The document discusses a research study exploring how teachers use mobile technology personally and professionally. A survey will be developed and administered to teachers using iPods in the classroom to understand their comfort levels with different devices and how this relates to integrating technology into lessons. The survey will draw from other studies and be validated using frameworks analyzing technical skills, social aspects, and epistemological beliefs to potentially predict how personal device use relates to classroom instruction.

1. Mobile Technology Teacher Use Out of and In Classroom

2. Research Problem Computer ratios in schools dropping. 1:1 a goal in many areas. Small mobile devices being used in many places. Teacher pedagogical style dictates how tech is used in classrooms (Weston & Bain 2010 and others)

3. Research Question Formulation Schools are introducing (or allowing) mobile technology into classrooms. Teachers are still the ‘gate keepers’ of use. (Bebel & Kay 2009) How do teachers use mobile technology in their personal lives? How does mobile technology get integrated into classroom practice?

4. Theoretical Framework Fini (2009) argued that users choice of tools depend on personal preference and comfort in an online class setting. Does this hold true for choice and use of mobile devices for teachers in classrooms? Determining teachers comfort and skill level with personal tools may indicate how they chose to integrate in classroom

5. Evidence and Collection Instrument to collect data being developed. Survey that will ask about teachers use of mobile devices in personal use and in classroom use. Data gathering in a school with iPods in use in classroom as a pilot project. Instrument validation.

6. Indicators and Framework Communicational Order Informational Order Epistemological Order Technical Order Frequency of use Confidence Social Order Desjardins, 2001, 2010

7. Survey Instrument Questions to address mobile use. What devices teachers have. How they use them. Frequency and Confidence. How they are used in classrooms. Will be combination of several other surveys. (Pew 2010, Milken Exchange, Fini, 2009)

8. Summary Does teachers personal use of mobile technology predict classroom use? May be able to draw some ideas from the data and look for connections. Instrument validation based on frameworks will allow it to be used in other studies.