Game-like three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds have become popular venues for youth to explore and interact with friends. To bring vital financial literacy education to them in places they frequent, a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, educators, and financial experts developed a youth-oriented financial literacy education game in the Second Life 3D online virtual world. This paper...

Background In the international report from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2013, the analyses showed a positive relationship between the use of computers and computer and information literacy (CIL) for some purposes of computer use and some countries, but not for all countries (Fraillon et al. 2014, p. 234ff.). In this paper we use Latent Class Analysis to loo...

This paper presents a pilot study. It was set to investigate a small sample of subjects in a junior high school on whether the increased use of computers, both in domestic and school environments, has affected the students’ development of literacy in reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. This stemmed from personal observation as a classroom teacher in the computer studies area. Progressi...

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ perceptions regarding technology use in mathematics teaching and their computer literacy levels as well as their mathematics teaching anxiety. The nonexperimental correlational research, which is included in the quantitative research approach, was used in the study. A total of 481 pre-service mathematics teache...

Most national and international development policies have now made ample room for the application of ICT and transition toward the information society. Within each country as well as among them, inequalities in access and use (usually referred to as “digital divide”) are seen as a major threat. In addition to securing “universal access," information literacy is a major component of these effort...