eprintid: 10149776 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/97/76 datestamp: 2022-06-08 14:39:17 lastmod: 2022-06-08 14:39:17 status_changed: 2022-06-08 14:39:17 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Ibrahim, S creators_name: Vasalou, A creators_name: Benton, L title: Understanding the Situated Practices of School Technology Leaders in the Early Stages of Educational Technology Adoption ispublished: pub divisions: B14 divisions: J77 divisions: B16 divisions: UCL note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: School-driven technological innovation has the potential to positively impact on classroom practice, yet it can also be disrupted by incompatibilities between the existing school ecology and new educational technologies. To help mitigate this disruption a particular staff member often takes on a facilitative leadership role to champion new technology initiatives. However little is known about how this technology leader role impacts on the adoption of new technologies in the classroom. Taking a situated lens, we embarked on a multiple case study of four schools who were aiming to adopt a new literacy game in the classroom. Through interviews with technology leaders and fieldnotes from our site observations, we systematically analysed their actions and concerns over two academic terms. This highlighted an overwhelming concern with managing the material dimension of the technology, teacher agency and division of labour and mechanisms for communication and monitoring. Our findings raise important considerations for HCI researchers seeking to embed their technologies into practice alongside recommendations for supporting leaders tasked with coordinating this process. date: 2022-04 date_type: published publisher: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502120 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1960137 doi: 10.1145/3491102.3502120 isbn_13: 9781450391573 lyricists_name: Vasalou, Asimina lyricists_id: MVASA31 actors_name: Vasalou, Asimina actors_id: MVASA31 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pres_type: paper publication: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings event_title: CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems book_title: Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems citation: Ibrahim, S; Vasalou, A; Benton, L; (2022) Understanding the Situated Practices of School Technology Leaders in the Early Stages of Educational Technology Adoption. In: Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149776/1/chi22-298_Ibrahim.pdf