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Chinese Early Childhood Educators' Beliefs and Experiences around Using Touchscreens with Children under Three Years of Age
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Chuanmei Dong; Olga Fotakopoulou; Maria Hatzigianni – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Research shows that educators' technology beliefs and experiences strongly shape their technology adoption and utilization in educational practices. This mixed-method study investigated very young children's educators' touchscreen use and their beliefs and experiences in China. Rich quantitative findings (N = 1276) revealed the availability of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers
Design-Based Approach to Technology Innovation: Teacher Educators' Experiences with Tablets as Instructional Tools in South Africa
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Thuthukile Jita; Alice Dhliwayo – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
The role of higher education in improving educational practices and access through research in technology innovations across the wider spectrum of schooling has especially increased in the information driven 21st century lifestyle. Pre-service teacher training plays a significant role in this transformation. For South Africa, research in…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Teacher Educators, Technology Uses in Education, Tablet Computers
Perceptions of Veteran Middle and High School STEM Teachers on Integrating Tablets into the Classroom
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Rice, Joanie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the availability of technology for instruction, veteran science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers are still reluctant to incorporate recent technologies, such as tablets, into the classroom. This qualitative case study was conducted to explore the perceptions of eight middle and high school veteran STEM teachers…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
The Digital Transition from Textbooks to Tablets in Saudi Arabia
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Nehaya Alhamed; Matthew Ohlson – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2021
Technology has greatly impacted education around the world, including in Saudi Arabia. Educational technology supports teaching and learning processes, and its integration into schools supports successful initiatives to improve learning in the classroom. Introducing a new technology resource, such as computer tablets, into learning settings is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Textbooks
Factors Impacting Teachers' Continued It Adoption in Pre-College Education
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Aldekheel, Abrar Y.; Khalil, Omar; AlQenaei, Zainab M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2022
Aim/Purpose: This study was designed to examine the extent to which high school teachers intend to continue using the tablet PC in their teaching within the context of the Tablet Project initiative in Kuwait. It explores what drives their adoption intention. Background: Blended learning offers teachers the potential to adopt IT to augment their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Intention
The Digital Transition from Textbooks to Tablets in Saudi Arabia
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Nehaya Alhamed – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Technology has greatly impacted education around the world, including in Saudi Arabia. Educational technology supports teaching and learning processes, and its integration into schools supports successful initiatives to improve learning in the classroom. Introducing a new technology resource, such as computer tablets, into learning settings is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Textbooks
Substitution to Augmentation: Faculty Adoption of iPad Mobile Learning in Higher Education
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Cathy Cavanaugh; Jace Hargis; Tayeb Kamali; Melissa Soto – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2013
Purpose: This article aims to present an examination of the first six months of a national college-level iPad implementation project involving 14,000 new students based on faculty shift from substituting their teaching methods with mobile technology to augmentation of teaching methods with new affordances of mobile technology.…
Descriptors: Tablet Computers, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Teaching Methods