The purpose of this research was to find whether the personal factors age, ICT attitude and feeling of personal competence affect the educational ICT use of Dutch teachers at primary schools in the...Show moreThe purpose of this research was to find whether the personal factors age, ICT attitude and feeling of personal competence affect the educational ICT use of Dutch teachers at primary schools in the Netherlands. Another goal was to find how those teachers exactly use ICT during their workday. By using questionnaires of 209 Dutch teachers and semi-structured interviews with ten of them, it became clear that young teachers held a more positive attitude towards ICT related developments in their classrooms than older teachers, because they had a more positive ICT attitude and a greater feeling of personal competence than their older colleagues. Old teachers view the possibility of creating a more personalized educational sphere for every child as a positive result of the increasing level of ICT use in the classrooms, but they also fear that an increased use of ICT eventually will lead to less social interaction in the classrooms. Since almost all schools already have invested in Smartboards, computers and laptops, nearly all teachers make use of digital learning methods to educate their students.Show less
