How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in ... - Prisa Digital
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V. OTHER IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON TEACHERS/STUDENTS (15 m<strong>in</strong>)<br />
QUESTION: Overall, technology has a (positive/neg<strong>at</strong>ive) impact on your ability to do your job<br />
well?<br />
Go around the room <strong>and</strong> probe answers. Themes to discuss…<br />
o Professionaliz<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>and</strong> tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g?<br />
o Communic<strong>at</strong>e <strong>and</strong>/or collabor<strong>at</strong>e with one another? Use onl<strong>in</strong>e teach<strong>in</strong>g forums<br />
to give/seek advice about th<strong>in</strong>gs like lesson plans, classroom discipl<strong>in</strong>e?<br />
o Communic<strong>at</strong>e with students? Does technology strengthen or weaken<br />
communic<strong>at</strong>ion between teachers <strong>and</strong> students?<br />
o Communic<strong>at</strong>e with parents/families?<br />
o Disparities across students?<br />
o Support from school <strong>in</strong> provid<strong>in</strong>g access to new technologies to teachers <strong>and</strong>/or<br />
students? Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g?<br />
o Does your school provide any specific tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g or support to help teachers use<br />
new technologies effectively?<br />
o Do th<strong>in</strong>gs like cell phones, text<strong>in</strong>g, IM, etc distract your students’ <strong>at</strong>tention from<br />
wh<strong>at</strong>’s happen<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> class? Rules?<br />
o Che<strong>at</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> plagiarism [already covered]<br />
VI. CLOSING THOUGHTS (10 m<strong>in</strong>)<br />
Before we end, are there th<strong>in</strong>gs we didn’t talk about th<strong>at</strong> you want to br<strong>in</strong>g up?<br />
One last question….Given the pace of development <strong>in</strong> digital technologies, where do you see the<br />
classroom/school environment 10 or 20 years from now? <strong>How</strong> will it be different/similar to<br />
today’s classrooms? <strong>How</strong> will students have changed?<br />
[INCENTIVES AND PIZZA]<br />
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