The importance of integrating technology across the curriculum has been
prominent in educational literature for the past decade. Numerous obstacles have been
identified and documented surrounding the successful integration of technology in public
schools. Access to hardware, appropriate software, professional training for educators,
technical and financial support to sustain meaningful uses of technology in schools are
the primary areas to be addressed when designing a comprehensive information
technology implementation strategy for educational environments. The obstacles are
clear, but many educational leaders have failed to develop a model which successfully
addresses the challenge of integrating the use of technology as a tool for teaching and
learning and as a means of constructing new knowledge for and by students.
This paper will explore how technology facilitates learning through inquiry and
how inquiry supports a constructivist/constructionist approach to teaching and learning
for students and professional staff. This will lead to an examination of how inquiry and
constructivism advance the integration of technology in education and how it provides a
venue for developing communities of inquiry in schools.
A framework for two initiatives developed for Yukon schools will be presented
which address many of the challenges common to the successful integration of
technology in public schools today. Both initiatives, the Computer Resource Teacher
Model (CRTM) and Technology Learning Communities (TLC), promote integrative and
constructive uses of technology through an inquiry-based approach to teaching and
learning with computers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11042 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Davidson, Jo Ann Christine |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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