This ILET Reading group begins October 1, 2004. Dr. Niki Davis will lead the Reading Group of this year.

(Click here for the Calendar with access to readings and discussion activities on the web).

Articles with [Acrobat] link beside them are in pdf format and require Adobe Acobat Reader software to view them. Please click it to download the software if you do not have it.

This is one mandatory reading:

Davis N.E. & Carlsen R. (2004) A comprehensive synthesis on research into information technology in education. Presentation and chapter in Tom van Weert (ed) World Summit on the Information Society forum Engineering and the Knowledge Society: Information technology supporting human development. IFIP and WFEO, Geneva, December 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.

Students will be providing additional well-balanced literature reviews as input. Exemplar Literature Reviews include:

BECTa (2003a) ImpaCT2 Learning at home and school: Case studies. ICT in schools research and evaluation series, No. 8. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency: Coventry, United Kingdom.
[http://www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=563]

Torgerson C., & Zhu D. (November, 2003) A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of ICT on literacy learning in English, EPPI Review, 5-16.
[http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/review_groups/english/review_two.htm]

Dillion P. (1998). Teaching and learning with Telematics: An overview of the literature. Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education. 7(1), 33-50. [http://www.triangle.co.uk/jit/]

EPPI (2003) A systematic review of the impact on students and teachers of the use of ICT for assessment of creative and critical thinking skills. Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordination Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom. [http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/review_groups/assessment/review_two.htm]

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Updated October 4, 2002