For this blog post I used google scholar to find Tracing Teachers’ Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture. By Mark Windschitl and Kurt Sahl. These authors tracked how multiple middle school teachers evolved their teaching techniques to include laptop programs. They watched how they integrated them over time and how it affected the productivity of the classroom. The topic was technology in the classroom. This being the lead into the question, as teachers integrate laptop usage into the classroom, how does that change the beliefs, social dynamics, and culture in the classroom. To conduct this research they used and ethnographic approach to examine the changes over time. I personally believe this be an amazing experiment and type of research. They took a very direct and personal approach living the lives of the people they are looking at through ethnography. I would advise my peers to look into people doing ethnographic work because of the interesting things that you may find out while eon the inside.

Windschitl, Mark, and Kurt Sahl. “Tracing Teachers’ Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture.” American Educational Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, 2002, pp. 165–205., doi:10.3102/00028312039001165.