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Injecting or Integrating Technology in the Classroom: The Interaction Effects of Teacher Technological Expertise and Technology Integration Training on Native American Student Learning
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Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Atlanta, GA, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-52-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

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Is knowing how to teach combined with high technological skills sufficient to guarantee the integration of technology that enhances student performance? A study was conducted to investigate differences between student gains by teachers' level of technological skills and by teachers' prior training in integration techniques. Participants were 16 teachers and 387 K-12 students from around the Navajo Nation. The results of a 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA revealed an interaction effect on measures of student learning, with students whose teachers had high technology expertise and had attended contextual training scoring significantly higher (M = 33.43, SD = 22.79) than students whose teachers were high in technological expertise but had not attended training on how to employ that technology in the classroom (M = 14.63, SD = 23.44). This result suggests that teachers need training on how to use technologies within the specific educational context in which they intend to use them.

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Zittle, F. & Zittle, R. (2004). Injecting or Integrating Technology in the Classroom: The Interaction Effects of Teacher Technological Expertise and Technology Integration Training on Native American Student Learning. In R. Ferdig, C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, N. Davis, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2004--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2794-2798). Atlanta, GA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 6, 2021 from .

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