Cascading the use of Web 2.0 technology in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: identifying the barriers beyond pre-service training

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Boulton, H. ORCID: 0000-0003-4671-0182 and Hramiak, A., 2014. Cascading the use of Web 2.0 technology in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: identifying the barriers beyond pre-service training. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 23 (2), pp. 151-165. ISSN 1747-5139

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2013.802994

Abstract

This paper reports on research that took place at Nottingham Trent University and Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, over two years. The research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 technology, specifically web logs, with pre-service teachers, both during their university programme and the first year of teaching as full-time newly qualified teachers (NQTs). The purpose of this research was to add a developing body of knowledge by identifying whether technology used by pre-service teachers during their training course can be cascaded into their practice once qualified. Key findings identify a number of enablers and barriers to cascading technology in the classroom; these include curriculum time, pupil skills and support. The research concludes that early professional support and development should be on-going and assumptions about new teachers as champions of cascading innovative use of Web 2 technologies into their practice as NQTs may be over optimistic

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Journal article

Publication Title:

Technology, Pedagogy and Education

Creators:

Boulton, H. and Hramiak, A.

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Taylor & Francis

Date:

2014

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