iPad: Integrating Positive, Active, Digital Tools and Behaviors in Preservice Teacher Education Courses

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Author(s): Ursula Thomas (Georgia Perimeter College, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Educational Technology Integration and Active Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jared Keengwe (University of North Dakota, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8363-1.ch013

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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It is the unavoidable and it is not going away. The gravity of technology has firmly planted itself in our daily existence and yes, this includes teacher education. As technology has because our normative environment in daily life it has also become normative in educator preparation; our new oxygen. This commonplace element is hailed as a tool of equity for learners, preschool through college. Our current populations of learners are digital natives, but many educational leaders are digital tourists. As we look to challenge the traditional notions of distance learning, program offerings, and educator preparation models we must rapidly embrace the persona of the digital native to increase relationships with those we prepare as teachers while at the same time valuing and increasing diversity and voice. This chapter seeks to examine how a teacher educator engages preservice teachers in the world of diversity using technology.

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