Case Study Proposal for #INF537

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As part of this capstone subject to the Master of Education program that I am in the process of completing, I need to complete a Case Study.  My proposal is presented below:

Area of Interest: Student Personal Epistemologies and Technology Practices

The Proposal: 

Topic: Student beliefs about knowledge and how these beliefs affect their uses of mobile technology for learning.

Draft Research Question: What are Year 9 students’ beliefs about knowledge and how do they think these beliefs influence their use of technology when learning in a Year 9 science classroom.

Description of project including information, learning, social or organisational needs, problems or concerns to be addressed.

Education is short of classrooms that permit students to engage with technology in ways that prepare them to use technology in the real world (Ertmer et al, 2012). Teachers beliefs about knowledge influence how they integrate technology into the classroom (Ertmer & Ottenberg-Leftwich, 2010).