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Despite the promising perspective of the usage of ICT in education, contrasting opinions state that education has been barely influenced. In this paper we present a critical confrontation of aspects relevant to the usage of ICT in the classroom and categorize main difficulties that arise when ICT is applied in education.
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Papadopoulos, I., Dagdilelis, V. (2009). ICT in the Classroom Microworld - Some Reservations. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E., Avison, D., Naeve, A., Horner, D.G. (eds) Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All. WSKS 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04757-2_15
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