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Introducing educational computer programmes through evaluation: A case in South African disadvantaged schools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational computer programs (ECPs) in disadvantaged schools in South Africa, where 26 teachers from 23 schools participated in evaluating a biology computer game designed to motivate and ease conceptual understanding.
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Abstract: I report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational computer programmes (ECPs) in disadvantaged schools in South Africa. 26 teachers from 23 schools participated in evaluating a biology computer game designed to motivate and ease conceptual understanding. The evaluation comprised teachers training, which simultaneously provided a platform for introducing the ECP into the schools. The paper recommends that an evaluation of ECPs that includes the value system of end-users (through social dialogue); curriculum issues (learning theories in the ECP and those the education authorities recommend, as well as ECP-curriculum integration); the concepts which the ECP presents; and the compatibility of the ECP with school computers, can provide useful methods of introducing ECPs into curricula of disadvantaged schools.
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