Article review
The article is “Technology and Early Childhood Education: A Technology
integration Professional Development Model for Practicing Teachers”
written by Jared Keengwe & Grace Onchwari.
By Roqayah
A short summary of the article.
“Despite the promise of
technology in education, many
practicing teachers are facing with
multiple challenges of effective
integrations technology into their
classroom instructions.” by
Keengwe, J & Onchwari, G.
The barriers of technology integration into classroom
instruction:
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Lack of personal familiarity with technology.
Lack of technical support.
Lack of fund.
Lack of connection between technology training and the curriculum.
Lack of time.
Some solutions and recommendations that the authors offer to
overcome the barriers:
• Participating in sessions to help teacher to effectively
integrating technology in their classroom instruction.
• Install new technology tools that support new educational
software.
My reflection
It is very important that teachers receive the support they need to
overcome the barriers of integration technology in their classroom
instructional.
But, It is not necessary that all these solutions and strategies would
work in all environments because every environment is different and
each environment needs to have difference mixt of solutions and
strategies.
So, Administrators should consider the barriers highlighted as well as
challenges that may be unique to their own environment, Also, they
should consider strategies to address these challenges based on their
available resources.
Reference
• Keengwe, Jared , and Grace Onchwari. "technology and early childhood
education: a technology integration professional development for practicing
teachers.” Early Childhood Educe 37 (2009): 209-218. Print.