Share Paper: Knowledge, User Perceptions, and Ecological Systems Perspective as a Comprehensive Framework for Studying Technology Use in a Complex Educational Environment

  1. Dowayne Davis, The Newark Opportunity Youth Network, Inc., United States

Abstract: Use and adoption of educational technology in the classroom can have a significant impact on financial investment for a school as well as a startup educational technology company. Limited research suggests that there is a gap in compressive and practical understanding of how new educational technologies are designed and marketed to impact use and adoption by school decision-makers and teachers in public K-12 schools. This paper posits that a study that uses the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), technology acceptance model, and ecological systems theoretical concept as a theoretical framework, can provide a comprehensive foundation to analyze the complexity of ...