Ict Educational Integration

Abstract

This article Provides a summary of the results of a remarkable MOST research project With The aim of

Analysing the process of Educational integration of information and communication technologies (ICT)

in teaching and learning practices of four primary and secondary schools in the Canary Islands. The

research team has Planned and Developed ethnographic methodologies in a longitudinal study Which

Has Been Performed, over two years, With Participating schools in the Medusa Project (a Government

Educational project to Provide digital technology to all schools, and to train teachers for ICT Educational

use, in the Canary Islands). We selected four schools (three of Early Childhood and Elementary

Education and one of SecondaryEducation). Data collection-through Different Qualitative WAS Conducted

Techniques: interviews (with the management team, the ICT coordinator of the center and the teaching

staff), via classroom observations, and by Conducting focus groups with students. The research team

have tried to Identify the Most Important effects of the Medusa Project, and Specially, of ICT regarding

Organisation innovation in school, teaching in the classroom, in the student learning environment and

in the professional practice of teachers. The results are similar to Broadly Conducted studies in other

international contexts. The Findings Indicate That an organizational Some Changes incorporated ICT Both

at center and classroom level, but not Necessarily pedagogical innovation in teaching practices. Also,

the figure of the teacher and ICT coordinator is an Important catalyst in the process of using digital

Manner in a pedagogical technologies in every school.

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Journal of Education, 352. May-August 2010, p. 77-97

Date of entry: 10-06-2009

Date of acceptance: 05-11-2009

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The process of integration and pedagogical use of ICT in

schools.

A case study

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The process of integration and the pedagogical use of

ICT in schools.

Case...