Ertmer Article

I really enjoyed reading this article. Having a psychology background, it was really cool to see how they were trying to break down how different teachers teach and their beliefs about teaching. On pg. 31, he refers to a Rokeach study and he quotes that teacher's beliefs are central to their individual identity. Thus, teachers teach based on past experiences whether it be when they were in school, this is how their teacher taught this concept or my teacher did it this way and I didn't learn the concept well. The same goes for technology integration. If teachers had negative experiences with technology in the past, they are going to be less likely to engage technology in their own classrooms. But as the law mandates, they have to integrate it somehow but I am sure that they may not enjoy doing it. But for teachers that have had positive experiences with technology in the classroom, they will embrace it with open arms. Whatever the case, the teacher chooses to teacher his or her classroom in a certain manner because they believe that it had success especially in their personal experiences so they will try to give those positive experiences to their students as well.