Mr. Keith Johnston
Assistant Professor
Education
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Keith Johnston lectures in the area of ICTs in education. He is currently Co-ordinator of the PG Certificate in 21st Century Teaching and Learning and teaches courses in ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies) in Education as part of the Professional Master in Education and the Master in Education programme. His main research interests are the development and implementation of ICT policy in primary and post-primary education, and in the use of ICTs to support teaching and learning at these levels. He is also interested in using ICTs to support teacher professional development at both pre-service and in-service, and in teacher professional development generally. Recent research foci have included the Bridge21 model of learning in the context of proposed Junior Cycle reforms, as well as the use of tablet pc's and interactive whiteboards in educational contexts. Some emergent research foci include mobile learning via smartphone applications, social networking in educational contexts and the use of personal response systems.
Research Interest
computer Education
Publications
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Keith Johnston, Damian Murchan and Andrew Loxley, The Role and Impact of the Regional Curriculum Support Service in Irish Primary Education, Irish Educational Studies, 26, (3), 2007, p219 - 239
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Damian Murchan, Andrew Loxley and Keith Johnston, Aligning System, Teacher and Student Needs: Towards a Coherent Framework for Continuing Professional Development for Teachers in the Republic of Ireland, European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Ghent, September, 2007
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Murchan, D., Loxley, A. & Johnston, K. , Policy Drivers and Negotiated Decision-Making in a National Professional Development Initiative, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 13 - 17 April, 2009
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Johnston, K.; Conneely, C.; Murchan, D.; Tangney, B., Enacting Key Skills-based Curricula in Secondary Education: Lessons from a Technology-mediated, Group-based Learning Initiative , The European Conference on Educational Research 2012, Cadiz, 18-21 September 2012
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Murchan, D., Johnston, K., From Brussels to Belmullet: Policy and situational factors influencing the introduction of interactive whiteboards into primary classrooms in Ireland , Educational Studies Association of Ireland 2012, Cork, 29-31 March 2012
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Johnston, K., Conneely, C., Murchan, D. & Tangney, B., Enacting key skills-based curricula in secondary education: Lessons from a technology-mediated, group-based learning initiative, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 24, (4), 2015, p423 - 442
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Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Johnston, K. & Oldham. E., Professional Use of Technology on School Placement - an Irish study., Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 , Las Vegas, March 2-6 2015, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2015, pp2040 - 2047
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Copeland, C. & Johnston, K, A Case Study of Blended Learning in Senior Cycle Economics, Technology, Education and Development Conference, Madrid, 2nd-4th March 2015, edited by Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez, I. Candel Torres , 2015, pp4181 - 4191
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ICT and School Improvement: The OECD/CERI Study Revisited in, editor(s)Butler, D., Marshall, K. and M. Leahy , Shaping the future - How Technology Can Lead to Educational Transformation , Dublin, Liffey Press, 2015, pp210 - 234
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Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Johnston, K. & Oldham. E., , Use of Technology by Pre-Service Teachers on School Placement - An Irish Perspective, International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, 6-8th March, edited by L. Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez, I. Candel Torres , 2017, pp1345 - 1354
