Education technologies and teacher's professional development. The project Motus (Monitoring Tablet Utilization in School) run by CREMIT (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

This paper intends to deepen the relationship between teachers’ professional development and technology as educational issue, through the discussion of a case study - the project Motus that combines research and intervention as core actions – focused on the introduction of mobile devices in nine Italian schools (located in Lombardy, Emilia and Marche). The outcome of the project, recently discussed, allows us to highlight some of the dynamics in teachers’ innovation-related practices, reducing the weight of many conversations that combine innovation with technology, bypassing the human context in which the innovation would find place and meaning. The aim of the project was, in fact, to give teachers the opportunity to undertake a course on the pedagogical use of the device, and enquiry into the main pedagogical problems and opportunities related to the use of mobile devices in the classroom, with the support of a research center and the competence of a team of researchers: teachers ...

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