MOFET ITEC - Technology & Computers

The current study explores macro-level computer-supported collaborative learning scripts as a pedagogical method to facilitate collaboration. This case-study examines the difference between the “ideal” script and the “actual, realized” script to find out how collaboration differs between different groups. This study demonstrates that macro-scripts support collaboration by introducing the reason for interaction and by helping students solve learning tasks.

This paper uses the framework of technological pedagogical content knowledge to analyze findings across projects from the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative. Approaches such as mentoring methods course faculty, teachers, and creating technology-rich instructional materials were associated with increases in preservice teachers' technological knowledge and their frequency of technology-rich instruction during field experiences.

This study was aimed to identify instructional strategies used by teachers to support technology integration. In addition, relations between types of computer applications and teachers' classroom practices were examined. Results reflect use of student-centered practices such as teacher as a facilitator, project-based learning, and independent inquiry.

Bridget Somekh's contributions to the debate on the theory and practice of action research and associated methodologies have often been gained through leadership of innovative action and research with computers in education. A review of her work provides evidence of the journey that starts with an appreciation of the wonders of technology before moving through critical reflection on socio-cultural processes within and across organisations, and out into twenty-first-century knowledge generation. This paper argues that recognition of the construction of individual identities can inform innovation with computers in education.