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This qualitative study explores Saudi female teachers' experience of technology use in their practice and life. The aim is to present the voices of these female teachers living in the context of Saudi Arabia, and to document how personal characteristics, society and technology come to influence one another. The field work was done in Saudi Arabia, with female teachers from three public-sector primary schools. The data generation included individual, semi-structured interviews with four Saudi female teachers - one from each of two schools and two from the third school - and focus groups sessions with five to six teachers - one session in each of the three schools. The focus group methodology used Ketso, which is a collaborative mind-mapping tool developed at the University of Manchester. The interview and focus group sessions were audio-recorded, transcribed and then analysed using broad principles of thematic analysis. The data suggests that technology use affected the teachers' classroom practices, communication with others and their professional development. The teachers were active agents in this technology use, including taking responsibility for the technology use in their schools, and improvising solutions and ways of using available resources in their practice. This active role of the teachers seemed to contribute to localised use of technology, enabled the teachers to resist some of their social positions as females and teachers, and occasionally included a determination to create new positions for themselves. Overall, technology use appeared to enhance the Saudi female teachers' sense of agency, and crucially, seemed to enhance their awareness of their lived experience. The above insights might benefit Saudi educational policy makers, other Saudi teachers as a way of sharing experiences and practices, and researchers who are interested in studying the intersection between technology and society. In addition, the study exemplifies the novel use of the Ketso collaborative mind-mapping tool as a tool for qualitative research.

The development of sensor-based technologies has opened up avenues for a dialogue between the body and digital spaces, uncovering new possibilities for cross-disciplinary projects and engagements that demand new methods compatible with the ethos of embodied practices, which, in turn, require new approaches and tools. This research seeks to address this need by examining the quantifiability and visual properties of embodied emotion through a multi-layered study of human movement and gesture. It is an elaboration of scientific and artistic research methods, intended to answer the following principal question and related sub-questions: How can emotions, expressed via whole-body movement be visually documented and archived as a reference framework to stimulate the use and studies of expressive gesture in digital environments? As a consequence the following sub-questions become relevant for this research: The first, ontological in its nature; what is expressed emotion? And the second, methodological; how can bodily expressed emotions be visualised and quantified? To answer these questions, the research is divided into three parts. Drawing on phenomenological interpretative inquiry and heuristic methodology, whole-body emotive expressions are documented and analysed from multiple perspectives: body, expressiveness, time, space volume and their correlations. The first part contains information related to video data collection and the database design. The second part describes silhouette extractions of whole body emotive expressions and an online survey where the visual perception of visual data is measured. The third part of the research contains visual and quantitative data analysis providing the basis for visualisation of the four archetypal emotions: anger, fear, joy and sadness and their relationships. In this process, a multi-method approach was adopted combining both qualitative and quantitative methods adopted from sociology and cognitive science. The contextual review, where virtual embodiment and interactivity are explored build on the aesthetics of performance within new technology, highlighting the adaptability of the methods used in performance art to the field of game design. The results of this research and contribution to knowledge reside within both the ontological and methodological approaches used within this study. The ontological resides within the development of two reference frameworks: a correlation table defined as the Periodic Table of Movements (PTM) and a PTM database. The PTM database is a synthesis of embodied emotion data derived from multiple visual representations such as colour, shape, space, volume, time and intensity, whereas the relationship between expressions is visualised in the PTM correlation table. Within the context of an educational framework, the database also provides visual concepts of emotion as epistemic objects for analysis and experimentation. It is a starting point for future cross-disciplinary studies and research on emotions in the context of embodiment and digital technology. The novel methodology of this research contributes to a number of fields with new methods and models of enquiry, grounded within a hermeneutical interpretation driven by artistic development. This exploration opens up a holistic approach to future studies and research grounded in a multimodal attitude to knowledge acquisition.

Thesis (M.Ed.)(Hons)--University of Western Sydney, Nepean 1999. / Includes appendices. "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (Hons)" Bibliography : leaves 219-235.

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Thesis (M.M.)--East Carolina University, 1998. / Submitted to the faculty of the School of Music. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 13).

