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Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools

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Computer assisted learning; Higher secondary education and ICT; Informatics in secondary education; Integrating ICT in secondary education; Introduction of ICT in secondary education; Lower secondary education and ICT; Personalized learning; ICTs in secondary education; Transforming secondary education by ICT; Use of ICT in the classroom

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In this document we will address how secondary schools (with pupils in the age of 12–18) can implement ICT in their educational system. We will use three different models or frameworks to guide such implementation. At first we distinguish between two ways of looking at ICT in education. On the one hand, educators can use ICT to improve the quality of the educational setting and the learning outcome. On the other hand, ICT should be regarded as a subject in the curriculum: learning about informatics, computer science and information literacy, and developing ICT skills. Being aware of the differences between those two ways of looking at...

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Hogenbirk, P. (2019). Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_26-1

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