Constructing Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Technology Integration

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Author(s): Kathleen A. Paciga (Columbia College Chicago, USA), Angela Fowler (Erikson Institute, USA)and Mary Quest (Erikson Institute, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 14
Source title: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7365-4.ch068

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Technology can be an amazing tool for teachers and teaching, but only when used in developmentally appropriate ways. With nearly 300 new applications being created every day, it seems like teachers are staring into a technology-filled abyss that grows deeper and wider each minute. Teacher education programs can help preservice teachers be better prepared to consume, create, and collaborate in developmentally appropriate ways with children by 1) unpacking what developmentally appropriate practice looks, feels, and sounds like; 2) exploring ways experts like writers or musicians authentically utilize technologies in their areas of expertise; 3) providing hands-on experiences with a range of technologies across content areas to build up preservice teachers' levels of comfort just in the technology realm; and 4) requiring preservice teachers to utilize technology in developmentally appropriate ways as they work with children. This chapter provides a theoretical foundation and exemplars-in-practice for each of the aforementioned topics.

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