The intense use of digital media among children and adolescents raises concerns about online risks. In response, digital literacy frameworks for formal education usually include a set of protective skills. Considering that teachers have the responsibility to implement such frameworks, this study investigates factors associated with teachers' practices of fostering students' digital protective s…
This study investigated the factors that impact in-service teachers' intention to use technology (n=379), using multiple-indicator, multiple cause (MIMIC)modeling. In this study, in-service teachers' intention to use technology was hypothesized to be impacted by four factors: (1) age, (2) years of teaching service, (3) years of computer use, and (4) hours of daily computer use. Using the struct…
In this article, the need for teacher education programmes to offer support for the development of pre-service teacher agency is discussed in order to enable prospective teachers to operate agentically in their professional contexts. Using Priestley et al.'s (2015) ecological framework for teacher agency, I reflect on the extent to which I achieve this goal in my own teacher education context a…
The purpose of this study is to determine ways to facilitate teachers' uses of instructional technology. First, we provide a review of criteria for selecting useful computer resources for instructional purposes. Secondly, we describe results from a survey that addresses teachers' beliefs about technology, their technological resources, and support for the use of instructional technology in thef…
This study explores pre-service teachers 'experiences integrating SMART Board technology into their teaching practice. The results suggest that pre-service teachers found the technology mentoring process to be useful in preparing them to integrate instructional technology into their lessons. The pre-service teachers developed high interest in integrating SMART board technology within their own …
This study examined if professional development needs of digital natives and immigrant teachers differed for technology integration in a Chinese education setting. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected from 500 teachers at six schools in China. The digital native teachers and immigrant teachers were compared in terms of their different technology use behaviors and integration skills. …
This study aimed at Identifying Current situation of school journalism in Hadramout coastal area secondary schools. (556) subjects were randomly selected,(206) of them were teachers and (350) students. The study used aquestionnaire consisted of (35) item, with four dimensions. Face validity was verified through acomette of experts and alpha Chronbach coefficient of the tool was (0.94). T-test a…
The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors that either hinder or contribute to teachers' technology use in the elementary schools of Turkey. The data was collected through interviews, observations, document analyses and a survey. The results identified six major barriers to teachers using technology based on the teachers' responses. They are (a) limitations of physical settings, …
Exploring the students' information, communication technology (ICT) profile and how it may affect their attitudes towards the Egyptian university digital library (EUDL) and the role of the digital library in the educational and research activities in faculties of nursing and education in Egypt is the main concern of this study. A questionnaire was distributed to students in the faculties of Nur…
There has been a rapid development in the field of educational technology during the past decade and this development has increased the role of technology in every s life. These developments in technology have also affected the Education (Zengin and Aksu, 2017). In present days, utilization of technology in English language classrooms can play an important role to implement this new educatio…