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North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership / M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324 Integrating Technology into Education
Name:_Muhammet Talha Erer____Date: ___10-17-2015________________________
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INTRODUCTION
Research Questions (if research questions are not specifically mentioned, what is
the theoretical background or overarching theme):
1- How school admistrators should integrate ipads in a class environment to create an
effective teaching process?
2-how an electronic device such as ipad can be used for a student to learn about a class
as efficient as he/she can?

Purpose of the research: the purpose of research study is to determine if an ipad can
be integrated into the school system to improve both teaching and learning process for
teachers and students.

METHODOLOGY
What is the methodology for the research or approach used to understand the
issue? Provide information regarding the following:

Participants: Elementary and secondary school administrators

51 out of 120
Procedures: Training was designed based on feedback from participants and
delivered through an interactive webinar session. The training of school
administrators included topics intended to develop iPad skills and use certain
workflow, note-taking, calendar, productivity, file-sharing, remote-desktop,
presentation, and screen-sharing applications covered specifically from a
principals perspective. Additional resources reinforcing the topics covered in the
initial training session were provided later to school administrators in the form of
video and written tutorials for their convenience.

Data Collection Methods/Data Source: qualitative and quantitative results were

obtained from all participants during face to face interviewing process
Data Analysis: all collected data have been proved that if school administrators
use ipad efficiently and effectively for the classes they offer in their schools and
can succeed to integrate it into the classes, it may help students to gain the
information about the classes without losing their interest and patient to them.

RESULTS
Findings or Results (or main points of the article): The data analysis of this study is
categorized into five main groups: analysis of demographic and contextual data; impacts
of the training process on school administrators use of iPad and iPad applications;
impacts of the training process on school administrators beliefs regarding how teachers
should use iPads in the classroom; differences in participants responses by their
demographic and contextual data (gender, age, years of experience in school
administration and education, highest degree attained, school classification,and school
size); and evaluation of training process.

DISCUSSIONS
Conclusions/Implications (for your profession): The need for technology leadership
in K12 schools is supported by several studies (Anderson & Dexter, 2005; Davies,
2010; Fletcher, 2009;Gosmire & Grady, 2007; Leonard & Leonard, 2006). School
administrators play a vital role in the implementation of new technologies, and they are
widely regarded as the instructional leaders of their schools (Dawson & Rakes, 2003;
Lashway, 2002; McLeod, 2008). Since school administrators are the key facilitators in
implementing new technologies in their schools, training for this group should be a
priority (Holland & Moore-Steward, 2000). The challenge, as schools increasingly adopt
iPads (Crichton et al., 2011; Dogan,2012; Murphy, 2011), is in implementing and creating
instructional goals for their use.
REFLECTIONS
Students Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your
school/work): integrating technological devices such as ipad iphones laptops to a class

environment can definitely hold students interest and understanding much longer time
than having a regular class setup. Using an ipad not only makes a class more
interesting, also it helps a student to meet future requirements for any kind of work
environment with technology use.

References;
DOGAN, B., & ALMUS, K. (2014). School Administrators Use of iPads: Impact of
Training and Attitudes Toward School Use. Computers in the Schools: Interdisciplinary
Journal of Practice, Theory, and Applied Research.