TY - CHAP
T1 - The integration of digital tools during strategic and interactive writing instruction
AU - Kilpatrick, Jennifer Renee
AU - Saulsburry, Rachel
AU - Dostal, Hannah M.
AU - Wolbers, Kimberly A.
AU - Graham, Stephen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/4/30
Y1 - 2014/4/30
N2 - The purpose of this chapter is to gain insight from the ways a group of elementary teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing chose to integrate digital tools into evidence-based writing instruction and the ways these technologies were used to support student learning. After professional development that exposed these teachers to twelve new digital tools, they were observed incorporating several new tools into their instruction; however, most of the tools were not the ones targeted during professional development. There are factors related to both teacher perspectives and professional development design that seem to play a role in what digital tools are used, how they are used, and who uses them. Based on these factors, suggestions are made for the design of future professional development that more effectively introduces technologies to teachers and supports their efforts to integrate these tools into classroom instruction.
AB - The purpose of this chapter is to gain insight from the ways a group of elementary teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing chose to integrate digital tools into evidence-based writing instruction and the ways these technologies were used to support student learning. After professional development that exposed these teachers to twelve new digital tools, they were observed incorporating several new tools into their instruction; however, most of the tools were not the ones targeted during professional development. There are factors related to both teacher perspectives and professional development design that seem to play a role in what digital tools are used, how they are used, and who uses them. Based on these factors, suggestions are made for the design of future professional development that more effectively introduces technologies to teachers and supports their efforts to integrate these tools into classroom instruction.
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U2 - 10.4018/978-1-4666-5982-7.ch030
DO - 10.4018/978-1-4666-5982-7.ch030
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84949453070
SN - 1466659823
SN - 9781466659827
SP - 608
EP - 628
BT - Handbook of Research on Digital Tools for Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings
PB - IGI Global
ER -