3Ds of Integrating Cloud Technologies into Classrooms

Abstract

Cloud technologies offer many pedagogical possibilities for collaboration, ubiquitous learning, and documenting student engagement activities through learning analytics among others. However, effective integration of cloud technologies demands a complex set of teachers' theoretical and conceptual understandings and digital competencies. Furthermore, the teachers also need to re-examine their critical internal barriers such as the lack of digital self-efficacy. A closer look reveals that there is an undergirding notion – the teachers' digital identity – that enables them to develop their conceptual and practical digital competencies and self-efficacy. In this chapter, I critically explore and examine new pedagogical possibilities of integrating cloud technologies into classrooms within the triadic interplay of digital identity, competencies, and self-efficacy (3Ds).