Doing the Same Thing but with Pretty Colors: Teaching and Change in 1:1 Ipad Secondary Classrooms

This yearlong, multi-case qualitative study examined four secondary teachers who taught in a Midwestern, suburban 1:1 iPad high school. Participants taught various subjects and ranged in years of experience. The purpose of this study was to understand how teaching in 1:1 iPad classrooms changed how participants thought about or enacted their teaching. Cross-case analysis demonstrated that teachers enacted different types of change. Created as a result of this study, these change types are identified in the ACR [“acer”] Framework and have implications for inservice teacher learning and professional development.

Keywords: educational technology, one-to-one (1:1) technology, secondary education.