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Welcome to our wiki! It shares the results of our action research project.

__Introduction:__

We are a grade 1 teacher and a teacher-librarian at a public elementary school in Guelph. We wanted to create a project to investigate and celebrate the informed and effective use of technology in primary classes. In our experience, we have seen that many teachers of primary students are nervous about using technology with their classes; they may be concerned about the students' ability to use the technology properly, and/or they may be unsure about whether the technology would add anything important to their teaching. After much discussion, we decided on a particular type of software to use for our action research and a specific question to guide that research. Our question is:

How will primary students' use of Pixie impact their pride in ownership and quality of work?

We chose to focus on these criteria because we felt that technology has real potential for enabling students to create high-quality work of which they can be proud. A number of the students in our focus class struggle with creating output using pen and paper; they sometimes show resistance to finishing written tasks, express displeasure with their results, and/or submit work that is below grade expectations. For our action research, we wanted to explore whether Pixie might help these students, as well as all of the rest of our students, to be successful and proud of their work.