Our students have changed with respect to how they receive
instruction. The days of pencils and
paper in the classroom will soon be obsolete.
Our kids, especially on the elementary level, are now digital learners. They will no longer be engaged with handouts
and overheads. We as educators must then
move into this digital world with them in order to provide the quality
instruction they will need to succeed.
My action research
project will examine the impact of integrated technology in the classroom on
student engagement and learning. The
contextual setting of my research will be one of the Title 1 schools in which I
currently work. I believe it will be a
good arena for this research because of its diverse ethnicity, economic
miscellany and varied scholastic level students.
After consulting with my site supervisor, my target
population will be the third grade students at my campus. I feel that the third grade is a big
transitional year for students as they are moving from what I call repetitive
based learning, meaning that they learn a basic concept and drill on that
concept in order to get a foundation, to higher order thinking education, where
they will have to develop original ideas and thought.
The size of this class of students will be large enough to
provide a representative sample of students throughout our district and still
be logistically manageable for assessment, data collection and analysis.
My research will be conducted via both formal and informal
methods. Primary of course will be a literature review to educate myself on any
previous studies in this area. I also plan on using surveys of both students
and teachers, interviews, observation, actual modeling of integrated technology
and assessments to obtain solid data for analysis and review.
The significance of this research project will
help our campus as well as our district to align the use of technology with
curriculum to better engage our new and future digital students thus improving
the overall learning culture of our schools.
It will help us to become 21st century teachers!
Technology is the way to go. I know there is a couple of our classmates also conducting research on how technology impacts current and future instruction. Can't wait to see how your research is similar and different. At my campus, we are not there yet. I feel that if we (teachers) get the technology we should also get the training so that we can implement it correctly. Technology is our future; who knows in a couple of years teachers may even be replaced by it.
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