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In this paper, the emphasis is on teaching the foundation phases of school via the Zoom platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fifteen out of the eighteen teachers of a private school in South Africa completed the survey questions, and the questions were then analyzed using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Most teachers felt that they were able to use Zoom successfully, although they prefer face-to-face teaching. The paper’s main contribution is the identification of six factors affecting the use of Zoom, namely the importance of being prepared, the role that the environment plays, the resources available, the ability of the student, the infrastructure in place, and lastly, the part that discipline plays. Future research will involve more grades in the study, not only grades 1 to 3, and survey other schools and their teachers using similar online teaching tools.
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Pillay, K., Prinsloo, T. (2021). Using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Explain Foundation Phase Teachers’ Perceptions of Online Zoom Classes During a Pandemic – A Case of a South African Private School. In: Huang, YM., Lai, CF., Rocha, T. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_53
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