Abstract:
The purpose of this study are 1) to investigate the readiness of using tablet in grade 1 classrooms for supporting tablet education of teachers and parents in three aspects: skills and abilities of using tablets, opinions on students' learning with tablets and readiness of management for supporting students' education. 2) to compare teachers' readiness with their demographics. 3) to compare parents' readiness. 4) to design a framework and guidelines tranining for improving teachers and parents' readiness on tablet use. The participants are 110 teachers and 341 parents of grade 1 students in year 2012 of Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The questionnaires consisted of five parts by using the check lists, the basis of five-point Likert scale and an open-ended question. The t-Test, ANOVA and post hoc comparison tests were used in analyzing the data. This study indicates that readiness of teachers and parents are at moderate and high levels, respectively. Overall, there is a significant difference between genders for teachers' readiness. Male teachers are found to have higher performances than female. However, there is no significant difference among education level for teachers' readiness as well as occupation for parents' readiness. From the post hoc comparsion, it found that parents' readiness of tablet suggestion is significant difference between genders and ages.