WAG #1 — The National Leveraging Technology study

February 22nd, 2008

 

Today, Dr. Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich discussed Indiana University (Bloomington)’s initiative to discover how teachers are prepared to integrate technology and how they actually do it. She described a 3-phase study in which researchers will first solicit follow-up information from tech integration programs that participated in the NCES study, “Teacher Preparation and Professional Development: 2000.” Then, they will seek and and find teachers that successfully use technology to find trends and conditions that may lead to successful technology integration. Finally, in phase 3, researchers will make site visits to create in-depth case studies of the different populations.

 

Believe it or not, the entire 3-phase, grounded study will be completed (including dissemination) by May of 2009!