ICT tools in environmental education: reviewing two newcomers to schools

United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO’s) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally, according to UNESCO, EE requires various forms of integrated and project-based teaching and learning approaches. These can involve hands-on experimentation alongside the retrieval and critical analysis of information from diverse sources and perspectives, and with different qualities and statuses. Multidisciplinary and knowledge engagement challenges are key considerations for an EE curriculum designed to harness information and communication technologies (ICT) to support and enhance student learning, which also challenge traditional instructional priorities that for example are largely based on textbooks. This review summarises research that has sought to integrate ICT and digital tools in EE. A key finding is that while there is a rich variety of such tools and applications available, there is far less research on their fit with and implications for student learning. The review calls for further studies that will provide models of productive forms of teaching and learning that harness ICT resources, particularly in developing the goals and methodologies of EE in the twenty-first century.     

Neoliberalism,education and the integration of ICT in schools. A critical reading

This article explores a contemporary perspective of education that aims to radically re-construct schools through the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT). Through the analysis of key texts produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, leading ICT industries, and international educational researchers, the article looks at the apparently neutral and desirable regime of truth surrounding education, where concrete problems are created and certain solutions provided. The findings discuss how the integration of ICT in schools is embedded in a perspective of education based on: new modalities of soft government, the centrality of a self-regulated and entrepreneur learner, and the representation of schools as flexible, autonomous and non-hierarchical environments organised around non-standardised modalities of public ‘accountability’.     

浅析普通高校现代化教学中学生信息素养的培养简

当前世界正在经历一场革命性的变化。正在全球展开的信息和信息技术革命,以前所未有的方式对社会变革的方向起着决定作用,其结果导致信息社会在全球的实现。面对信息化社会的需求,信息素养更是高校学生“学会学习”及“终身学习”的必备素质。     

网络课程类别分析——基于互联网教育传播模型的分析视角

美国传播学者尼尔·伯兹曼认为,课程就是一个信息传播系统,因此,可以从教育传播模型的视角分析不同网络课程之间的差异。然而,传统的教育传播四要素模型在解释网络教育时存在很多缺陷。将德国学者托马斯·赫尔斯曼提出的ICT框架和教育传播四要素模型相结合。构建出一个包含五个要素的互联网教育传播模型。利用互联网教育传播模型分析当下几种主要的网络课程。常见的网络课程可以分为I类、C类、I＋C等三种主要类型;教学活动是影响学习者参与、影响网络教学质量的核心要素;由于班额和教师投入的差异．C类和I＋C类网络课程还可以进一步细分为一系列亚类,教学质量也有很大的差异。     

信息时代大学生信息素养教育及其对策探究

信息素养教育是推进素质教育的重要途径,也是促进终生学习和构建学习化社会的重要手段。在概述信息素养与信息素养教育内涵演变的基础上,分析了当代大学生信息素养教育的现实需要,结合信息时代和社会发展背景,阐释了大学生信息素养教育的必要性和紧迫性,提出基于高等院校的大学生信息素养教育的对策和途径。     

An Experimental Test of Medical Disclosure and Consent Documentation: Assessing Patient Comprehension,Self-Efficacy,and Uncertainty

Effectively conveying risks and hazards in medical disclosure and informed consent documentation is a crucial type of communication. However, existing protocols typically do not meet the needs of patients or practitioners. In the present study, we advance a reconceptualization of obtaining written informed consent by analyzing it as a process of uncertainty management rather than a matter of document readability and recall. Results of this randomized trial indicated that patients who reviewed a simplified consent document reported greater comprehension of medico-legal terminology and lower uncertainty about the document, although they did not evince greater self-efficacy. Health literacy was a significant moderator of the relationship between consent form version and comprehension.     

中外信息素质教育比较研究

对中外信息素质教育的现状与对策进行了客观的比较与理性的思考,并提出了在我国开展信息素质教育的对策与措施。     

浅议“信息素养”培养目标

本文论述了信息素质作为信息时代和知识经济形态下人力资源新指标的重要性、信息素质的定义和划分以及重点培训领域。     

E-government and citizen's engagement with local affairs through e-websites: The case of Spanish municipalities

As a mixture of new technologies, processes and services oriented to the citizen, e-government has become one of the most important keywords for the public sector reform with proponents claiming that it guarantees transparency, accountability and better communication between local and national administrations and their public. Few if any studies have investigated the factors that might contribute to the establishment of trusting relationship between city councils and citizens. This paper examines the relative importance and significance of three types of information communication technologies (ICTs) towards the use of e-government and the development of civic engagement. We conduct an empirical investigation of 179 Spanish official town websites (web sites in the municipalities). The research findings suggest that implementing ICT not only involves a step towards an increase in the use of e-government services by people, but also provides numerous opportunities for their civic engagement. The main conclusion of this study is that although ICT can leverage the adoption of e-government, it cannot create alone engagement with traditional activities of the local government. What is missing from this relationship is a mediating variable (adoption of e-government by government officers), which in turn can greatly help to better understand how ICT impacts relationships between governments and their citizens.     

IGCSE中ICT评价方式对我国信息技术会考改革的启示

我国的高中毕业生会考制度在人们心目中的地位日趋下降,改革之声此起彼伏,废除之声也偶有耳闻。而信息技术会考在目前的会考环境中则更加岌岌可危。反思与批判我国目前信息技术会考制度的弊端,大胆吸收和借鉴IGCSE中ICT考试制度的成功经验与独具特色的考核制度,以改进和完善我国的信息技术会考制度,是我们亟待解决的一个问题。