1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463046803321

Autore

Austin Roger, Dr.

Titolo

Online learning and community cohesion : linking schools / / Roger Austin and William Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07438-6

1-135-10775-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in education ; ; 98

Altri autori (Persone)

HunterWilliam

Disciplina

371.33/4

Soggetti

Computer-assisted instruction

Internet in education

Community education

Educational technology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Online Learning andCommunity Cohesion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Communications Technologies and Positive Social Change; 2 Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and England: Conflict and History; 3 Israel: Connecting Cultures in Conflict; 4 England: Ethnic Diversity and Parallel Lives; 5 Europe: ICT, Union, Identity, and Diversity; 6 Canada: A Nation Built on Diversity; 7 The United States: Linking the Huddled Masses; 8 The Promise of Online Contact; Notes; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

National governments and multi-national institutions are spending unprecedented amounts of money on ICT on improving the overall quality of school learning, and schools are increasingly expected to prepare young people for a global economy in which inter-cultural understanding will be a priority. This book explores and analyzes the ways ICT has been used to promote citizenship and community cohesion in projects that link together schools in different parts of the world. It examines the theoretical framework behind such work and shows the impact of initiatives in the Middle East, Canada, the



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795925403321

Autore

Veszelszki Ágnes

Titolo

Digilect : the impact of infocommunication technology on language / / Ágnes Veszelszki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Saur, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-049713-1

3-11-049911-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages)

Collana

Knowledge & Information. Studies in Information Science

Disciplina

428.00785

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Computer-assisted instruction

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Infocommunications and Digilect -- 2. Digilect as Language Variety -- 3. Characteristic Features of Digilect -- 4. Digilect (and its Effects) based on the Findings of Two Questionnaire Surveys -- 5. The Impact of Digilect on non-digital Media According to Corpus Analysis Findings -- 6. Summary and conclusions. Directions for further research -- Annex 1 -- Annex 2 -- Annex 3 -- Annex 4 -- Annex 5 -- Annex 6 -- Annex 7 -- Annex 8 -- Annex 9 -- Annex 10 -- Annex 11 -- Annex 12 -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The high degree of internet penetration and its social (and linguistic) effects evidently influence how people, and especially the highly susceptible younger generations, use language. The primary aim of the book is not only to identify the characteristic features of the digital language variety (this has already been done by several works) but to examine how digital communication affects the language of other mediums of communication: orality, handwritten texts, digitally created but not digitally perceived, that is printed texts, including in particular advertisements (which quickly respond to linguistic change). Naturally, the book presents the characteristics of the digital language variety



(and coins the term digilect) but only to give a framework to the impact analysis. It is important to document changes in progress and thus direct attention to potential outcomes. The current linguistic change is different from previous ones primarily in its speed and form of spreading, and it not only brings innovative grammatical forms and writing/spelling solutions but may also have far-reaching cultural and educational consequences in the long run.