Does Use of ICT-Based Teaching Encourage Innovative Interactions in the Classroom? Presentation of the CLI-O: Class Learning Interactions – Observation Tool

Abstract

This article presents a new classroom observations analysis tool (CLI-O: Class Learning Interactions -Observation tool). The CLI-O tool enables the collection of various data regarding the use of ICT tools, organization of learning, and teacher-student interactions in the lesson. Several examples demonstrating the use of CLI-O and some preliminary findings derived from this tool are presented. CLI-O was developed in order to answer the question: Is learning in an ICT-based environment characterized by a unique pedagogy expressed, for example, by student-centered pedagogy while the teacher serves as a guide who mediates learning using a variety of technological tools? For example, in lessons observed and analyzed by CLI-O in the present study, a large part of the learning was found to be whole class learning, mainly frontal learning, and the teacher was at the focus of the lesson. CLI-O supplies a systematic description of classroom processes and enables teachers, teacher educators, and researchers to examine the implementation of ICT in teaching and learning and perceive it as a gradual ongoing process of building a new pedagogy tailored to the needs of the 21 st century.

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“…The use of dynamic geometry systems (DGS) such as Cabri and Geometers Sketchpad (GSP), among others, appear to offer new perspectives on geometry in the school setting, in addition to more advanced levels by clearly facilitating the experimentation and exploration of geometrical formations and linkages (Iji et al, 2018 ). In addition to the ability to actively enhance teaching, new aspects of ICT innovations have emerged in mathematics education including the Class Learning Interactions – Observation (CLIO) tools, which allow all interactions that occur within the classroom to be systematically observed and monitored (Manny-Ikan et al, 2013 ).…”