Although one-to-one technology programs are rapidly expanding in secondary schools, the literature about how to effectively leverage these programs to improve teaching and learning is relatively small. Little guidance is available for school leaders attempting to improve teachers' willingness and ability to incorporate technology effectively into their instruction. The purpose of this mixed-methods case study was to discovery what supports school leaders provide to promote high levels of computer self-efficacy and transformational digital pedagogies in one-to-one learning environments. Data were collected from English language arts, Social Studies, and science teachers in three high schools in a suburban school district in northeast Texas using an online survey, eight virtual semi-structured interviews, and two virtual focus group interviews. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and deductive and inductive analysis. The findings of the study reveal most teachers perceived their ability to effectively deliver digital instruction as strong, and most were able to incorporate technology into their lessons at transformational levels. The following themes emerged from data regarding teachers' perceptions of support: shared vision, realistic and supportive climate, collaboration, encouragement, job-embedded professional learning, continuous improvement, equity, and safe, legal, and ethical use. The findings of this study serve as a foundation for understanding how school leaders can best support teachers as they attempt to integrate one-to-one technology into their lessons.

This qualitative study examines expert instructors’ lived experienced with online pedagogy in order to (1) understand how teaching in a virtual environment influences pedagogical style, academic identity and student-instructor interactions and (2) to explore how the virtual teaching experience evolves as faculty continue to teach online. None of the existing empirical research has focused on accomplished instructors’ online teaching experiences and, as a result, there is very little information concerning how to sustain faculty approval, retain skilled instructors, provide adequate online teaching support and maintain a successful online learning enterprise over time (Coppola, et al., 2002; Bolliger & Wasilik, 2009; Betts, 2014). Using a constructivist design, this study employed interviews and content analysis techniques to explore the following research questions: 1) What challenges do experienced online faculty face when they teach in the virtual learning environment? 2) What new challenges have emerged as a result of their continued online teaching experience? 3) How do experienced instructors approach and address these challenges? Thirty-one self-identified experienced online instructors from across the nation and a variety of institutions participated. Findings show that continued online teaching experience has a profound impact on the way instructors perceive their pedagogical practice, their place in the academy and their role in students’ online learning experiences. The online environment presents instructors with a multitude of challenges. These challenges are complex and involve pedagogical issues as well as philosophical dilemmas that force instructors to reconsider their assumptions about teaching, learning and authority in the classroom. Wrestling with these issues puts instructors in a vulnerable position as they search for pragmatic solutions and simultaneously renegotiate their long-held academic assumptions and beliefs. The practical and philosophical challenges instructors experience in regards to their developing digital pedagogical practice, their changing relationship with students, and their evolving online academic identity are discussed as well as findings related to vulnerability in the online environment. Implications for online faculty development, limitations and areas for improvement are also considered.

Although previous research has been conducted on the differences between online and face-toace discussions in the classroom setting, this previous body of research has not focused on the effect the inclusion of an online component of discussion can have on the creation of academic identity. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this research uses three student surveys and three instructor surveys and measures the use of first person pronouns and active and passive voice by students on online discussion boards in order to draw conclusions about the students’ and instructor’s perceptions about the impact online discussion boards have on the creation of academic identity. Similar to previous studies, quantitative data showed no significant difference; however, conclusions drawn from the qualitative data collected suggest that both the students and the instructor participating in the survey perceive that online discussion boards have a positive impact on the creation of academic identity.

This thesis in Educational Theory explores how teachers in Denmark reconfigured their practices of teaching to be conducted via digital means during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a time where people were locked away in isolation from the world they knew due to the threat of a of the deadly virus, I show the reconfiguration of teaching practices that subsequently impacted educational relations situated in, out and alongside the classroom. Accordingly, I draw from interviews I conducted with teachers, reflecting on their lived experiences during this period, that gives insight into how they responded to the sudden and forced shift of the (digital) classroom. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s concepts of ‘banking education’, ‘dialogue’ and ‘alienation’ with Nel Noddings’ notion of ‘care’, I argue for an approach oriented towards care and attention to the ways in which teachers are both limited in their efforts of caring but also find new ways of doing so within the changed, digital classroom. The teachers reconfiguring interventions certainly give hope for the future in which digitalization is expected to increasingly transform classrooms but nonetheless also show a limit to how much hardship the teaching professional ideal of care can endure in educational relations.

