The influence of ICT on the interactivity of teaching

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Beauchamp, Gary
Kennewell, Steve
Date
2008Type
Article
Publisher
Springer Science + Business Media
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There has been much concern with the ideas of interactive and dialogic
teaching during recent years in the UK, ideas which have emerged from international
comparisons. This paper concerns a research project in Wales which sought to
explore how the interactive features of information and communication technology
(ICT) support interactivity in teaching. The project found that much use of ICT by
good teachers was at a relatively superficial level of interaction, yet when teachers
used a deeper, more dialogic, level of interactivity in teaching, they achieved
improvements in learning whether they used ICT or not. The potential of ICT to
support more dialogic teaching was not being fully exploited. The paper reports the
findings of the classroom observation dimension of the project, and examines the
implications for pedagogical practices and the development/dissemination of ICT
resources which can support more dialogic interactivity.
Journal/conference proceeding
Education and Information Technologies
Citation
Beauchamp, G. and Kennewell, S. (2008) The influence of ICT on the interactivity of teaching. Education and Information Technologies, 13 (4), pp. 305 - 315.
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