Internet Use By Teachers

see also - The "Exemplary Teacher" Paper— How It Arose and How It Changed Its Author's Research Program

1. Probability sample of 4-12 grade teachers
2. 2250 reponses (return rate of 69.4%)
3. Data collected in spring '98

1. 68% of teachers report using the internet to find information resources.
2. 28% doing this on a weekly basis.
3. Only 16% of teachers communicated with teachers outside their school via email as often as 5 times during the school year.

Rates of Computer and Internet Use by Children in Nursery School and Students in Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade: 2003 - National Center for Education Statistics.

• How has information technology supported your classroom needs to meet new assessment and accountability expectations?
• What do you consider to be some of the most pressing challenges faced by school districts in light of these new expectations?
  • Schools?
  • Teachers?
• In what ways can information technology address these challenges?
• What are some of the new sources of student data that you now have access to?
• How does your school use data to make school based decisions?
• How do you use data to make classroom decisions?

Using the WWW for Teaching and Learning in K-12 Classrooms: What Are the Interesting Research Questions?

• suggests that research questions should be theoretically grounded, interesting, illuminating and productive
• presents three criteria:
  1. Questions should be situated in progressive instructional contexts
  2. Questions should focus on what is happening in Web-supported learning environments in addition to measuring outcomes
  3. Questions should emphasize the unique capacities of the Web as a tool or medium