This article aimed to investigates children’s engagement with information and communication technologies (ICTs) inside and outside the school context based on the Quantitative Research from 612 pupils in five English primary schools.
The status quo:
1.Students engages in more expensive digital media outside of the classroom led to gap between schools and teachers.
2.The use of ICT in primary schools continues to be inconsistent despite the increased funding and improved resourcing.
Identify the research problems:
• What is the background of primary pupils in terms of ICT access?
• How do primary pupils use computers and the Internet in school and out-of-school
settings?
• What ICT applications do primary pupils favour in schools and at home?
• How do primary pupils think ICTs influence the way they learn?
• What changes do primary pupils want made to school ICT provision?
Methods:
Survey design was adopted by a four-page questionnaire was developed
to investigate primary pupils’engagement with ICT inside and outside of the school setting.Adopted Probability Sampling as Stratified Sampling to select samples including two inner city schools and two suburban schools in London and one school in a medium/small town located in the West Midlands.
Descriptive Statistics were collected and shown by both tables and figures to reflect the central tendency towards the below aspects:
1.Pupils’ access to ICTs inside and outside the school
2.Pupils’ Internet use
3.Pupils’ computer use
4.Pupils’ favoured and least favoured ICT applications
5.Perceived influence of ICTs on learning
6.Pupils’ views of desirable changes to school ICT provision
Discussion:
The results show that primary school pupils' engagement with ICT are dominated by learning-related activities and picture retrieval at school while are dominated by online games at home.And then exert the implications by the research into practical use.
I think this article provided a good foundation to align ICTs in school with students' own favour in ICTS in education.However my research topic as "How to align ICTs in school with students' own favour in ICTS in education" may replicate this article with different participants and different research sites.I have initially decided to focus my topic towards a specific ICT or a specific environment in school.
By Cheng Miaoting,Cat
The status quo:
1.Students engages in more expensive digital media outside of the classroom led to gap between schools and teachers.
2.The use of ICT in primary schools continues to be inconsistent despite the increased funding and improved resourcing.
Identify the research problems:
• What is the background of primary pupils in terms of ICT access?
• How do primary pupils use computers and the Internet in school and out-of-school
settings?
• What ICT applications do primary pupils favour in schools and at home?
• How do primary pupils think ICTs influence the way they learn?
• What changes do primary pupils want made to school ICT provision?
Methods:
Survey design was adopted by a four-page questionnaire was developed
to investigate primary pupils’engagement with ICT inside and outside of the school setting.Adopted Probability Sampling as Stratified Sampling to select samples including two inner city schools and two suburban schools in London and one school in a medium/small town located in the West Midlands.
Descriptive Statistics were collected and shown by both tables and figures to reflect the central tendency towards the below aspects:
1.Pupils’ access to ICTs inside and outside the school
2.Pupils’ Internet use
3.Pupils’ computer use
4.Pupils’ favoured and least favoured ICT applications
5.Perceived influence of ICTs on learning
6.Pupils’ views of desirable changes to school ICT provision
Discussion:
The results show that primary school pupils' engagement with ICT are dominated by learning-related activities and picture retrieval at school while are dominated by online games at home.And then exert the implications by the research into practical use.
I think this article provided a good foundation to align ICTs in school with students' own favour in ICTS in education.However my research topic as "How to align ICTs in school with students' own favour in ICTS in education" may replicate this article with different participants and different research sites.I have initially decided to focus my topic towards a specific ICT or a specific environment in school.
By Cheng Miaoting,Cat
Could you elaborate your questions a bit more? I don't understand quite well what you mean.
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