%0 Journal Article %A Justin D. Olmanson and Fitsum F. Abebe and Valerie Jones and Eric Kyle and Lyrica Lucas and Katherine Robbins and Guieswende Rouamba and Xianquan Liu %D 2015 %J International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 103, 2015 %T Caught in the Tractor Beam of Larger Influences: The Filtration of Innovation in Education Technology Design %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001586 %V 103 %X While emerging technologies continue to emerge, research into their use in learning contexts often focuses on a subset of educational practices and ways of using technologies. In this study we begin to explore the extent to which educational designs are influenced by larger societal and education-related factors not usually explicitly considered when designing or identifying technology-supported education experiences for research study. We examine patterns within and between factors via a content analysis across ten years and 19 different journals of published peer-reviewed research on technology-supported writing. Our findings have implications for how researchers, designers, and educators approach technology-supported educational design within and beyond the field of writing and literacy. %P 2268 - 2272