Thang, Siew Ming and Puvaneswary Murugaiah and Lee, Kean Wah and Hazita Azman and Tan, Lay Yean and Lee, Yit Sim (2010) Grappling with technology: A case of supporting Malaysian Smart School teachers' professional development. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26 (3). pp. 400-416. ISSN 1449-5554
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Abstract
This paper discusses the challenges faced by a group of Smart School teachers in a partnership model designed to help them develop professionally through the use of online tools. This model known as e-CPDelT: Model 2020 is loosely based on the successful, UK based Improving the Quality of Education For All (IQEA) project (Hopkins et al., 1996). The model was piloted on 20 teachers of english, mathematics and science from 5 Smart Schools around Kuala Lumpur. It features collaboration between these teachers in the hope that it would lead to the development of viable communities of practice. Teacher collaboration in this pilot was in the form of (a) sharing text based narratives of perceived good lessons through blogs and (b) sharing of video clips of good lessons through the ViP (Virtual interactive Platform) and (c) forum discussions of lessons. Data were obtained from teacher interviews and mentor reflections. Brinkerhoff's (2006) framework on technology adoption was used to identify the challenges faced by these teachers. The findings revealed that teachers faced resource, institutional, informational and attitudinal problems. The paper concludes with discussion of suggested measures to improve technology adoption by teachers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Malaysian Smart School, Teachers, Professional development, Technology adoption |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB5-3640 Theory and practice of education > LB1705-2286 Education and training of teachers and administrators > LB1775-1785 Professional aspects of teaching and school administrators. Vocational guidance |
| Department: | SCHOOL > School of Education and Social Development |
| Depositing User: | ADMIN ADMIN |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2011 11:07 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2017 16:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/1941 |
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