This study evaluated Department of Foreign Language Education students&amp / #65533 / perceptions on technology competence in regard to National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) developed by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), in Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey. The NETS-T&amp / #65533 / s six sub standards -technology operations and concepts / planning and designing learning environments and experiences / teaching, learning, and the curriculum / assessment and evaluation / productivity and professional practice / social, ethical, legal, and human issues- were investigated in the study. 383 students participated in the study. 103 of them were freshmen, 98 of them were sophomores, 96 of them were juniors, and 86 of them were seniors. Besides, 96 of them were males, while 287 of them were females. This study was designed as a cross-sectional survey study. In order to collect the data, a survey, consisted of 44 Likert type, five point scale items, was developed by the researcher. The study results show that except for &amp / #65533 / technology operations and concepts&amp / #65533 / for which male students&amp / #65533 / perceptions were higher than female students&amp / #65533 / perceptions there was no significant difference between male and female students. There was no significant difference in &amp / #65533 / technology operations and concepts&amp / #65533 / across grade levels. There were no significant differences between freshmen&amp / #65533 / s and sophomores&amp / #65533 / perceptions for all of the sub-standards. In general, juniors&amp / #65533 / perceptions on the competence of NETS-T were higher than freshmen&amp / #65533 / s and sophomores&amp / #65533 / perceptions, and seniors&amp / #65533 / perceptions were higher than all of the other grade levels&amp / #65533 / perceptions. As a result, the findings of the study indicated that students&amp / #65533 / perceptions related with their competencies in the NETS_T needs to be increased.

This thesis deals with the problems of applying information technologies at primary school. The first theoretical part of the thesis presents important terminology such as information technology, educational software, etc. and considers the pros and cons of using computers in lessons. It also identifies the role of the teacher in computer education and further classifies and evaluates teachware. The second practical part consists of a survey and a project. The aim of the survey was to find out how frequently teachware is used in English lessons at Czech primary schools. The data for the survey were collected at five primary schools in the Tábor region. The aim of the project was to create, verify and evaluate an English language teachware suitable for English lessons at primary school.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:50:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ARIOVALDO_DISSERTACAO_7_12.pdf: 1837301 bytes, checksum: 15734afeaec5b6bfdcc527a9d8ac68bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-31 / The development of projects with the use of technology in high school teaching, mainly, computer science in the classes of Physical Education, evidences a different theoric-methodologic trajectory in the teaching action. In this perspective it was questioned the possibilities related to the teaching action about the use of information and communication technology and its implications in the pedagogical work of the teacher. So, we identify and analyze the teaching action about the use of two different environmental teaching methods. The study was elaborated in two environments; the computer science room and the body practical court. Based on a quanti-qualitative methodology the comments had been evaluated by the analysis of the classes time involving the sampling of the time in minutes (min.), which the teacher develop the class. The teacher activities during this period of time are codified considering the management of the class time (min) subdivided in instruction, task development and feedback. Seven pertaining groups from high school were analyzed in two environments. The data has been dealt with statistics program 6.0 by means of descriptive statistics, percentile reduction, test observed versus spectead (qui-square). The real results of the pedagogical action have shown 24.0 ± 5.0 % of instruction, 51.0 ± 6.0 % of the task development and 14.0 ± 7.0 of feedback. The X2 test of showed the value of 18.5 (P < 0.05) characterizing influences of the amount of time in the pedagogical action of the teacher. We consider that the use of technologies as communication and information in two environments allows the teacher to structuralize a context of different styles of education and learning. / O desenvolvimento de projetos no ensino médio com a utilização de tecnologias, principalmente informática nas aulas de educação física, evidencia uma trajetória diferenciada teórico-metodológica na ação docente. Nesse quadro questionamos as possibilidades relativas à ação docente quanto ao uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação e suas implicações na prática pedagógica do professor. Assim, identificamos e analisamos a ação docente quanto ao uso de dois ambientes de ensino diferenciados. Compreendo e estruturando a relação de diferentes ambientes de ensino com a prática pedagógica do professor de Educação Física escolar no ensino médio. O estudo foi elaborado em dois ambientes; a sala de informática e quadra para prática corporal. Com suporte em uma metodologia quanti-qualitativa as observações foram avaliadas por meio de análise do tempo de aula envolvendo a amostragem de tempo em minutos (min.) no qual o professor desenvolve a aula. As atividades do professor durante este período de tempo são codificadas considerando a gestão do tempo de aula (min.) subdividido em instrução, desenvolvimento da tarefa e feedback. Foram analisados nos dois ambientes 7 grupos pertencentes ao ensino médio. Os dados foram tratados com programa statistica 6.0 por meio de estatística descritiva, redução percentual, teste observado versus esperado (qui-quadrado). Os resultados da ação pedagógica real mostraram 24% ± 5% de instrução, 51% ± 6% do desenvolvimento da tarefa e 14% ± 7% de feedback. O teste do observado versus esperado mostrou o valor de qui-quadrado de 18,5 p<0,05 caracterizando a influencia da quantidade de tempo na ação pedagógica do professor. Consideramos que o uso das tecnologias de comunicação e informação nos dois ambientes permite ao professor estruturar um contexto de diferentes estilos de ensino e aprendizagem.