Tablets in Classrooms: Challenges for Establishing and Maintaining Social Order

• In Event: Classroom Management: Remote Learning, Professional Development, Teacher Bias, and Achievement

Abstract

By their acting and interacting teachers and students produce social orders which constitute contextual requirements for academic learning in classrooms. But what happens when events in classrooms are shaped by the use of tablet computers? Starting from an ecological perspective on classroom management, we examine changes that occur over time when tablet computers are used to teach different subjects. By generating video data on classroom interaction processes we employ microethnographical methods (a) to explore in which ways social orders are affected, transformed or challenged by the use of tablets and (b) to identify practices that teachers and students use to deal with (c) demands that they have to meet in order to produce social orders in various contexts.

Authors

• Matthias Herrle, University of Wuppertal

• Markus Hoffmann, University of Cologne

• Patricia Lauterbach, University of Wuppertal

• Matthias Proske, University of Cologne