Search results for author:"Erik Byker"
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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...