Teacher Perceptions of Ed Tech Use

Cleaning out my email (yes, I will do anything to procrastinate cutting my overgrown lawn Up North), I found this Walden University study that points out five myths to educational technology use.  Here's the T.H.E. Journal summary of the study ...

Teachers Report Educational Benefits of Frequent Technology Use -- THE Journal via kwout

And here's the link to the Walden Web site, which contains links to the executive summary and the full report:

Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths via kwout

The five myths of educational technology adoption outlined in this report are:

1.  Teachers who are newer to the profession and teachers who have greater access to technology are more likely to use technology frequently for instruction than other teachers.

2.  Only high-achieving students benefit from using technology.

3.  Given that students today are comfortable with technology, teachers’ use of technology is less important to student learning.

4.  Teachers and administrators have shared understandings about classroom technology use and 21st century skills.

5.  Teachers feel well prepared by their initial teacher preparation programs to effectively incorporate technology into classroom instruction and to foster 21st century skills.

How does this match with your own experiences as a student? With your own perceptions? And, especially in regard to Myth #5, with your expectations for Jeff, me, and the class?

(PS - My blog post over at School Library Monthly on this report is here.)

(PPS - I love using the tool Kwout to quickly and visually link to other content, as shown above.  If you'd like to give it a spin, go to the Kwout site and type in a URL -- I usually cut and paste from the browser toolbar.  Then highlight a portion of the text -- up to 600x600 pixels -- that you want to have appear on your site.  On the next screen, grab the embed code.  Toggle over to the "edit HTML" feature of your blog -- or, on Wikispaces, go to WIDGET > OTHER HTML -- and paste in the code.  Voila! Even the links on the original page remain active.)

(PPPS - I found this report via T.H.E. Journal, which emails me a list of links to their articles every week or so.  If you're intrigued, you can subscribe to the email newsletter here -- I'd click just the first subscription option -- and/or go to the home page and sign up for a free digital or print journal subscription.)