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Using cloud-computing applications to support collaborative scientific inquiry: examining pre-service teachers’ perceived barriers towards integration

Posted on 16 Oct 2013 with 0 comments

Technology plays a crucial role in facilitating collaboration within the scientific community. Cloud-computing applications can be used to model such collaboration and support inquiry within the secondary science classroom. Little is known about pre-service teachers’ beliefs related to the envisioned use of this technology in their teaching. These beliefs may influence future integration. This study finds several first-order barriers, such as perceptions that these tools would take too much time to use.

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