Promoting Teachers' Technology Professional Development through Laptops.

This paper reports on a survey study that was carried out to determine the impact levels of laptops use on teachers' technology professional development. Teachers' technology professional development is approached as a constructivism process that demands teachers to learn how to use technology and a...

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Publicado en:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 137 - 146
Autores principales: Khambari, Mas Nida Md., Luan, Wong Su, Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Universiti Putra Malaysia Mar2012
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          Khambari, Mas Nida Md.
          Luan, Wong Su
          Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd.
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          Department of Foundation Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
          Department of Science and Technical Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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        Career development
        Laptop computers
        Educational technology
        Teacher education
        Mathematics education
        Educational innovations
        Science education
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          Career development
          Laptop computers
          Educational technology
          Teacher education
          Mathematics education
          Educational innovations
          Science education
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        Impact
        laptop
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        PPSMI
        professional development
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      ab: This paper reports on a survey study that was carried out to determine the impact levels of laptops use on teachers' technology professional development. Teachers' technology professional development is approached as a constructivism process that demands teachers to learn how to use technology and apply them in their daily routines. Teachers in this study were granted laptops from the Teaching-Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) programme. Hence, they were regarded as the early adopters of technology innovation in schools, and became the agents of change. It is believed that playing the teachers' role as the agents of change has contributed on a significant change in their practice. Based on the notion, this study was conducted to reveal the impacts of laptop use by teachers on their professional development. A survey was carried out among 386 laptop teachers using a set of questonnaire that measures the impact from four dimensions; namely teaching-learning, the use of resources, communication and sharing of information, and teachers' laptop competency. The findings explicate that teachers' use of laptop has a moderate impact on their technology professional development.
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