"This yearlong, multi-case qualitative study examined the experiences of four secondary teachers who taught in a school where each student had an iPad tablet computer (1:1 iPad). The teachers taught four different subjects (i.e., English Language Arts (ELA), Social Studies, Spanish, and Chemistry). They ranged from 8 to 30 years of teaching experience. Using classroom observation, interview, and survey data, the purpose of this study was to (a) understand how teaching in 1:1 iPad classrooms changed, in any ways, how these secondary teachers thought about or enacted their teaching and (b) to identify the funds of knowledge upon which they drew when they planned and taught in their 1:1 iPad classrooms. Looking across these four cases provided multiple examples of the ways in which these different content area teachers enacted change and the funds of knowledge they used to plan and teach... " -- Abstract.
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