Reflection as a Critical Component of the Technology Adoption Process
By: Koszalka, Tiffany A
Summarized by
Suhail Naaman

Introduction:
Today’s educational technology training focuses on only how to operate the equipment. But there should be a reflection component that is added to the professional development program which helps educators attend to the cases beyond skills development and move toward educational technology adoption.

Adoption of Innovation:
The educator has to form an attitude towards the behavioral intent to pursue or reject the innovation. And this begins when the individuals learns of the innovation.
Interaction, successful practice with an innovation, and careful reflection about new situations and outcomes will make a good base for adopting technologies.

An Approach to Prompting Reflection:
Structured, short, open-ended questions help educators move through the stages of adoption. “Educators pay more attention to strategies of inquiring about their reasoning and develop greater abilities to enhance teaching and learning through the innovation” Koszalka (2003).

Conclusion:
The most successful development sessions support educators in a cyclical reflective process to help them specify for themselves the relationship between the theoretical benefits of an innovation and successful practice.
Reflections help educators also to integrate technology strategies that lend themselves to the configuration of the classroom.

Reference:
Koszalka, Tiffany A (2003). Reflection as a Critical Component of the Technology Adoption Process