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Title:
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INTERNET SEEKING BY AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN: TEACHERS PERSPECTIVES |
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Author(s):
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Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan, Peter Macauley, Sue Reynolds |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-55-7 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Ji-ping Zhang, Tomayess Issa and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information Seeking Processes; Teacher-Student Interaction; Internet Use. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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159 |
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Last Page:
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165 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper presents findings from a study of how primary school children use the Internet to seek information for academic purposes from teachers perspectives. Ten teachers from two schools in Victoria, Australia were involved in this study. The teachers were interviewed individually in order to understand in detail how their students seek information from the Internet after they have been given an assignment or project. The interview questions were developed based on Kuhlthaus model of Information Seeking Processes (ISP) to determine how teachers understood the way primary school students used the Internet for academic purposes. In this research the researchers adapted Kuhlthaus model for the web environment in order to identify the information seeking processes undertaken by primary school children, and the challenges teachers have to deal with, in order to guide students in seeking information from the Internet. |
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