Research on Teachers’ Attitudes toward Their Children’s Utilization of Information Technology:An Analysis of Technology Integration from the Techers' Perspective

• Main Author: 陳素英
• Other Authors: 許惠美
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45676869132605508769

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 學習與數位科技學系 === 101 === This research study is aimed at discussing the attitudes of teachers of New Taipei City Jian-Kang Elementary School towards their children’s utilization of information technology in order to find out the factors affecting the attitudinal differences towards their utilization of information technology at work and their children’s utilization of information technology at home. In order to achieve these research objectives, the researcher administered a questionnaire titled Survey on Teachers’ Attitudes toward Their Children’s Utilization of Information Technology to the participants and used it as an instrument to collect data. Afterward, based upon the results of the questionnaire, three teachers were selected and served as the participants of interviews. Qualitative interview is the major method of data collection. The important conclusions of this research are as follow: 1. Questionnaires: (1) The overall average score of “Teachers’ attitudes toward technology integration”is 4.01, showing that most teachers’ attitudes toward technology integration are positive. (2) The overall average score of “Teachers’ attitudes toward their children’s utilizing information technology” is 3.56, lower than that of “Teachers’ attitudes toward technology integration”. (3) The scores given to “Teachers’ attitudes toward technology integration” and “Teachers’ attitudes toward their children’s utilization of information technology”present the biggest differences, with a mean value of 0.76. (4) As for “Attitudes toward control of children’s utilization of technology products”, the parents with younger children tend to give lower scores, which means more control is desired. However, with a standard deviation of 1.137, the item indicates that teachers are still holding different opinions on control regarding the ages of their children. (5) Teachers’ attitudes toward their children’s utilization of information technology are more concerned than assured. According to the questionnaire, the top five concerns are (starting from the most concerned): health and vision, technology addiction (or Internet addiction), delaying study, interpersonal relationship development, and spending too much money on information technology. 2. Interviews: (1) Echoing with the survey results of the questionnaire collected for this research, the teachers interviewed agree that information technology “brings advantages to teaching” and “brings convenience to daily life”, which reveals that information technology has exerted an imperceptible influence on teaching and presents a great leap in teachers’ recognition of information technology. (2) The reason why teachers are conservative about their children’s utilization of information technology is that they believe the development of information technology brings more negative effects than positive effects on their children. (3) The countermeasures taken by teachers who are conservative about children’s utilization of information technology at home are: instructing their children in deeds rather in words, teaching their children how to properly use information technology, and loosening control when their children reach a certain age. (4) The teaching profession is facing an invisible pressure net. The factors, including high moral standards, big work stress, together with high expectations of teachers’ children, affect teachers to adopt a prudent and conservative attitude toward their children’ utilization of information technology.