Teachers' and Students' Perspectives on Good Teaching Using Technology in Elementary Classrooms

This article describes good teaching with technology from both teachers' and students' perspectives through analyzing two distinctive cases of teaching practices with technology in K-12 settings. Data was generated from teacher interviews, classroom observation, student interviews, and student reflection journals. From the analysis of these data, the authors identified four categories of behavior that were considered emblematic of good teaching with technology: deliberate instructional design, enhanced engagement, adaptive instruction, and a respectful learning environment. In addition, while teachers restructured the curriculum and integrated technologies in a way that was more meaningful for students, teachers' beliefs were embedded in their approaches towards instructional design and teaching practices, which resulted in the seamless integration of technology with sound pedagogy in a content-specific way. The results of the study provided practical guidelines for good teaching with technology and implications on what role technology should take in teaching practices.