Technology Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Ninth-Grade Students after One Year of One-to-One Initiative Implementation

This dissertation was designed to gather data regarding the self-efficacy beliefs of ninth graders after experiencing the one-to-one technology initiative for 1 school year. The goal was to obtain information based on the experiences of the students in order to enlighten leaders of other schools and districts when implementing their own technology initiatives. Students, teachers, and administrators were all surveyed regarding the initiative and perceived experience. A focus group of eight students was conducted in order to gather more data regarding the answers to the survey questions. After focus group data were interpreted, three student interviews were held to gather more data regarding the needs of the students in order to feel more confident when using technology for educational purposes. The student and teacher surveys reported overall high areas of self-efficacy after 1 year of using mobile devices in their ninth-grade classrooms. The results seem to point to previous experience with the iPads, multiple teacher instruction, and the popularity of Apple products as factors that led to the mostly positive responses regarding self-efficacy. Frustrations, which may have led to decreased levels of self-efficacy, seem to lie in the areas of students’ perceptions of teacher confidence when utilizing the devices in the classroom, not having the appropriate programs to permit (or having restrictions which prevent) maximized learning experiences, and teachers’ lack of consistency when using the iPads in various classes. According to administrators, teachers, and students, in order to make the initiative better, teachers and administrators should have received more training prior to implementation, the rollout procedure needed to be more precise, and students would have liked more paper/pencil assignments to go along with the iPad use

New computer software, CD-Roms, and videodiscs in K-12 music education: What music educators and media specialists need to know : A selected annotated bibliography

This study identified new music education resources in CD-Rom, videodisc, and computer software formats created from 1990-1995. Each item was evaluated according to its effectiveness in meeting the three different domains of learning; affective, cognitive, and psychomotor. The study also identified items that exhibited multicultural diversity. The resulting annotated bibliography lists twenty-two resources with critical evaluations of use to music teachers and library media specialists

Mike Roland, currently in his second term on the Portland School Committee, will

Mike Roland, currently in his second term on the Portland School Committee, will not seek re-election to his post. Nathan Smith, Bruce Richardson and Cyrus Hagge are running for the Portland City Council. Attorney James Cloutier and real estate broker Nan Sawyer may also run for the city council

Casco Bay Weekly : 29 January 1998

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Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff, January to December, 2012

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2012

Syncing up with the iKid: portrait of seven high school teacher leaders transforming the American high school through a digital conversion of teaching and learning

The purpose of this qualitative study was to focus on the journey of seven high school teacher leaders striving to "sync up" with their students by implementing a one-to-one, mobile computing, teaching and learning, reform initiative. This case study was to give voice to the challenges, successes, and lessons learned during the first year of implementation. The goal was to encapsulate the framework of change as well as their perceptions of how teaching and learning were affected in their classrooms and building in order to better inform practitioners in the field contemplating a digital reform strategy. The research used structured and unstructured interviews, email correspondence, classroom observations, and document reviews. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and content analysis was used to identify consensus, supported and individual themes, lessons learned, "must knows" and recommendations. Six core components were identified by the teachers as necessary to successfully implement a one-to-one mobile computing initiative: Focused Committed Leadership, Community Involvement, High Quality On-going Professional Development, Curriculum and Instruction, Infrastructure and Software Tools, and Understanding the Change Process. The study found that broad leadership skills are required to implement such an extensive plan and that collaborative professional development with persistent commitment and vision are needed to overcome the teachers’ sense of urgency, yet fear of failure, when striving to transform instructional methodology. The study concludes with recommendations and a "how to" flowchart for successful implementation

Deliverable D1.1 State of the art and requirements analysis for hypervideo

This deliverable presents a state-of-art and requirements analysis report for hypervideo authored as part of the WP1 of the LinkedTV project. Initially, we present some use-case (viewers) scenarios in the LinkedTV project and through the analysis of the distinctive needs and demands of each scenario we point out the technical requirements from a user-side perspective. Subsequently we study methods for the automatic and semi-automatic decomposition of the audiovisual content in order to effectively support the annotation process. Considering that the multimedia content comprises of different types of information, i.e., visual, textual and audio, we report various methods for the analysis of these three different streams. Finally we present various annotation tools which could integrate the developed analysis results so as to effectively support users (video producers) in the semi-automatic linking of hypervideo content, and based on them we report on the initial progress in building the LinkedTV annotation tool. For each one of the different classes of techniques being discussed in the deliverable we present the evaluation results from the application of one such method of the literature to a dataset well-suited to the needs of the LinkedTV project, and we indicate the future technical requirements that should be addressed in order to achieve higher levels of performance (e.g., in terms of accuracy and time-efficiency), as necessary