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Title:
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USING THE WWW FOR LEARNING: THE POSSIBILITIES OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL |
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Author(s):
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Maria Inez Salgado De Souza , Niura Martins De Almeida |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-58-4 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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school learning; virtual communities; young people and Internet |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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175 |
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Last Page:
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179 |
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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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The aim of this paper is to verify the possibilities that are open to school learning by transforming the www in a tool to
meet the needs of schools today. The rationale we are going to follow here is that once the youngsters are greatly familiar
with this technology in a day to day basis, the school must to accelerate into pursuing the benefits of the web to meet their
goals.
The environment where we live today is impregnated by the wired technology and most: there are a special culture
development we use to call the cyberculture which is undoubtedly the bypass to the world community and learning
impressive way for each individual that is connected.
The paper proposal is to discuss how could the technology that are worldly disseminated to increase a new form of to
put teachers and students together beyond the classroom. The departure point here was a research work that has found
the potential of www communities and other uses of Internet to gather together the teenagers when out of school.
However, while the youngsters are connected and even know how to manipulate the technology in their favor, the
teachers are rarely using that tool in their classes or to develop the curriculum. |
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