Factors influencing technology integration in teaching: a Taiwanese perspective

TLDR

Computer technology is an innovative classroom tool, yet creative teachers may use it less intensively than other creative strategies. The study examined how teachers integrate technology into creative teaching and identified factors influencing its use. Eight award‑winning teachers were interviewed to explore their perceptions and key issues surrounding technology use in creative teaching. Factors influencing technology integration were grouped into environmental, personal, social, and curricular categories.

Abstract

Although the use of computer technology in classrooms is an innovative approach to teaching, teachers with creativity might not use technology as intensively as they use other creative strategies in the classroom. Eight teachers who won an award for creative teaching were interviewed in order to identify the factors affecting their use of technology in creative teaching. Teachers' perceptions about technology use were studied. Two major issues were explored. First, we studied how teachers integrated technology into creative teaching; we then identified the factors that influenced teachers' use of technology in teaching. The identified factors were classified into four categories: environmental, personal, social and curricular issues.