Learning outcome dependency on contemporary ICT in the New Zealand middle school classroom

  • Authors:
  • Claire Timpany;Nicholas Vanderschantz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand;University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Often studies of children's technology use in the classroom is internally focused and small scale. This study attempts a globalised exploratory overview of an entire New Zealand middle school to understand the technology usages across a range of curriculum and learning outcomes. Observations of the use of technology in the classroom during eight different lessons were conducted followed by structured-open-ended interviews. From our classroom observations and through teacher interviews, we have been able to identify three levels of the dependency of learning outcome on contemporary-ICT.