A student voice researcher’s experience with technology-based instruction in elementary teacher education

This paper reflects the author’s experience utilizing technology to raise student voice in elementary teacher education from an insider’s perspective, exploring technology-based instruction and its implications. The findings are as follow: First, as a student voice researcher, I explored various methods to respect student voice in my classroom and selected technology featuring real-time interaction between everyone in the classroom during the instruction. Second, I experienced the individual student’s learning can be transformed into collective learning when technology was incorporated. Third, as the semester progressed, I encountered the limitations of the chosen technology, yet was able to overcome them by focusing on my purpose of fostering student voice. This study aims to contribute to future discourse on technology-based instruction, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the purposes of using technology in education rather than merely its methodological aspects.