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Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
While much has been written about how to implement digital tools for learning and play in early childhood education and care, using a sociomaterial perspective this article seeks to explore what types of activities can be the outcome of appropriating different digital tools, and who or what defines these activities. Employing a sociomaterial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Handheld Devices
Thomas Anthony Weeks – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Technology in the classroom is seen as being impactful on student performance. Purchasing and maintaining classroom technology often represents a challenge for districts facing budgetary shortcomings. Selecting and implementing appropriate technology is important to a district both in terms of its impact on students and the district's bottom line.…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, School Funds, Budgeting
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Bryans-Bongey, Sarah E. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
This paper explores teaching and learning applications at the intersection between Universal Design for Learning, Assistive Technology, and mainstream educational technology. Informed by the SETT framework in which the technology choice is informed by student, environment, and task (Dell, Newton, & Petroff, 2017; Zabala, 2005), this paper is…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Educational Strategies, Assistive Technology, Mainstreaming
Noll, Brandi – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
On the basis of her experience with buying new curricular materials--specifically, for reading instruction and intervention--the author shares valuable lessons about how to make the most of such purchases. A program can be beneficial for some students but detrimental for others; programs should be presented to employees as tools to critique and…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Media Selection, Vendors, Appropriate Technology
Gropper, George L. – Educational Technology, 2017
What would it take for instructional design to qualify as a bona fide applied discipline? First and foremost, a fundamental requirement is a testable and tested theoretical base. Untested rationales until verified remain in limbo. Secondly, the discipline's applied prescriptions must be demonstrably traceable to the theoretical base once it is…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Flavin, Michael – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper examines the usage of institutional and non-institutional technologies to support learning and teaching in UK higher education. Previous work on disruptive technology and disruptive innovation has argued that users prefer simple and convenient technologies, and often repurpose technologies from designers' intentions; this paper…
Descriptors: School Support, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Jones, Benjamin F. – Hamilton Project, 2016
Despite much fanfare, new technologies have yet to fundamentally advance student outcomes in K-12 schools or other educational settings. We believe that the system that supports the development and dissemination of educational technology tools is falling short. The key missing ingredient is rigorous evaluation. No one knows what works and for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Best Practices, Case Studies, Educational Principles
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McLeod, Scott; Richardson, Jayson W. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2017
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) was founded more than six decades ago to build a knowledge base of research and effective practice for the field of educational leadership. UCEA is a collective of approximately 100 top research institutions with programs in educational leadership and policy and is the leading…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Technology, Principals, Superintendents
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Matuk, Camillia; Gerard, Libby; Lim-Breitbart, Jonathan; Linn, Marcia – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2016
Technology can enhance teachers' practice in multiple ways. It can help them better understand patterns in their students' thinking, manage class progress at individual and group levels, and obtain evidence to inform modifications to curriculum and instruction. Such technology is most effective when it is aligned with teachers' goals and…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Improvement, Educational Strategies, Partnerships in Education
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Bull, Glen; Spector, J. Michael; Persichitte, Kay; Meiers, Ellen – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2017
Joseph South, an educational researcher, technology consultant, and former director of the U.S. Office of Educational Technology participated in a research initiative on Educational Technology Efficacy Research organized by the Jefferson Education Accelerator, Digital Promise, and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Usability, Interviews, Educational Research
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Chromey, Kelli J.; Duchsherer, Amy; Pruett, Jennifer; Vareberg, Kyle – Educational Media International, 2016
The purpose of this research is to identify the students' perceptions of social media use in a classroom setting. Knowing students' perceptions of social media can help the instructor build a course that both student and teacher can find effective. Using focus groups this study found a model to determine if social media is an appropriate or…
Descriptors: Social Media, Classroom Techniques, Mass Media Use, Student Attitudes
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Teo, Timothy; Huang, Fang; Hoi, Cathy Ka Weng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Given the paradox between pervasive promotion of technology use in English teaching and lack of studies about teachers' technology acceptance in China, this study aims to examine intentions of English teachers in China to use technology in their classroom teaching. Based on the technology acceptance model, eight variables including perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Intention, English (Second Language)