Nature of the Study Teachers' general attitude toward technology plays a critical role in adopting a set method for determining how to teach with wireless laptops (Kervin & Mantei, 2010). Alternatively, how teachers perceive the technology will hypothesize as a determining factor of the nature of this quantitative, pre-experimental study. This study will examine why teachers do not routinely and effectively use available technology such as wireless laptops in K-12 classrooms. To take full advantage of technology while reducing possible inconveniences, it is necessary to match technology to learning objectives ( Lee, 2010 ). The researcher will use a pre-experimental quantitative study, involving a web-based, five-point Likert scale cross-sectional survey, entitled Technology Attitude Scale (TAS). The TAS will be administered to collect data during this study. Next, the TAS questionnaire is an adapted version of Swan and Dixon's (2006) model. The results of the TAS will be analyzed using an experimental and non-experimental sample to establish teachers' attitudes towards wireless technology in teaching practice. The survey provides and demonstrates reliability of .92 and has demonstrated proven validity tested through statistical analysis. Swan and Dixon (2006) used TAS to examine any correlation between teachers' attitudes toward technology and the use of that technology in their study. In this study, a convenience sample rather than a random sample of teachers in a rural southeast Georgia school district will be used because teachers are both accessible and willing to participate. Accessibility and willingness to participate are characteristics of a convenience sample (Lee... ... middle of paper ...... attitudes, social impact, specific negative cognitions or self-critical self-talk during actual use of the computer or when considering future computer use (Ursavas & Karal, 2009). Theory-driven: a massive conventional teaching approaches for incorporating traditional teaching and learning approaches (Stewart et al., 2009). : devices that use electromagnetic waves rather than terrestrial cables to carry a communication signal, examples are laptops, clickers, cell phones, etc. iPods and other similar mobile devices, including printers and desktops that operate via wireless signals (Skevakis, 2010, rather than via hardware technology).Wireless technology: output tools such as laptops, clickers, cell phones, iPods and other similar mobile devices, including printers and desktops that work via wireless modules (Skevakis, 2010).
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