![Overview
Goal
Two Teacher Groups
Grades: K-5 & 6-12
SMART provided
Participant Gratuities [50$ Amazon Gift Card]
Access to pre-screened participants
To investigate how grade school teachers
present digital content in their
classrooms.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/smartuserresearchpresentation-180308022045/85/Smart-user-research-presentation-2-320.jpg)
Smart user research presentation
- 1. HCDE 517 Usability Studies An exploratory study of technology usage in the classroom Research Team: Alanté Fields, Pierre Delcourt, Swetha Ramaswamy Client: Serena Hillman Senior UX Researcher, SMART Technologies
- 2. Overview Goal Two Teacher Groups Grades: K-5 & 6-12 SMART provided Participant Gratuities [50$ Amazon Gift Card] Access to pre-screened participants To investigate how grade school teachers present digital content in their classrooms.
- 3. Methods and Procedures Participants 6 - K-5 teachers 3 - 6-12 teachers Location Remote video interviews Methods Semi-structured interviews, Classroom Collage, and Competitive Analysis Data Mostly qualitative with some quantitative
- 4. The Setup
- 6. Findings: Current Technology 6/9 Teachers use the SMART Board Teachers who have a SMART Board also use the SMART Notebook software 4/6 Teachers have 1 tablet/laptop per student 3/9 Teachers use Google Classroom 7/9
- 9. Findings: Behavior 5/9 Teachers hide internet searches from students Teachers edit presentation content on the fly. 6/9 Teachers encourage students to interact with presentations. 8/9
- 12. SMART Learning Suite Google Suite for Education Cost of technology - Annual subscription $129* - SMART Board: $800-$5,000** - Free - Chromebook: starts at $199 Integration with other software and hardware - Mostly. - SMART Notebook does not work on chromebooks. - Teachers/students must use SMART amp.*** - Yes. - Can be accessed through a browser (used on Chromebooks) - No need for additional software. Ease of Access to training - Online training available, but hard to find/navigate to. - SMART Certified Trainers not available in all states. - Hard to find Training Centers. - Not very active community forum (lots of questions, not a lot answers) - Easy to find Online Training Center with a myriad of courses and certification options. - Regional Google Educator Groups - Very active Google for Education Forums Competitive Analysis- SMART vs Google *prices vary **does not include installation costs *** without full functionality
- 14. Recommendations
- 15. QUESTIONS?
- 16. THANK YOU! :)