Aaron J Kempf
Fieldwork 411
Major Hodde
Due April 2nd

Investigation into a Second Attempt at the Re-introduction of Tablets

Good morning Casey! After you reached out inquiring about some advice regarding teaching inspiration, I took it upon myself to find some scholarly sources that you’d be able to utilize. After some research, I found an incredible article regarding the re-introduction of tablets within an educational environment. What I found unique about the article is that it was not the students performances being measured within the article. Rather, it was the teachers opinions of the tablets use that were gauged to measure how important tablet use was. The methods used for conducting the research were the qualitative method with quantitative insight. By the end of the research, the findings produced results conveying the idea that tablets themselves are not what stipulates learning within a classroom. It is the teacher’s knowledge of how to utilize the tablets that brought about the most effective learning for students.The study was conducted in 1st and 2nd grade classrooms and was implemented because of today’s 21st century need for employees well rounded in all educational areas, specifically technology. many of the skills that employers search for are as listed – students need to have seven survival skills namely: critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurialism, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and finally curiosity and imagination. Within the eyes of researchers, the implementation of tablets incapsulate many of these skills and are able to give a well rounded idea as to whether students are maximizing each of these traits. Unfortunately I did find one flaw within the testing, and this would be the fact that out of the 23 patrons surveyed within the research, an astounding 96% were female. Overall, the results showed that of 23 surveyed teachers, only 1 found that the tablets were “trouble” being that students had trouble following directions. Being a class full of 1st and 2nd graders, I like these odds! I enjoyed reading about this experiment and think that there is a lot we can take and apply to our teaching at the local highschool. I hope this was helpful!