Technology Integration Practice as a Function of Pedagogical Expertise

Abstract

This study investigated how teachers at various levels of technology use and teaching abilities used technology and how technology use related to general teaching practice. Data from case studies of exemplary technology integrators, representing categories of teaching and technology ability, resulted in assertions about the ways these teachers taught with technology, including the existence of teachers’ personal definitions of technology integration, distinctive planning habits when planning for technology inclusion, strategies for teaching about technology that matched teacher learning strategies, management of student computer use, and altered perspectives on assessment. Differences observed among technology use were associated with individual levels of teaching expertise.