Impact on Social Change: Benefits and Barriers to School Culture and the Integration of M-Technology

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Title

Impact on Social Change: Benefits and Barriers to School Culture and the Integration of M-Technology

Subject

education
mobile technology
handhelds
global connections

Description

This paper examines benefits and barriers of m-technology in its growing use in education through a survey conducted at a Canadian teacher education institution (n=350). Topics included are the types of mobile technology devices and how their uses have been rejected and accepted as a socially-situated construct for learning in schools. Issues for new teachers range from the dollar cost of using the devices to the cost of time in learning about these devices. The paper concludes with a central issue of why some devices do not remain in the social construct but are adopted for short periods of time and do not last because barriers prevent their sustainability. The research for this paper was supported in part by a grant from the Imperial Oil Academy for the Learning of Mathematics, Science and Technology.

Creator

Smith, Karen E.
Cap, Orest

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 2 No. 1 (2008)
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2007-12-19

Rights

Copyright (c) 2017 Karen E. Smith, Orest Cap

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Karen Smith E. and Orest Cap, Impact on Social Change: Benefits and Barriers to School Culture and the Integration of M-Technology, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2007, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/835

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