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It is useful to think of information technology as representing a cluster of educational ideas which may or may not challenge existing practices. How teachers respond to those challenges constitutes the potential for improvement.
Superficial accommodation to technology is everywhere evident and reported, but what are the deeper implications for teachers of particular challenges posed by IT to how subjects are construed and taught? This paper will consider research which illuminates increasingly deeper concerns of teachers about IT and the classroom ethos.
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Olson, J. (1995). Classroom ethos and the concerns of the teacher. In: Watson, D., Tinsley, D. (eds) Integrating Information Technology into Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34842-1_6
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