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<strong>is</strong> that, in the use of ICT in teaching, we’ve all had that profound experience of it not working ora spectacular crash in front of our pupils or students - a truly critical incident. Mental rehearsal,deep preparation <strong>and</strong> testing of the equipment before h<strong>and</strong>, are just <strong>some</strong> of the ways in whichcolleagues play the ‘inner game’ of teaching with information <strong>and</strong> communications technology.For others, the mental block, the ‘self-interference’ (Green <strong>and</strong> Gallwey, 1986 p. 25) or theassumption of technological breakdown caused <strong>by</strong> powerful experiences of ICT exposure makethem res<strong>is</strong>tant <strong>to</strong> ever trying <strong>to</strong> use technology again. My point <strong>is</strong>, on reflection, that theillustrative moments came <strong>to</strong> the fore as c<strong>and</strong>idates for inclusion in the au<strong>to</strong>/biographic casestudy because of the profound professional learning that they caused. They were every bit asformative as 'that' moment as an age 11 performer or 'that' moment when I was presenting on theBuilding Schools for the Future programme in 2008, <strong>to</strong> the National Association for theAdvancement of Computers in Education (NAACE) conference <strong>and</strong> the whole ICT systemcrashed.The short excursus in<strong>to</strong> the ‘inner game’ of ICT above, has been conducted <strong>to</strong> support myargument that, even though <strong>some</strong> of the illustrative moments for th<strong>is</strong> study occurred <strong>some</strong> <strong>time</strong>ago, their influence on my learning was profound, the insights gained significant <strong>and</strong> the impac<strong>to</strong>n my career incontrovertible. Not only do I ‘know’ what happened, I can recall what I wasfeeling at the <strong>time</strong> <strong>and</strong> thus the changes <strong>to</strong> myself that occurred.Categor<strong>is</strong>ing TimeI real<strong>is</strong>e now that it <strong>is</strong> appropriate <strong>to</strong> describe the accounts provided in the appendices (2-6) asreports at one stage removed from the actual experience. Th<strong>is</strong> was reinforced <strong>by</strong> reviewing theh<strong>and</strong>written journal that I had kept of the New Zeal<strong>and</strong> trip. If th<strong>is</strong> was <strong>to</strong> be categor<strong>is</strong>ed as anequation, it might be represented as a@t 0 , rendering the theoretically-imbued accounts as a@t 1 .174Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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