What is it about?
The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ beliefs regarding the integration of technologies from the 2011 K-12 edition of the Horizon Report into their local, public school contexts. Teachers read the Horizon Report and then participated in an asynchronous, threaded discussion focusing on technologies they would like to see integrated into their classrooms and technologies they do not see possible in the near term.
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Why is it important?
Findings include the participant teachers’ desire to see mobile technologies integrated into their classrooms, and their belief that there are significant barriers to game-based learning. Cloud computing, mobiles, game-based learning, and open content were all mentioned in this study.
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Participant teachers did not have sophisticated concepts for how to use mobile devices in their classes. It would be interesting to see if teachers have different ideas about the use of mobile learning now. In the case of game-based learning, the teacher participants seemed to be more open to integrating them than their administrators and parents. Is this still the case? We looked at beliefs about the various technologies between rural and urban schools, but were limited in findings due to small numbers of participants. More data points may have revealed some differences between beliefs in rural vs. urban schools.
Professor of Instructional Technology Charles B. Hodges
Georgia Southern University
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This page is a summary of: Technologies on the Horizon: Teachers Respond to the Horizon Report, TechTrends, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11528-014-0754-5.
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