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Sociotechnical Narratives in Rural, High-Poverty Elementary Schools: Comparative Findings from East Texas and South India
Erik Byker
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jun 14, 2014) pp. 29–40
The article’s purpose is to compare case studies of computer technology use at two rural elementary schools across two international settings. This study uses the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory to guide this comparative...
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ICT Oriented Toward Nyaya: Community Computing in India’s Slums
Erik Byker
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jun 14, 2014) pp. 19–28
In many schools across India, access to information and communication technology (ICT) is still a rare privilege. While the Annual Status of Education Report in India (2013) showed a marginal uptick in the amount of computers, the opportunities for...
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ICT in India's Elementary Schools: The Vision and Realities
Erik Byker
International Education Journal Vol. 13, No. 2 (2014) pp. 27–40
As India aspires to emerge as the information and communication technology (ICT) leader among the knowledge-based societies, it does so with the education of children as a primary concern. With the passage and enforcement of the "2009 Right of...
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The Bangalore Challenge: Case studies of the social construction of technology in elementary schools
Erik Jon Byker
(2012) pp. 1–253
As India aspires to become the information and communication technology (ICT) leader in the world, the education of its children is a primary concern. While India's policymakers expect ICT to usher in promising education changes, there is a limited ...
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Teaching for "Global Telephony": A Case Study of a Community School for India's 21st Century
Erik Jon Byker
Policy Futures in Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (February 2015) pp. 234–246
Although controversial, perhaps no piece of legislation has the potential to transform India's future more than the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE). Upon the passage and enforcement of RTE in 2009, the Indian government...
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Educational Technology and Student Voice: Examining Teacher Candidates' Perceptions
Erik Jon Byker; S. Michael Putman; Laura Handler; Drew Polly
World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues Vol. 9, No. 3 (2017) pp. 119–129
Student Voice is a term that honors the participatory roles that students have when they enter learning spaces like classrooms. Student Voice is the recognition of students' choice, creativity, and freedom. Seminal educationists--like Dewey and...
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Multicultural Media Authorship: Using Technology to Create Children's Literature Texts
Erik Jon Byker; Amy J. Good; Erin Miller; Brian Kissel
Multicultural Education Vol. 25, No. 2 (2018) pp. 22–25
The purpose of this article is to describe and report on how a group of teacher candidates used technology to create multicultural texts which integrated literacy and social studies. To meet this purpose, the authors briefly describe the objectives...