Education in the new era: On the scale of information technology (IT) and human touch (HT)

Sin Yee Angelina LAW, Mei Lin CHENG

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Abstract

Situated at the turn of the century, which signifies the upcoming of the information age, it is envisaged that drastic change in education is going to take place, as a result of the introduction of information technology to schools in Hong Kong. Reforms in education will penetrate all areas, including school management, curriculum planning, classroom practices, teachers' professional development and school-community collaboration. The new technology will not only change the teaching and learning patterns in the classroom, it is going to make a fundamental difference to children's school life and produce a new kind of people. While information technology opens up new possibilities for children's learning, does it guarantee success for every child? How about developing other valuable human qualities? This paper argues for the need of human touch (HT) in children's school education in the information technology (IT) era for achieving desirable aims of education.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2000
EventEuropean Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2000 - University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Duration: 20 Sept 200023 Sept 2000
https://eera-ecer.de/previous-ecers/ecer-2000-edinburgh/

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2000
Abbreviated titleECER 2000
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityScotland
Period20/09/0023/09/00
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Citation

Law, A., & Cheng, M. L. (2000, September). Education in the new era: On the scale of information technology (IT) and human touch (HT). Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2000, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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