Activity Centred Professional Development and Teachers' Take-Up of ICT

Rizzo, A.

This paper is based on my PhD studies on effective ways to encourage senior secondary school teachers in a traditional independent school in Australia, to take up and use ICT in pedagogically sound ways. Poor professional development strategies and events have been blamed for the apparent lack of impact that computers have made on classroom practices to date. A large part of the blame has been placed on the lack of a sound learning theory to underpin teachers� professional development with ICT, which can also serve as a sound framework for teachers to use in class with their own students.

Cite as: Rizzo, A. (2003). Activity Centred Professional Development and Teachers' Take-Up of ICT. In Proc. ICT and the Teacher of the Future - Selected Papers from the International Federation for Information Processing Working Groups 3.1 and 3.3 Working Conference, Melbourne, Australia. CRPIT, 23. McDougall, A., Murnane, J. S., Stacey, C. and Dowling, C., Eds. ACS. 105-108.

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