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The authors ascertain the possibilities of using the online environment of google.doc for initiating pre-service teachers’ discourse about the nature of inclusive relationships between individuals and the environment, and the ways of their enhancement. The content analysis of the generated discourse yields a system of 15 approaches that pre-service teachers use for communicating about the nature of and prerequisites for inclusive relationships.
Published: 2013
Updated: Aug. 27, 2013
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This exploratory study investigated the problems outlined in the literature surrounding the development of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU). The authors analysed blog postings over an eight-week period to identify the varying levels of student conception of TGfU using the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. The findings revealed that students move through at least two SOLO levels of metacognitive development. For pre-service teachers, TGfU represents a challenge to their pedagogical paradigm.
Published: 2013
Updated: Aug. 26, 2013
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a model for integrating assistive technology (AT) throughout a preservice undergraduate special education teacher preparation program at a large public university. Results indicated that special education teacher candidates were satisfied with their AT instruction and felt prepared for using ATs with students.
Published: 2011
Updated: Aug. 07, 2013
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In this article, the authors examine the case of the Winston Society. The authors argue that the participants saw the technological demands of the Winston Society as less threatening than participating in social practices that emphasized more participatory and collaborative knowledge-making, distributed expertise, and less published and individuated kinds of authorship. The authors claim that the data pointed to at least three alternative directions for the use of new literacies in teacher education: teachers’ discomfort with digital epistemologies, the potential of online affinity spaces and of networking social media to mediate teachers’ professional development.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 30, 2013
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This study aimed to implement a novel learning tool on cell phones, Augmented Reality Games, and determine how the interaction influenced preservice teachers’ content knowledge and self-efficacy of cell phone use in schools. Results show a significant gain both elementary and secondary preservice teachers in content knowledge and self-efficacy of cell phone use in schools.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 22, 2013
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Results of this study identified evidence markers that characterize reflection in preservice teacher electronic portfoliosThe author describes how the school of education faculty members identified these markers. The author argues that being able to explicitly recognize and characterize the evidence which identifies reflection should assist instructors in teaching the skills of reflection and in making better use of electronic portfolios for promoting reflection among preservice teachers.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 17, 2013
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Six preservice social studies teachers created electronic portfolios to examine techniques believed to promote active student engagement during a 12-week field experience. Results reveal that electronic portfolios evidence facilitated re-examination of teaching and formulation of improvement plans. However, competing time demands and limited technology familiarity influenced preservice teachers to rely on personal coaching.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 17, 2013
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The authors investigated the effectiveness and impacts of process prompts on students’ learning and computer self-efficacy within the technology-enabled project-based learning (PBL) context in an undergraduate educational technology course. The participants were thirty-five prospective teachers enrolled in a Web-Based Instruction for English Language Teaching (ELT) course. Students’ interviews and reflections revealed that process prompts were important in facilitating problem-solving efforts. The surveys showed significant gains on students’ computer self-efficacy after the completion of technology-enabled PBL.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 16, 2013
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The Technology Integration Confidence Scale (TICS) represents a measure of preservice teacher traits regarding technology integration training. This article describes new Item Response Theory analyses of multi-semester the TICS data. The author finds the TICS to function very well. The author also finds that TICS scores remain consistent from semester-to-semester.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 16, 2013
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The authors evaluate the Team-Taught Cohort Model for preparing pre-service teachers to use technology in their classrooms. This model provides pre-service teachers with an opportunity to integrate technology into a unit based on strong educational theory and current research. The model also provides the pre-service teachers an opportunity to spend quality time in a middle or high school classroom with a mentor teacher while being supported and coached by a team of university faculty members in a technology-rich environment. Results indicate that the Team-Taught Cohort Model is successful in increasing pre-service teachers’ competence and confidence in technology integration in the classroom.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 15, 2013