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Slepkov, Howard – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Increments in educational budgets have been devoted to professional development for teachers to help them accommodate their practices to the realities of their classrooms. Previous research has suggested that despite this significant investment, there has been little, if any, positive change. This begs the question of what else might be done to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement, Web Sites
Overbaugh, Richard; Lu, Ruiling – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
In response to the need to train teachers to effectively integrate technology into elementary and secondary education, a teacher professional development program funded by a federal grant provided a selection of instructional technology integration courses to K-12 teachers. This study investigated the impact of these courses on the course…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Technology Integration
Ligorio, M. Beatrice; Cesareni, Donatella; Schwartz, Neil – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Virtual environments are able to extend the space of interaction beyond the classroom. In order to analyze how distributed cognition functions in such an extended space, we suggest focusing on the architecture of intersubjectivity. The Euroland project--a virtual land created and populated by seven classrooms supported by a team of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Social Influences, Computer Uses in Education
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Garthwait, Abigail; Weller, Herman G. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
Maine was the first state to put laptops in the hands of an entire grade of students. This interpretive case study of two middle school science-math teachers was driven by the general question: Given ubiquitous computing, how do teachers use computers in constructing curriculum and delivering instruction? Specifically, the researchers sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers, Middle School Teachers
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Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2004
Forty-one primary student teachers were divided into two groups and were instructed how to integrate certain Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in learning activities. Only one group was guided to use Filamentality, a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site, and to organize Internet information in a Hotlist and a Scrapbook.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Student Teacher Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education