Tablet adoption with smart school website technology

Teachers play a key role in adoption of technologies for classroom use. This study surveyed teachers regarding their intention to use tablet technology to interact with students and other teachers through smart school websites technology. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) served as the theoretical framework for this study, which was then augmented with context-specific determinants of adoption that captured teachers' perceptions of the effects of technology on interactions with students and peers. The results showed no resistance among teachers with regard to trying different ways of working with tablets to achieve better learning, unlike other studies using the UTAUT constructs that have found negative reactions to implementing new technologies in the workplace. This is a crucial finding, since teacher appraisals affect the ways in which this technology can be employed to foster learning through technology facilitated interactions.