Abstract
This paper reports on one strand of a PhD study that examines newly qualified teachers’ use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to support teaching and learning in Scottish primary classrooms during the first two years of their career. Preliminary data analysis indicates that some of the new teachers are creative, innovative users of new technologies who have embedded ICT effectively into their classroom practice while others remain reluctant users. This paper looks at some of the factors that differentiate the creative from the reluctant. Three levels of influence are discussed, and the interactions between them. They are the national/authority level, the school level and the individual or personal level. Some necessary, although not in themselves sufficient, conditions for creative use of ICT are identified as well as some desirable ones.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society |
Subtitle of host publication | IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings |
Editors | Nicholas Reynolds, Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 424-434 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-15377-8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Event | IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 20 Sept 2010 → 23 Sept 2010 |
Conference
Conference | IFIP TC 3 International Conference, KCKS 2010 |
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Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Brisbane |
Period | 20/09/10 → 23/09/10 |
Keywords
- ICT teaching
- teaching
- creativity
- information and communications technologies
- primary schools
- teacher learning
- ICT uptake by teachers