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Berkshire County Teachers' Uses of the Internet. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 220
This study draws on both quantitative and qualitative
data collected
from public and private high school teachers in
Berkshire County,
Massachusetts, to describe their uses of, beliefs
about, and
knowledge base surrounding the Internet for teaching
and learning.
Before the outcomes of teachers’ uses of the Internet
can be
addressed, there must first be a clear understanding
of how
teachers are actually using it for preparation,
instruction, and
student-directed work. 142 teachers responded to a
survey and nine
participants were chosen from six of the schools to
provide richer
detail and further examples of major trends
discovered in the survey
data. The grounded theory, complementary methods
study elicited
themes that suggest how and why the preponderance of the
participants are currently using the Internet to
inform and enrich
their professional practice and suggest a new domain
of teacher
knowledge, namely technological pedagogical content
knowledge.
Key factors influencing teachers’ decisions about
Internet use
include their perceptions about its importance for
teaching and
learning as well as about the obstacles it poses.
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