Supporting Research

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World - Tony Wagner 2012

Tony Wagner provides rationale for developing an innovation-centered classroom with an emphasis on play, passion, and purpose to create a culture of teamwork, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic incentives.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-004-1600-y

Findings: There appears to be a strong positive relationship between using information technology for educational purposes and involvement in effective educational practices such as active and collaborative learning and student–faculty interaction.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131509003285

Findings: The results show a general positive relationship between the use of learning technology and student engagement and learning outcomes

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2007.00227.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Findings: Results indicated that online research, productivity tools, drill and practice, and eCommunications were the most frequent uses of computers in the 1:1 classroom. Moreover, the 1:1 classroom provided potentially transformative added value to these uses while simultaneously presenting unique management challenges to the teacher.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15391523.2008.10782516#.VeHiPvlViko

Findings: Results of the study revealed that in the hands of well prepared teachers, laptops enabled disadvantaged students to engage in powerful learning experiences. Although quantitative data did not reveal significant differences in student attitudes towards computers and school between laptop and comparison students, qualitative data indicated that laptop integration created enhanced motivation and engagement with schoolwork, influenced classroom interactions, and empowered students. Such behaviors were not evident among comparison students. Furthermore, qualitative data indicated that the laptop program produced academic gains in writing and mathematics within the laptop group.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15391523.2008.10782526#.VeHiQPlViko

Findings:Results suggest laptop implementation and professional development can lead to increased student-centered teaching, increased tool-based teaching, and increased meaningful use of technology. This research suggests that laptop implementation coupled with professional development may have an immediate impact on instructional practices.

https://usm.maine.edu/sites/default/files/cepare/19MLTI_Report1_2004.pdf

Findings:More than 4 out of 5 teachers surveyed reported that students aremore engaged in their learning, more actively involved in their own learning, and produce better quality work.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15544800701771614#.VeHjnPlVikp

Findings: Important changes noted in the processes, sources, and products of literacy were along the lines often touted by educational reformers but seldom realized in schools. For example, reading instruction featured more scaffolding and epistemic engagement, whereas student writing became more iterative; more public, visible, and collaborative; more purposeful and authentic; and more diverse in genre. Students also gained important technology-related literacies such as those that involve analysing information or producing multimedia.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-010-9150-8

Findings:Study findings suggest that integration of 1:1 laptop computing positively impacts student academic engagement and student learning. Therefore, there is need for teachers to implement appropriate computing practices to enhance student learning.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-006-9016-3

Findings: This study revealed multiple forms of evidence that the Web-LE and the associated learning activity improved students’ motivation.

http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/jtla/article/view/1655

Findings: ...laptop students showed significantly higher achievement in nearly all measures after one year in the program.

http://jec.sagepub.com/content/48/3/267.abstract

Findings: This study suggests that well-planned use of laptops and digital media can help diverse learners improve their literacy processes and outcomes.

http://jec.sagepub.com/content/46/1/1.abstract

Findings: The findings reveal greater use of research-based best practices in FTL classrooms and greater teacher confidence to integrate technology as compared to normative data. FTL students performed as well as control students yet demonstrated greater 21st century knowledge and skills.

http://jec.sagepub.com/content/38/3/305.short

Findings: Interviews, observations, surveys, and analysis of student work indicated that the program helped facilitate writing-intensive, information-rich, multimodal, and student-centered instruction. Analysis of test scores in English and mathematics indicate that laptop students failed to keep up with non-laptop students in the first year of implementation but made strong gains in the second year of implementation.

http://jec.sagepub.com/content/45/3/359.short

Findings: Based on the analysis of data, laptop computing had a positive impact across districts, particularly in regard to changes in teaching practices. Increases in student achievement were also demonstrated across districts.