Timpany, ClaireVanderschantz, Nicholas2011-09-182011-09-182011Timpany, C. & Vanderschantz, N. (2011). Learning outcome dependency on contemporary ICT in the New Zealand middle school classroom. In CHINZ '11, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, 4-5 July, Hamilton, New Zealand (pp. 65-72). New York, NY, USA: ACM.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5748Often studies of children's technology use in the classroom is internally focused and small scale. This study attempts a globalised exploratory overview of an entire New Zealand middle school to understand the technology usages across a range of curriculum and learning outcomes. Observations of the use of technology in the classroom during eight different lessons were conducted followed by structured-open-ended interviews. From our classroom observations and through teacher interviews, we have been able to identify three levels of the dependency of learning outcome on contemporary-ICT.application/pdfen© ACM, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHINZ '11 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2000756.2000765.computer scienceclassroom technologychildreninteractivity in learningICT uselearning outcomesConference Contribution10.1145/2000756.2000765