Teacher Pedagogical Belifes

The purpose of the article is to examine the relationship between teachers' pedagogical beliefs and their technology practices. The hope is that be gaining a better understanding of this complex relationship, educators might gain a greater appreciation for why more teachers are not using technology in ways advocated in the literature.

Ultimately, the goal in which this article is trying to get across, is to facilitate uses of technology that lead to increased student learning. It seems that more education and more technology has been put into place for teachers, but the use of high end technology is still quite low. The article seems to imply that this may be because of the teachers pedagogical beliefs. For example, if there is a teacher who has been teaching for a number of years and who is not used to using ICT's in their everyday teachings, even though they may be familiar with using ICT's they either dont feel confident or simply do not feel ICT's have value in the classroom. This article is trying to depict between who simply cannot be bothered integrating ICT's and who honestly doesn't believe they have an impact on student learning. So now the problem seems to be not only that there are not enough resources but that teachers do not feel comfortable using them in the classroom.

I strongly beleive that there should now be a way of showing current teachers that ICT's are valued in a classroom and in learning practices, and that using them should be compulsory to a certain extent.