samedi 1er avril 2017 par Robin Holding Kay, Loralea Carruthers
In the past five years, there has been considerable interest in the decision-making process of school board officials in the field of education. However, a paucity of research exists on how these leaders use online resources to make decisions. Through an online survey and face to face (...)
samedi 1er avril 2017 par Marie-Hélène Poulin, Camille Lefebvre
Selon Wisniewski, Rossom, Jia, Xu et Carroll (2015), 95% des adolescents utilisent un ou plusieurs outils technologiques pour de multiples usages. Des données ont été obtenues auprès de 245 adolescents âgés de 14 à 18 ans sur leur utilisation des technologies, le contexte et les impacts. Ces (…)
samedi 1er avril 2017 par Karen Goodnough, Elizabeth Murphy
The purpose of this paper is to make sense of the professional learning of four teachers implementing a flipped classroom approach in their grade six mathematics class. The professional learning took place within a two-year Action Research (AR) project that engaged teachers in collaborative and (…)
samedi 1er avril 2017 par Daniel Robinson, Lynn Randall
This article highlights results from a recent study that investigated Atlantic Canadian physical educators’ adoption and implementation of various digital technologies. Employing a mixed-methods research design (survey participants, n = 206; focus group participants, n = 12), the research (...)
Over the past five years, the interactive whiteboard (IWB) has been massively introduced into schools across the province of Quebec, Canada. This study explores how the IWB is being used, and the associated benefits and challenges. Data on 11,683 students (from 4th year elementary to grade 12) (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Glorya Pellerin, Gisèle Maheux, Yvonne da Silveira, Stéphane Allaire, Véronique Paul
The research presented in this article proposes new training formulas for Inuit teachers from Puvirnituq and Ivujivik in Nunavik through the experiences of videoconferencing. It is based on a hybrid of face-to-face and distance training, where collaborative work is a priority. Optimal (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Simon Collin, Thierry Karsenti, Alexis Ndimubandi, Hamid Saffari
The objective of this article was to better understand the relationship between students’ age and socioeconomic level, and its influence on students’ digital uses. We conducted a quantitative study of 401 elementary and high school students in Quebec. Four independent variables were initially (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Patrick Giroux, Diane Gauthier, Nadia Cody, Sandra Coulombe, Andréanne Gagné, Suzie Gaudreault
Both media and digital literacies are essential for the 21st century. Consequently, several governments have integrated technologies with school curriculums. Recently, ICT integration efforts, particularly with the digital tablet, have multiplied. Several academic uses of the tablet are (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Stéphanie Simard, Thierry Karsenti
This study aims to understand how preservice programs prepare future teachers to use ICT to develop students’ information literacy skills. A survey was conducted from January 2014 through May 2014 with 413 future teachers in four French Canadian universities. In the spring of 2015, qualitative (...)