Technologizing Teaching: Using the WebQuest to Enhance Pre-Service Education

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Author(s): Joseph M. Piro (Long Island University, USA)and Nancy Marksbury (Long Island University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 23
Source title: Educational Technology, Teacher Knowledge, and Classroom Impact: A Research Handbook on Frameworks and Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert N. Ronau (University of Louisville, USA), Christopher R. Rakes (University of Louisville, USA)and Margaret L. Niess (Oregon State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-750-0.ch010

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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With the continuing shift of instructional media to digital sources occurring in classrooms around the world, the role of technology instruction in the pre-service curriculum of K-12 teachers is acquiring increasing salience. However, barriers to its inclusion continue to exist. In this chapter we focus on a model of hybridity designed to embed technology instruction into pre-service education. This model is known as the WebQuest and involves the development of a technology-driven learning activity that scaffolds the building of skills in content, pedagogy, and technology integration in pre-service teachers. We discuss data from an exploratory project conducted within a class of graduate pre-service teachers experiencing instruction in creating a WebQuest, and offer some preliminary findings. We place these results within a larger perspective of the CFTK and TPACK frameworks and their application to issues germane to pre-service teacher education.

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