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End date: 2000 × Start date: 1995 × Type: Masters Research thesis × Subject: Laptop computers × Subject: Victoria ×

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    A study of teachers' experiences of six years of laptop computers in the classrooms of a senior secondary school
    Nicholson, J. A ( 2000)
    This is the report of a study based on a Melbourne Secondary School looking at the use of laptop computers made by the staff in their teaching. Questionnaires were the instrument used to find a measure of the level of penetration and overall acceptance of laptop computers and computer technology by the Teaching Staff. The questionnaire was administered in 1997 and again in 1999. This study looks, with regard to the use of laptop computers by staff, at aspects of the teaching curriculum, administrative tasks and teaching at the classroom level over the two-year period 1997 to 1999. The questionnaire used is a `census' of all staff teaching at Years 9-12 where the laptop program is mandatory in a variety of study areas. The finding of this report is that the program at Goodlands Grammar has, at least in the short term, created a teaching environment that is still working within the traditional curriculum, using computers to achieve traditional outcomes. The computer has not, as yet, become integrated into the classroom program; rather it remains a complicated overlay to the existing curriculum.
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    Teachers concerns in the implementation of laptop computers: four case studies
    Allitt, M. Denise ( 1995)
    This study examines the concerns four teachers experience when confronted with technological innovation: the introduction of the laptop computer into their classroom. It attempts to define the factors which inhibit or encourage the move from an emphasis on personal concerns to ones which focus on the student as learner and finally lead to the teacher reflecting on their own practices and being able to share new knowledge with others. Through interview; observation and discussion this study explores these teachers' feelings and reactions to what is happening in their classrooms. The study is located in the social action of the teachers in their schools. It has chosen to emphasise the institutional factors in particular rather than looking to social uses the computer has been put to in classroom.