Session Information
16 SES 11A, Implementation of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education: Emerging Issues (Part 2)
Symposium, continued from 16 SES 10A
Time:
2008-09-12
16:45-18:15
Room:
B4 415
Chair:
Tjeerd Plomp
Discussant:
Betty Collis
Contribution
In the 1960s and 70s the uses of new technologies (IT) in education were either adopted by a few teachers as an optional activity for individual learners to enhance their understanding or as a resource for learners following courses in computer science. Educational research then focussed on what impact IT might have on learners’ understanding. However, as IT in education has diversified and expanded the balance between teachers’ and learners’ roles has changed and as a consequence so have the educational research priorities and focii. Research methods have expanded to include measuring the organisation of the school, teachers’ beliefs, uptake and uses of IT, the motivation of the teachers and pupils, immersion in the technology and the differences between different nation’s uses of IT. This paper will review and synthesize the evidence to date of what makes effective research into IT in education taking account of these diverse resources and settings, new forms of knowledge representations, more sophisticated human-computer interactions to determine what implications this evidence has for measuring the shift in balance between teaching and learning.
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