Dans une époque marquée par les inquiétudes publiques sur les implications sociétales et environnementales des innovations technoscientifiques, l’enjeu de l’éducation scientifique est de préparer les citoyens à prendre une part active aux choix de société. Tandis que les Inquiry Based Science Education pénètrent les programmes d’enseignements de tous les pays, la généralisation de l’Education au Développement Durable signe l’intégration des enjeux du monde contemporain dans des enseignements problématisés. Dans ce contexte, la scolarisation des Questions Socialement Vives (QSV) place l'incertitude et la complexité au cœur des processus d'enseignement/apprentissage. À la croisée de la didactique des QSV et de la pédagogie numérique, cette thèse vise à documenter les modalités d’apprentissages collectifs de la participation démocratique aux expertises citoyennes de QSV Environnementales. Nous exploitons le potentiel des Environnements Numériques de Travail collaboratifs à élargir les communautés d’apprentissages au-delà des frontières géographiques et des cloisonnements disciplinaires. Nous analysons les évolutions de Raisonnements SocioScientifiques dans une perspective de Durabilité (RSSD) construits collectivement par de futurs enseignants en quatrième année de formation initiale issus de disciplines et institutions universitaires diverses en France et en Australie. L’originalité de ce travail réside dans la mise en relation des interactions socio-discursives avec les niveaux d’approfondissement des RSSD co-construits. Elle révèle l’intérêt majeur des dérangements socio-épistémologiques occasionnés par les rencontres interculturelles. / At a time marked by the public concerns about societal and environmental implications of technoscientific innovations, the purpose of science education is to prepare citizens to take active part on society choices. The generalisation of Education for Sustainable Development signs the integration of world contemporary stakes in problematized Scientific teaching while Inquiry Based Science Education penetrates curriculums of all countries. In such a context, the teaching of Socially Acute Questions (SAQs) incorporates uncertainty and complexity at the heart of the teaching and learning process. Environmental SAQs call for expertises that take stock of socio-ecological interactions at different scales, political and technoscientifical options, interests and values at play, connections between debated problems. At a crossroads of SAQs’ didactics and digital pedagogy, this thesis aims to document forms of collective learning of democratic involvement in citizen expertises of Environmental SAQs. We make use of Digital Work Environment potential to broaden community of learning beyond geographical boundaries and disciplinary compartmentalization. We scrutinize collective SocioScientific and Sustainability Reasoning (S3R) of students in their fourth year of a teacher education degree from different disciplines and Universities in France and Australia. The originality of this work lies in seeing together Socio-Discursive Interactions and improvements of S3R collectively built. It reveals the major interest of socio-epistemologic disturbance occasionned by cross-cultural meetings.

abstract: This study employed Participatory Action Research (PAR) which applied critical pedagogy, actor-network theory, and social network theory to create and implement an Application Framework for Critical Pedagogy (AFCP) with the goal of making critical pedagogy more broadly accessible to a wider range of faculty in higher education. Participants in the study included faculty, staff, and students from Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions of Arizona State University, and data was collected in the form of surveys, interviews, written interactions, and video observations of multidisciplinary committee meetings to build the framework. The study concluded with a functional framework from which faculty and instructional designers alike can work to create better, more effective courses. Including participants of diverse backgrounds, varying power levels, and sometimes opposing perspectives in the study created a diversity of thought and experience which offered the opportunity to refine the purpose, expectations, and specific language of the tool. While the framework is not intended to be a definitive source of critical pedagogy application, this refinement allows the possibility that more faculty, instructional designers, and other higher education stakeholders may find utility in the revised framework as a tool for self-advocating and for professional pedagogical growth. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2020

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:33:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Catia Luciana Pereira.pdf: 17253259 bytes, checksum: 3081d3348b4705e00ed28b5ae73794e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-06 / Colégio Bandeirantes / The present thesis has as objective the investigation of the link between Portuguese Language and new technologies in classroom theory and practical exercises, due to the concern regarding Portuguese Language teaching in High School and its relation to technology and to the necessity to provide theoretical and methodological aid to support pedagogic practices that integrate these fields. For such, we surveyed official documents in this area, we sought to understand scientific knowledge related to both fields, we have analyzed a textbook chapter, we have verified if, in this chapter, such relations become effective considering the treatment given to the blog, and we propose a didactic sequence to complement the textbook approach. The student s communicative competence is a necessary condition to citizenship practice, as it allows the individuals to become critical readers that will know how to express themselves in both oral and written modalities of the language, adapting to the most diverse communicative situations. As the objective of Portuguese Language discipline at school today is to enable such communicative competence, it is nonsensical to keep separated, as it is traditionally done, the exercises of reading, interpreting, producing texts and analyzing grammar, as well as the exercises of digital technologies. This reality, which should connect the school role, the Portuguese Language teaching and technologies, leads us to formulate two research questions: 1 - What are the assumptions needed to conceive new technologies as Digital Pedagogy components? 2 - How does a High School textbook propose the articulation of the six Pedagogies of Linguistic Education? The Linguistic Education is the theoretical foundation of this study, especially when it comes to the integration of pedagogies of orality, writing, reading, lexicon-grammar and literature to which we add what we have denominated as digital pedagogy. This is proposed because digital competence is today one of the composing elements of communicative competence to be passed onto our students and, as we see it, just as important as the other types of competence / A presente dissertação objetiva investigar as relações entre Língua Portuguesa e as novas tecnologias na teoria e na prática de sala de aula, o que se justifica pela preocupação com o ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Ensino Médio e suas relações com a tecnologia e pela necessidade de fornecer subsídios teóricos e metodológicos para auxiliar a prática pedagógica que integre esses campos. Para tanto, fazemos um levantamento dos documentos oficiais sobre a área, buscamos compreender os saberes científicos relativos aos dois campos, analisamos o capítulo de um livro didático, verificando se nele tais relações se efetivam no tratamento dado ao blog, e propomos uma sequência didática que complemente a abordagem do livro didático. Como o objetivo da disciplina na escola hoje é o desenvolvimento da competência comunicativa do estudante, condição necessária para o exercício da cidadania, de modo a que se torne um leitor crítico e saiba se expressar nas modalidades oral ou escrita da língua, adequando-se às mais diversas situações de comunicação, não faz sentido manter separadas, como tradicionalmente se faz, as práticas de leitura, interpretação, produção textual e gramática, muito menos as tecnologias digitais. Essa realidade, na qual deve haver relação entre a função da escola, o ensino de Língua Portuguesa e as tecnologias, leva-nos a formular duas perguntas de pesquisa: 1 - Quais os pressupostos para se conceberem as novas tecnologias como constituintes de uma Pedagogia do Digital? 2 - Como o livro didático do Ensino Médio propõe a articulação das seis Pedagogias da Educação Linguística? A Educação Linguística é a fundamentação teórica adotada neste trabalho, especialmente no tocante à integração das pedagogias da oralidade, da escrita, da leitura, léxico-gramatical e da literatura às quais acrescentamos o que denominamos de pedagogia do digital, já que a competência digital atualmente é também um dos elementos que compõem a competência comunicativa a ser desenvolvida em nossos estudantes e, a nosso ver, tão importante quanto as demais

