The Tone of Teachers' Melody and Wellbeing in Digital Space

Fatemeh Mirzapour ¹ Mehmet Şengül ^2* Samantha Curle ^3,4*

• ¹ Department of English, Sofiyan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sofiyan, Iran, Sofiyan, Iran
• ² Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye
• ³ Department of Education, University of Bath, Bath, England, United Kingdom
• ⁴ English Language and Literature department, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan

Educational technology has become an essential element for improving education. To achieve this goal, teachers are required to have the necessary skills for integrating technology in their educational activities which in turn can be stressful for them. So, this phenomenological study aimed to investigate the positive and negative impacts of technology on teachers' physical and social aspects of well-being. The study was conducted with 12 teachers (seven females and five males) teaching in different high schools in Tabriz, Iran. Six had a BA, and six had a master's degree with at least five years of teaching experience. Semi-structured interviews and a narrative frame were used to gather data. MAXQDA version 2022 was used to analyze the collected data. The results revealed that implementing digital tools had positive and negative impacts on teachers' physical and social wellbeing. Positive effects on physical well-being were saving time and energy, and brain activation, , but exhaustion, increased health risk, and reduced productivity were the negative ones. Besides, teachers experienced positive social well-being, enabling communication among people across the globe, and easier access and transfer of information. Negative social well-being included adverse effects on child-To develop healthy habit of technology use, reduced face to face interaction, family relationships and the positive and negative impacts of technology on their teachers should have information regarding . being -physical and social well