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Ipad And Pedagogy: Exploring The Impact Of One-To-One Ipad Classroom Integration On Perceived Educator Effectiveness, Steven Lesky

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

This qualitative study explored how one high school history teacher and one middle school English teacher from an independent school in southern California prepared to integrate a class set of iPads into their instruction, and investigated how the instructors perceived that iPad integration affected their pedagogies and effectiveness as educators. One-to-one programs and "BYOD” (bring your own device) policies are currently being considered by schools, and are more easily adoptable in private, highly affluent institutions. Studies related to educational technology are plentiful, but empirical research addressing the role of the instructor in adopting such innovations is remarkably scarce and will …