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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION: A RESEARCH-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Education By TORI ROSE FAULDER Middle Childhood Education, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 2005 2011 Cedarville University iii ABSTRACT Faulder, Tori R. , Education Department, Cedarville University, 2011. TECHNOLOGY Integration: A RESEARCH-BASED Professional Development Program This RESEARCH-BASED thesis project explains the governmental acts and policies, investors, and other stakeholders who have worked to promote, question, and explore the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the classroom. research suggests that best-practice ICT integration requires using ICT alongside constructivist pedagogy. However, ICT integration is a complex phenomenon involving a significant number of factors. Teachers have often taken the blame for a failure to effectively integrate ICT in their classrooms due to their integral role in effective integration.
Although research would suggest that teachers are increasingly using technology in their daily lives and for other professional endeavors, it also supports the claim that ICT use for instructional purposes is limited (Bebell, et. al., 2004). Recent research identifies that this lack of integration is the result of a failure to
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