Children and Computers in School

Betty A. Collis, Gerald A. Knezek, Kwok-Wing Lai, Keiko T. Miyashita, Willem J. Pelgrum, Tjeerd Plomp, Takashi Sakamoto

• Contents: Preface. B.A. Collis, T. Sakamoto, Children in the Information Age. B.A. Collis, G.A. Knezek, K-W. Lai, K.T. Miyashita, W.J. Pelgrum, T. Plomp, T. Sakamoto, Three Multinational Studies. W.J. Pelgrum, T. Plomp, Information Technology and Children from a Global Perspective. B.A. Collis, K-W. Lai, Information Technology and Children from a Classroom Perspective. G.A. Knezek, K.T. Miyashita, T. Sakamoto, Information Technology from the Child's Perspective. Reflections. G.A. Knezek, K.T. Miyashita, Reflections on Selected Research Topics. B.A. Collis, Measuring the Effects of Computers in Education: Methods and Research. W.J. Pelgrum, The Educational Potential of New Information Technologies: Where are We Now? T. Sakamoto, Future Research Needs and Opportunities. K-W. Lai, Living in the Information Age. T. Plomp, Future Directions for IT in Education. M.A. Murray-Lasso, Appendix: Culture as a Context and Determinant of Educational Uses of Information Technology.

"...provides a useful collection of three diverse, large-scale, multinational investigations....an important benchmark of how computers are being used and integrated into classrooms worldwide....a great service to graduate students, researchers, designers, teachers, and policy makers interested in instructional technology."—Journal of Educational Computing Research"A world-wide tour-de-force describing research from a global perspective, a classroom perspective, and a child's perspective..."—G. Ernest AndersonUniversity of Massachusetts