Matching the Hatch - Students' Choices and Preferences in Relation to Handheld Technologies and Learning Mathematics

This paper reports on students' choices of and preferences for different hand held technologies when provide with options within a classroom that integrates technology into the teaching and learning of senior secondary school mathematics. Observations were drawn from video and audio data as well as a whole class interview of the focus group in which the video of a previous lesson was used for stimulated recall. This report notes a number of emergent categories of student preference and choice based on this data and comments on the potential impact of such choices and preferences on student learning.