Researching the Wireless High School: Effects on Science Teaching and Implications for Professional Development

本研究调查了无线环境对高中科学的影响，使用高实施者的学校有目的的抽样。 将对五所学校进行调查，并将收集每一所学校的多种形式的广泛数据。 该项目采用深入的案例研究，以检查上下文因素（如技术实施计划，学校文化，教师专业发展的程度和类型和教师背景）和关键的互动，可能会影响科学教学实践中无线高中科学教室。 这项研究将产生一个基于证据和理论的专业发展模式，为专业开发人员、管理人员、政策制定者和教师提供信息。 这项研究将使私人侦探能够制定一个专业发展模式，以帮助学校在初始安装、部署和培训方面做出合理的选择;并帮助教师轻松访问数字资源，选择有助于实现其教学目标的资源，根据数字资源为丰富科学理解和内容所提供的附加价值有效评估数字资源的质量，制定教学策略，使学生能够与这些资源进行互动，以丰富课堂话语和互动，并制定策略，有效地使用数字资源，能够评估学生的工作。

This research study investigates the impact of the wireless environment on high school science using a purposeful sampling of schools with high implementers. Five schools will be examined and extensive data in multiple forms will be collected on each. The project uses in-depth case studies to examine context factors (e.g. technology implementation plans, school culture, extent and type of teacher professional development and teacher background) and critical interactions that may influence science instructional practice in wireless high school science classrooms. The study will result in an evidence-based and theoretically-grounded professional development model that will inform professional developers, administrators, policy-makers and teachers. The research will enable the PIs to develop a professional development model to help schools make reasonable choices about initial installation, deployment and training; and to help teachers to access digital resources with ease, select resources that will further their teaching goals, effectively evaluate the quality of a digital resource in terms of the additional value that it affords to enrich science understanding and content, develop pedagogical strategies to enable student interactivity with such resources to enrich classroom discourse and interaction, and develop strategies to use digital resources effectively in being able to assess student work.