Huckaby, M. Francyne2017-08-292017-08-2920172017https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/20539This study examines teachers beliefs, theories, and assumptions about teaching with technology and provides a framework for understanding how discourse within professional communities as well as larger institutional contexts shape educators understandings about technologically mediated instruction. Through an examination of the dialectical interactions among a group of four English educators, this microethnographic discourse analysis illuminates the ways in which dialogic engagement in a collegial community shaped the participants pedagogical decisions and promoted a more democratic approach to teaching with technology. Engaging in reflective dialogue with colleagues encouraged the teachers to reevaluate their deeply held assumptions about internetworked technologies while also supporting a critical interrogation of their practice over time. The data indicate that participation in a learning community precipitated changes in the teachers beliefs about technology, and pedagogy more broadly. It also supported more productive, socioculturally relevant literacy instruction in the teachers classrooms. By highlighting the professional knowledge that teachers generated in a small group setting while also attending to the ways in which larger social, cultural, and institutional contexts affected these knowledge-building experiences, this study underscores the ideological dimension of teaching with technology. It also emphasizes the collective capacity of practitioners to play a central role in educational transformation by identifying a framework for shared learning that empowers teachers to honor authentic literacy practices across multiple modes of representation, reflectively and productively.1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) :Format: OnlineengEmbargoed until July 26, 2019: Texas Christian University.No search engine accessInternet in education.Educational technology.Group work in education.Teachers Training of.Educational change.Text