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The Role of Technology in the Development of Teachers’ Professional Learning Communities
Hansa Sinha; Mary Beth Rosson; John Carroll
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2127–2131
Due to increasing access to internet in the schools as well as homes of school teachers, information technology is breaking down the barriers of time and space. This heralds a great opportunity for teachers to overcome their traditional isolation...
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A Diagnostic Method for Analysis of Teachers’ Technology Education
Hansa Sinha; Mary Beth Rosson; John Carroll
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1283–1290
This paper reports on findings from a qualitative research study that investigated the professional development practices of public high school teachers as they learn how to use information technology. In this study, the Activity Theory framework...
Topics: Workforce Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Orientation of Undergraduates toward Careers in the Computer and Information Sciences: Gender, Self-Efficacy and Social Support
Mary Beth Rosson; John M. Carroll; Hansa Sinha
ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (October 2011)
Researchers have been working to understand the factors that may be contributing to low rates of participation by women and other minorities in the computer and information sciences (CIS). We describe a multivariate investigation of male and female...
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Making use visible: an activity oriented study of information technology use among high school teachers
Hansa Sinha; Mary Beth Rosson; Shawn Clark; John Carroll
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3067–3074
Abstract: This article reports on findings from a qualitative research study that investigated the use of information technology among high school teachers. In this particular paper the focus is on teachers’ activities outside of the classroom. This ...
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Toward a Professional Development Community for Teachers
Hansa Sinha; Mary Beth Rosson; John Carroll; Honglu Du
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2390–2397
Abstract: The dawn of computer networks have brought forth extensive experimentation in bring-ing together otherwise isolated communities of practice across geographic boundaries. Although teachers in a school are co-located they are traditionally...
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wConnect: Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community
Mary Beth Rosson; Hansa Sinha; Dejin Zhao; John Carroll; Craig Ganoe; Jan Mahar
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 87–97
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS). Our approach is explicitly participatory: we...