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General research theme: "Barriers to Technology Implementation in Education". Each participant working on a specific project within this theme.
--Allows the group to share time and energy while researching and reviewing the literature. --Promotes a Seminar approach as we explore an area of common interest together.

Specific Topic areas (notes from 11/16 meeting):
Students: please jump in here and edit the descriptions if any of this isn't quite right.


 * Descriptions of potential case study projects:**

Theme: Is "adjusting your expectation" an important factor in succeeding with educational technology implementations. Research question topic: What were your expectations of a new tech implementation? How successful is it? Study type: repetitive case study. Essay prompt and response. Theme analysis. Case: Individual teacher in a university setting. Unit of Analysis: mention of satisfaction; mention of expectation.
 * Tom:**

Theme: What makes a teacher a "power user" Research question topic: To what extent does professional development/pre-service training influence the likelihood of technology adoption. Study type: repetitive case study. Case: Individual teacher in elementary setting (focus on a group of power users?) Unit of Analysis: mention of an example of technology use. mention of type of training that supported a mentioned technology use.
 * Leah:**

Theme: What makes teachers __reluctant__ to incorprate technology into the class lessons?* Research question topic: "How can you be a teacher and not be an advocate for technology in education? There must be reasons" Study type: repetitive case study. Case: Individual teacher who is not not demonstrating a lot of technology use. Unit of Analysis: mention of a reason that technology is not being used or a situation where technology was not successful.
 * Amy:**


 * Updated by Amy

Theme: There is a new generation of teacher entering service presently who has always lived with technology, and who shares this commonality with his/her students. Are in-service and pre-service training programs overdue for an update? Research question topic: Have technology training needs changed in the last 6-8 years? What are your training needs? Do trainers understand your needs? Study type: repetitive case study. Case: Individual teacher who is under the age of 30 (cutoff age tbd by surveying available population). Unit of Analysis: mention of a bona fide training "need"; mention of training situation that served a real need; mention of needless/inappropriate/obsolete training.
 * Ryan:**