4. Factors affecting ICT Integration
It is acknowledge that the integration of ITC in a fragile area such as teaching and learning is a hard task, since there are numerous factors that impeded this process, and which are known as barriers. A barrier is defined as “any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective” (WordNet, 1997, as cited in Schoepp, 2005, p. 2). In the process of analyzing the factors of ICT, Scholars have first categorized the barriers into specific types. For instance BETCA (2004) has divided the factors to two groups; the first one is the teacher-level barriers which are related to teachers such as lack of confidence, lack of competence, and negative attitudes of teachers. The second category is the school-level barriers referring to the lack of pedagogical training, lack of access, and the lack of technical support. As the aim of the study is to analysis both teacher-level and school-level barriers in order to see how they hinder the integrating of ICT in the educational system, and prevent the technology from reaching the stage of normalization.
a. Lack of teachers’ confidence
Many scholars show that the lack of confidence prevents teachers from using ICT in their teaching. According to BECTA (2004) several research find that the lack of competence is a major factor since teacher fear from the situation of failure when they use ICT, Beggs (2006) asserted that limited knowledge of ICT by teachers makes them feel worry
The authors did research on 185 teachers in Australian, focusing on the kinds of technologies being used and reasons for using and not using these technologies. The author discusses the advantages for using technology in classrooms, which are creating learning-environment and easily build a relationship with parents. He also mentions the disadvantages of using technology are cost and lack of knowledge about using these tools with young children. Overall, I think this article gives evidence to support my research papers on both advantages and disadvantages of using technology. I like couple examples the author provide in the article, including use YouTube to teach songs to children.
If the students or teacher in a classroom are inexperienced with technology, the class will spend more time struggling with getting technology to work than actually learning. It is not uncommon for teachers to have a classroom filled with student with all different levels of technology skills. This can cause valuable time to be wasted trying to get everyone on the same page. As said in an article by Julia Klaus, “Technology should be used to supplement the classroom curriculum, but should not be used as the sole source of learning”
This case study will assist stakeholders with making informed decisions on utilizing technology based resource within their curriculum. The XYZ district is a very small school system. Only 20% of teachers are currently trained and instructing with various technology tools, which are problems created by mistrust of technology or hesitation born from frustration or lack of confidence and adequate training and funding (Ruggiero & Mong, 2015).This study is essential because it can supply an example of teaching and learning with one-to-one computing and establish a comprehensive understanding of ways to maximize diverse technology tools within the curriculum. Although teachers within this school district have access to the Internet and online subscriptions, many teachers are not utilizing the potential of educational benefits that technology resources offer (Blau & Peled, 2012).
i. The School and College Administration should be bound to Revise practices, policies, and regulations to ensure complete privacy and information protection while enabling a model of assessment that includes ongoing gathering and sharing of data for continuous improvement of learning and teaching. ii. The School and College Administration should design, develop, and implement learning dashboards, response systems, and communication pathways that give students, educators, families, and other stakeholders timely and actionable feedback about student learning to improve achievement and instructional practices. iii. The School and College Administration Should Create and validate an integrated system for designing and implementing valid, reliable, and cost-effective
In the article Making Technology Inclusive, Martin Horejsi gives different examples on how to include all students, specially the ones with disabilities, in activities guided by technology. In this sense, he believes that technology can assist children with different disabilities to perform tasks in the classroom helping them feel included socially, as well as giving these children the extra support they need to learn. Horejsi mentions that there are many great technologies out there, but many of them are out of reach for teachers because of their high prices. However, Horejsi comes up with cheaper and still successful ideas to use technology in the classroom to aid students with disabilities. He mentions that even simple steps such as changing
are also included in the TPB. We will now introduce the third construct. Perceived behavioral control is defined as, “The resources and opportunities available to a person must to some extent dictate the likelihood of behavioral achievement. Of greater psychological interest than actual control, however, is the perception of behavioral control and is impact on intentions and actions. Perceived behavioral control plays an important part in the theory of planned behavior.
Educational Technology Annotated Bibliography Kozma, R. (2003). Technology and classroom practices: an international study. Journal Of Research on Technology in Education (1539-1523), 36(1), 1. The author of this article, his name is Roboer B. Kozma, is now working for the Technology in Learning center, the name of the center is SRI International. In this article he explores all of the findings of research that was done by many researchers on how the technology is affecting our classrooms.
The objective of technology integration on the part of teachers is to apply the exercise of technology in an effortless fashion so that it empowers and further extends the curriculum objectives and employ students in purposeful learning. The espousal of change is a significant prerequisite for technology integration. Technology is continuously evolving and changing. It is an ongoing sequential process.
The promises of educational technology are phenomenal especially in the case of urban school districts. Technology is a versatile and valuable tool for teaching and learning and becoming a way of life. The most important thing is that teachers need to be prepared to use these technologies effectively. Schools can use technology effectively and for the welfare of students, teachers and society, it must be done.
( FINAL ESSAY JUST PARAPHRASE ) It goes without saying that technology will improve the learning path, makes education simpler and more enthusiastic. Using technology in education allows students to learn through internet, which makes it easier for them, also it has a positive influence on their academic performance. In today’s modern world, it is a successful investment to invest money in integrating technology in education.
When these technologies are applied in the field of education, it is termed as ICT in education. The term too can be used as the connotation to the term Educational technology because it also uses any hardware and software approaches that can enhance yield better learning outcomes. In the era of Computer technology the term ICT mainly focuses on the infrastructure, devices and sources of computer technology and thus it is imperative to discuss about the use of ICT in education by focusing mainly on Computer based technology. 19.4 CHARACTERISTICS OF ICT IN EDUCATION • Hardware and software approach: ICT in education is any hardware and software technology that contribute in the educational information processing. In the context of the present era, ICT mainly comprises of Computer technology with its hardware, like, Personal computer machine, infrastructure required for setting up Internet facility and also software like, CD ROM including various programme packages, E-learning strategies etc.
I also agree to the fact that the teachers and students must collaborate to achieve an effective outcome. A question was raised about how a classroom might change or adapt when a computer is integrated into the curriculum and there were five stages about technology adaption in the classroom. Which are the Familiarization, Utilization, Integration, Reorientation, and Evolution.
Understanding Digital Inclusion The society in which we live in today is advancing towards the era of modernization in a very rapid manner. Dominated by the ever-changing developments of technology, most of us are directly or indirectly affected by the transformation which comes along with digital revolution. Being a tool which have transformed and have the capability to transform how we live and connect to one another, new technology is often regarded as a double-edged sword which is associated with social stratifications as it can either alleviate or exacerbate existing divisions in the society (Warschauer & al., 2004).
Several potential causes have been proposed for the slow progress in educational technology, including lack of time for staff development, unsuitability of technologies, and cultural barriers within institutions (Laurillard, 2012). And with these error bought by new tools for learning, students and facilitator need to adopt in the developing world. While teachers play essential roles in nurturing students to become ‘good citizens’ because they are the key figures in implementing education and curriculum policies in schools. The 21st century classroom is one place where change is as inevitable as it is. The mandate of the educator has always been to guide the learner.
Introduction “Companies today are rushing headlong to become more digital… This often results in piecemeal initiatives or misguided efforts…[regarding their use of social media platforms]” (Dorner and Edelman, 2015:1) In a society where social media has a profound impact on businesses we ask ourselves just how effective can it be? And if not effective, what are the negative impacts?