Implementing Information Technology in Learning Processes - Prokopiadou, Georgia

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Résumé :
This book addresses issues related to implementing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for upgrading the educational framework. It pays special attention to the utilization of technological tools and means in the formation of a qualitatively upgraded teaching and learning environment, as well as in dealing with crisis phenomena, as faced by school units in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, it celebrates the role of school administration, locating its role in the provision of high standard services for the execution of administrative school procedures and for communication between members of the school community. The book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks and identifies the critical parameters affecting the integration of ICT in all aspects of schooling, and provides multiple perspectives of proper use of information technology in an educational system. It offers a broad overview of issues of technological nature that refer to the activities and purposes of a school unit, highlighting specifically how the COVID-19 pandemic cultivated the organizational culture of instant integration of ICT in primary and secondary education within a short period of time. ...

Biographie:
Dr Georgia Prokopiadou holds a PhD in the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on school units, from the University of Athens, Greece. She currently holds the position of General Director of Primary and Secondary Educational Personnel in the Greek Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports. She has published several articles in Greek and foreign journals, and she has also participated in several international conferences. Her research interests focus on e-government and ICTs in schools. She has taught the subjects of e-government, ICTs in education, the organization & administration of school libraries, the management of archival documents in higher educational institutions at undergraduate and postgraduate level....

Sommaire:
This book addresses issues related to implementing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for upgrading the educational framework. It pays special attention to the utilization of technological tools and means in the formation of a qualitatively upgraded teaching and learning environment, as well as in dealing with crisis phenomena, as faced by school units in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, it celebrates the role of school administration, locating its role in the provision of high standard services for the execution of administrative school procedures and for communication between members of the school community. The book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks and identifies the critical parameters affecting the integration of ICT in all aspects of schooling, and provides multiple perspectives of proper use of information technology in an educational system. It offers a broad overview of issues of technological nature that refer to the activities and purposes of a school unit, highlighting specifically how the COVID-19 pandemic cultivated the organizational culture of instant integration of ICT in primary and secondary education within a short period of time. ...