aspects of real-world problems appropriate for computational formulation, and to evaluate and develop algorithmic solutions to those problems, so that the solutions could be operationalized with a computer. The data collected by ICILS 2018 show how digital competencies can be assessed using instruments representing authentic contexts for ICT use, and how students’ CIL and CT skills relate to school learning experiences, out-of-school contexts, and student characteristics. Those data also show how learning technologies are used in classrooms around the world. Background questionnaires asked students about their use of ICT, and collected information from teachers, schools, and national education systems about the resourcing and teaching of CIL (and CT) within their countries. The results of ICILS 2018 will enable policymakers and education systems to develop a better understanding of the contexts and outcomes of CIL (and CT) education programs.

IGCSE Information and Communication Technology

IGCSE Information and Communication Technology
Author: Graham Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780340983829

Please note this title is still being made available for students sitting their examinations in 2015. Our second edition supports the updated syllabus for first examination 2016. Textbook and free CD-ROM, endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations for the IGCSE syllabus in Information and Communication Technology (0417) for final examination 2015. - Written by experienced examiners and teachers, who bring a wealth of theoretical knowledge and practical experience to both the book and the CD - Ensures that students are fully prepared for both the written theory paper as well as the two practical papers. - Each Section of the syllabus is fully covered in the text book, with clear explanations and plenty of tasks and activities. - The CD contains source files for the tasks and activities, as well as examination-style questions (with model answers) and a glossary.

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 78

ICT4Ag (ICT Update) 78
Author:
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT4Ag is a bimonthly printed and on-line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying e-mail newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on building resilience for family farming.

Getting It Right Teacher Support Packs 2 Levels 4-5

Getting It Right Teacher Support Packs 2 Levels 4-5
Author: Alison Page
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780748744244

This teacher's support pack is one of a series of support materials and textbooks designed to help pupils to develop their IT capability and apply ICT across all subject areas. It aims to explain how to use word processing, spreadsheet, database, control, graphics and communications software as well as how to solve problems and develop IT capability, including the use of ICT to find things out, to develop ideas and make things happen, to share information and to review, modify and evaluate work as it progresses. This pack provides a wide range of support resources for pupils and teachers including: Units of work (Lesson plans), worksheets (support and extension) and cross-curricular applications. Assessment resources are unit tasks, assessment checklists and evaluation sheets.

Teaching ICT

Teaching ICT
Author: Carl Simmons
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847872549

Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book helps you develop into a reflective teacher of ICT. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills and examples of how experienced teachers deliver successful lessons. The book shows you how to plan lessons, how to make good use of resources, and how to assess pupils' progress effectively. Each chapter contains points for reflection, which encourage you to break off from your reading and think about the challenging questions that you face as a new teacher. The book comes with access to a companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/secondary.

Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies

Engaged Learning with Emerging Technologies
Author: D. Hung
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2006-07-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402036698

Gerry Stahl Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA The theme of engaged learning with emerging technology is a timely and important one. This book proclaims the global relevance of the topic and sharpens its focus. I would like to open the book by sketching some of the historical context and dimensions of application, before the chapter authors provide the substance. Engagement with the world - To be human is to be engaged with other people in the world. Yet, there has been a dominant strain of thought, at least in the West, that directs attention primarily to the isolated individual as naked mind. From classical Greece to modern times, engagement in the daily activities of human existence has been denigrated. Plato (340 BC/1941) banished worldly engagement to a realm of shadows, removed from the bright light of ideas, and Descartes (1633/1999) even divorced our minds from our own bodies. It can be suggested that this is a particularly Western tendency, supportive of the emphasis on the individual agent in Christianity and capitalism. But the view of people as originally unengaged has spread around the globe to the point where it is now necessary everywhere to take steps to reinstate engagement through explicit efforts. Perhaps the most systematic effort to rethink the nature of human being in terms of engagement in the world was Heidegger’s (1927/1996). He argued that human existence takes place through our concern with other people and things that are meaningful to us.

Computational Methods in Science and Technology

Computational Methods in Science and Technology
Author: Sukhpreet Kaur
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2024-10-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1040260578

This book contains the proceedings of the 4TH International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Technology (ICCMST 2024). The proceedings explores research and innovation in the field of Internet of things, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Networks, System Design and Methodologies, Big Data Analytics and Applications, ICT for Sustainable Environment, Artificial Intelligence and it provides real time assistance and security for advanced stage learners, researchers and academicians has been presented. This will be a valuable read to researchers, academicians, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and professionals within the fields of Computer Science, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence.

Knowledge Management in Organisations

Knowledge Management in Organisations
Author: Lorna Uden
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031079205

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations, KMO 2022, held in Hagen, Germany, in July 2022. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers accepted for KMO 2022 were selected from 61 submissions and are organized in topical sections on: ​knowledge transfer and sharing; knowledge and organization; knowledge and service innovation; industry 4.0; information and knowledge systems; intelligent science; AI and new trends in KM.

Complete Training Evaluation

Complete Training Evaluation
Author: Richard Griffin
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-08-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749471018

While substantial advances have been made in the L&D profession over the last decade, evaluation remains by far the weakest part of the L&D cycle. Most organisations wish to evaluate the impact of their investment in training but few do it well, and the lack of effective methods is one of the key barriers. Complete Training Evaluation addresses these issues by providing practitioner friendly but academically robust information and guidance on how to evaluate all forms of learning and development. It draws on the author's own multidisciplinary research along with his practical experience of working with private and public sector organisations carrying out evaluation. The book provides practitioners with accessible 'how-to' knowledge and tools to undertake evaluations of both formal and informal learning. Full of case studies and practical examples of application of methods and insights, Complete Training Evaluation equips practitioners with a range of approaches that can be used depending on the training programme, capacity and capability. An online supporting resource includes a bank of evaluation questions grouped around particular aspects of training.

ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications

ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications
Author: Vadim Ermolayev
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642357377

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, held in Kherson, Ukraine, in June 2012. The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. This book begins with an invited contribution presenting the substance of one of ICTERI 2012 invited talks. The chapter deals with the issues of abstraction and verification of properties in real-time Java programs. The rest of the volume is structured in four topical parts: ICT Frameworks, Infrastructures, Integration, and Deployment; Formal Logic and Knowledge-Based Frameworks; ICT-Based Systems Modeling, Specification, and Verification: ICT in Teaching and Learning.