Search results for: Technology integration

This article describes strategies used by the authors to assist preservice social studies teachers with understanding and applying models and practices for effectively integrating technology into their future classrooms—thus, strengthening the link between technology, pedagogy and content. Efforts with preservice teachers described here have been informed by the authors’ successes assisting in-service teachers with understanding how technology can empower inquiry-based teaching practices in social studies classrooms, as well as efforts to more fully integrate technology into the overall teacher education programs at the authors’ institutions.

This study examines the knowledge of 596 K-12 online teachers with respect to three key domains as described by the TPACK framework: technology, pedagogy, content, and the combination of each of these areas. Findings indicate that knowledge ratings are highest among the domains of pedagogy, content, and pedagogical content, indicating that responding online teachers felt very good about their knowledge related to these domains and were less confident when it comes to technology.

In this article, the authors describe a systematic effort by a department of special education to integrate technology into teaching through a one-to-one laptop initiative and to examine preservice teachers' perceptions concerning their experiences with the initiative. 13 undergraduate special education majors participated in this study. The authors used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings indicate that preservice teachers' perceptions of their abilities to integrate the use of technology in their teaching increased, whereas their attitudes toward integrating technology in teaching remained consistently high across program semesters. Implications of the results are discussed.

In this study, 32 teachers participated in a year-long professional development project related to technology integration in which they designed and implemented a WebQuest. This article describes the extent to which higher-order thinking skills and levels of technology implementation occur in the WebQuests that participants designed. The authors also discuss implications related to the findings and ways to support teachers’ integration of technology.