The purpose of this study was to examine factors that may have influenced the decision
to implement tablet technologies within classroom environments. These factors were grouped
and limited to three distinct areas: social and political influences, perceived benefits of
implementation, and influence of varying types of hardware, software and operating systems.
Results indicate that if technology leaders felt external pressures to keep pace with
technological advancements of other corporations, they were more likely to report pressures
from the other social political factors being studied. Multiple perceived educational benefits
were identified including improvement to classroom instruction, increased differentiation of
instruction, enhanced collaboration, better communication and positive public responses.
Hardware preferences were found to describe the characteristics found in the Apple line of
products. Despite the identification of these perceived educational benefits, a majority of those
responding felt that tablet devices did not impact student testing achievement. / Department of Educational Leadership
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:123456789/198105 |
| Date | 03 May 2014 |
| Creators | White, James A. (James Alec) |
| Contributors | McKinney, Joseph R. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
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