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Although the use of ICT in education has been strongly advocated with a vision of bringing a paradigm shift to education, observational studies and surveys in general indicate that the actual impact of ICT on classroom teaching and learning has been limited. This paper attempts to provide a discussion of the underlying problems, and reports an experience which seems to indicate how the situation may differ if teacher empowerment is taken as a primary concern in the development of ICT in education.
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Ki, WW., Chung, A.LS., Lam, HC. (2003). Teacher Empowerment and Minimalist Design. In: Dowling, C., Lai, KW. (eds) Information and Communication Technology and the Teacher of the Future. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 132. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35701-0_18
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