How Technology Supports Learning and Teaching

1. How Technology Supports Learning and Teaching Andrea Vasilopoulos

2. The Issues… • Different goals, same result • Technology and authentic learning experiences • Wenglinsky: “Does using technology in schools raise student achievement?” • Implementation plans • Sutherland: “How can teachers integrate ICT tools into their everyday teaching to transform learning?” • Teacher PD

3. Barriers and Supports • Resources, funding, access • Plante and Beatty • E.g. Video Conferencing (7% of schools have this) • Barrier of teacher knowledge and professional development • Student response to increased use of ICT • Passeyet al., Motivation and ICT • Subject-specific ICT use • Cradler & McNabb Making standards and learning objectives explicit to students

4. Leadership • Teachers as the focus of leadership • Hughes Inorder for teachers to become technological leaders in the classroom, they first need to build up their skill set on ICT • Importance of understanding the process of gaining knowledge on ICT: One could “expect that teachers who learn about technology from a content perspective may be more likely to use it to support content learning, whereas teachers who learn it as a skill may have greater difficulty using the technology for educative purposes”

5. References • Cradler, J, McNabb, M, Freeman, M, & Burchett, R. (2002). How Does Technology Influence Student Learning? In Learning and Leading with Technology. 29(8). • Hughes, Joan. (2005). The Role of Teacher Knowledge and Learning Experiences in Forming Technology-Integrated Pedagogy. In Technology and Teacher Education. 13(2). • Passey, Rogers, Machel, McHughe & Allaway (2003) The motivational effect of ICT on pupils. (2003). Department of Educational Research Lancaster University. • Plante, Johanne, & Beattie, David. (2004). Connectivity and ICT integration in Canadian elementary and secondary schools: First results from the Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey, 2003-2004. • R. Sutherland, V. Armstrong, S. Barnes, R. Brawn, N. Breeze, M. Gall, S. Matthewman, F. Olivero, A. Taylor, P. Triggs, J. Wishart & P. John. (2004). Transforming Teaching and Learning: Embedding ICT into Everyday Classroom Practices. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. • Wenglinsky, Harold. (2006). Technology and Achievement: The Bottom Line. In Educational Leadership. 63(4).