Taking the Tablets: Has the Long Predicted Revolution in Teaching and Learning Finally Arrived?

Abstract

Keeping up to date in education innovation is not an easy option for the classroom practitioner. In particular, digital technologies present a challenge because they are expensive to implement; teachers require technical training; and, professional development programmes that concentrate on pedagogy and impact are not always available. This chapter explores the ways in which the MirandaNet Fellowship ‘community of practice’ tackled the implementation of personal tablets in schools through reading members’ studies, international online discussion and practice based professional development projects in the classroom that aimed to build policy and strategies on the basis of teachers’ and pupils’ evidence.