David is interested in researching in developing students’ digital literacy in the English class. James’ thoughts are the following:
First, David’s research will be beneficial to Iwate if he can find a technological innovation that
- Is compatible with the goals of Foreign language education and meets a need. (compatibility)
- Is not too difficult to use (complexity)
- Is accessible and people can easily try it out (trialability)
- People can understand its advantage of use.
- The effectvieness of the innovation is observable.
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). Free Press.
Therefore, I believe successful research by David will do the following:
- Identify an issue in English education in Iwate
- Introduce an innovation to address this issue.
- Show the effectiveness of the innovation
- Provide guidance to others about how to use the innovation