Section archive - ICT & Teaching

One method underutilized in training teachers to use technology is to use live modeling sessions. This study qualitatively investigates how the use of modeling sessions impacted students. In this study we found that modeling was perceived by most students to be effective at teaching technology skills and ideas for integrating technology as teachers.

The purposes of this paper are (a) to describe how the open-ended knowledge construction and communication tools TEE (The Electronic Exercise) and EF-editor (Exercise Format Editor) can serve socialconstructive language learning from a distributed cognition point of view, (b) to report how TEE and EF-editor have been used in a foreign language classroom with 25 seventh grade students for creating a Web-based tourist guide to London, and (c) to present the results of an evaluative study investigating the benefits and constraints the teacher and students experienced through this learning scenario.

This article explores the ways in which technology connects preservice teachers, school personnel, and university faculty members. Implications for teacher education are also examined, and recommendations are offered in four areas of teacher education: technological literacy, strength of the theory-practice connection, practice-centered training, and reflection into the scholarship and practice of teaching.

The effectiveness of technology used to address multiple learning styles in a constructivist environment was the topic of a study in a preservice teacher education reading methods course. Technology was used to communicate, scaffold and clarify concepts and content, engaging students with information. Outside of the classroom, technology was used in mediating and negotiating learning between the instructor and the students, and among the students.