Cette thèse sera l’occasion de revisiter le débat sur la cohésion sociale des immigrés en s’appuyant sur les réseaux sociotechniques numériques. La société actuelle est caractérisée par de profondes mutations du fait que les TIC (Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication) sont omniprésentes et envahissent presque tous les champs de la vie sociale. Cependant, ces mutations accélèrent et libèrent un formidable potentiel créatif de développement pour une partie de la population, excluant néanmoins les populations immigrées qui ne maîtrisent pas la langue du pays d’accueil et qui sont très éloignées de la culture TIC. Cette situation d’exclusion rend plus difficile leur intégration sociale.Ainsi se dégage notre hypothèse : les situations de pratique et d’appropriation des TIC dans les réseaux numériques réels de l’éducation populaire peuvent être un levier pour la réduction de la fracture numérique et par conséquent représenter des facteurs impactant l’intégration sociale des immigrés, très éloignés de ces technologies nouvelles. Si oui dans quelles conditions cela est-il possible ? Nous traitons cette question à partir de la relation pentagonale (appropriation des TIC, intégration sociale, dispositif sociotechnique, médiation sociale et pédagogie numérique). L’enjeu est d’étudier un cas concret. Effectivement, à partir d’un cadre empirique et spatial qu’est le quartier Belleville, nous avons montré comment les populations immigrées analphabètes ont pu acquérir un minimum de savoir-faire des TIC. Des tests inédits pour ce type de public ont permis d’évaluer les compétences : traitement de texte, maniement de l’ordinateur et navigation sur le Web.Ce travail s’inscrit dans la double nécessité d’examiner les aspects sociocognitifs de l’apprentissage des adultes très éloignés des systèmes de l’information et de la communication et de proposer de nouvelles approches pour la conception des dispositifs techniques de type espace public numérique ainsi que des usages TIC. / This thesis will allow us to take a new look at the debate on furthering the social integration of immigrants thanks to a socio-technical use of the web. Present-day society is being profoundly altered by the Technologies of Information (TIC) that are omnipresent and increasingly invasive in almost every aspect of the social field.These accelerating mutations are nonetheless liberating a powerful potential of creativity and development for a portion of the population hitherto excluded from mainline society, by the handicap of language in the case of an immigrant population, and by the lack of access to the new technology (TIC). The double exclusion facing these immigrant populations accounts for a large part of their problems with integration. Against this general background, our thesis develops the following hypothesis: mastering the new technologies of information and communication (the TIC) can become a formidable instrument for overcoming handicaps of background, language, education when appropriated within educational facilities outside the official school systems. Overcoming the digital divide can provide a shortcut to full participation in the culture and usages of the society at large. How can this be achieved? Under what conditions? We shall treat these questions via a five-pronged approach: appropriation of TIC, social integration, socio-technical devices, social mediation and digital pedagogy. Our conclusions will be based on the study of a concrete case in a specific environment.We have demonstrated how the people of Belleville, who are largely illiterate, have nonetheless been able to acquire minimal skills in the use of TIC. Tests specifically elaborated by us for this type of public allowed us to evaluate their competency in areas such as word-processing, handling the computer, and surfing on the web. Our study is conditioned by the need, both to examine the social and cognitive aspects of adult apprenticeship where the population concerned is far-removed from normal access to TIC, and to propose new approaches adapted to EPN technical devices as well as to the types of TIC usage this population might need.