The Effects of ICT Environment on Teachers’ Attitudes and Technology Integration in Japan and the U.S
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Hiroki Ishizuka; Taku Yamagishi; Michiko Kobayashi; Sarah Frederiksen; Kengo Sadaki; Yui Mukoyama; Kodai Kusano; LeAnne Jones
- Source
- Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Vol 12, Pp 029-043 (2013)
- Subject
- lcsh:T55.4-60.8
media_common.quotation_subject
lcsh:Technology
lcsh:Education (General)
Education
Cultural diversity
Perception
lcsh:Technology (General)
Pedagogy
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Mathematics education
Technology integration
lcsh:Industrial engineering. Management engineering
Cross-cultural
media_common
lcsh:T58.5-58.64
lcsh:T
lcsh:Information technology
International comparisons
Educational technology
Variety (cybernetics)
Information and Communications Technology
lcsh:T1-995
lcsh:L
lcsh:L7-991
Psychology
lcsh:Education
- Language
- ISSN
- 2165-316X
2165-3151
The present study analyzes the effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) environment on teachers’ attitude toward technology integration in Japanese and U.S. elementary schools. Teacher’s attitude plays an important role in influencing the effectiveness of ICT education from a variety of perspectives. A number of studies have been done regarding teachers’ attitude toward ICT, but there is very little research concerning international comparisons. The interest of observation in the present paper is the cross-cultural comparison between Japanese elementary school and U.S. elementary school teachers. The purpose of the paper is to identify the factors that affect teachers’ perception of ICT and how they differ between the two countries.