Mistaking the Tool for the Outcome: Using Activity System Theory to understand the Complexity of Teacher Technophobia

Margaret Lloyd; Peter Albion

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1480–1487

The blame for the reputed failure of schools to embrace information and communication technologies (ICT) and the relegation of new technologies to the periphery of school life is frequently placed directly on the technophobic teacher. In this paper, ...

Topics: Teachers, Information Communication Technologies, Schools

Altered Geometry: A New Angle on Teacher Technophobia

Margaret Lloyd; Peter Albion

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 65–84

Teacher technophobia is analyzed using an activity systems framework and we contend that technophobic teachers make the mistake of confusing and collapsing the tool into the object thereby figuratively altering the geometry of the classic activity...

Teaching Teachers for the Future (TTF) Project TPACK Survey: Summary of the Key Findings

Glenn Finger; Romina Jamieson-Proctor; Rob Cavanagh; Peter Albion; Peter Grimbeek; Trevor Bond; Robert Fitzgerald; Geoff Romeo; Margaret Lloyd

Australian Educational Computing Vol. 27, No. 3 (2013) pp. 13–25

This paper presents a summary of the key findings of the TTF TPACK Survey developed and administered for the Teaching the Teachers for the Future (TTF) Project implemented in 2011. The TTF Project, funded by an Australian Government ICT Innovation...