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Standardization of IT

Schools are characterized by large numbers of users all with similar technological needs. For example, in a school enrolling 500 students in the middle grades and providing one device for each student will need 500 identical devices. Deploying identical devices is particularly important for school populations as teachers must plan for all students to have Read More

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Teaching Via Technology

Teaching via technology describes teaching in which the lesson could be done with or without the technology. The technology may increase the efficiency of some activities, but IT does not influence what students do or how they think about the material being presented.   Consider, for example, a mathematics classroom in which students solve problems on paper. When Read More

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Is Knowledge Enough?

There seems to be increasing rhetoric around returning to the basics in education and focusing on the “easy” part of teaching which is having students recall information they have been told on tests. It is reasoned students must first know the information before they can use it. It is also reasoned if they know the Read More

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Thinking About Motivation

Self-determination theory has been particularly useful in explaining and predicting the motivations and actions of adult learners in educational setting. (Rothes, Lemos, and Goncalves, 2017). According to this theory, motivation arises from either autonomous regulation, which arises within the individual and decisions to initiate and continue engagement are made by the individual, or controlled regulation, Read More