Not exact matches
Thus, teacher educators need to work with
existing pedagogical beliefs, content and technology knowledge and skills, and prior knowledge and experiences and seek ways in which more innovative instructional
practices become commonplace and the appropriate and effective utilization of technology to support innovative instructional
practices is ensured.
The purpose of this task was not only to require the teachers to learn new technological
practices, but also have them adjust their current information technology use and integrate these new
practices into their
existing pedagogical and content knowledge
practices.
While advantages
exist to the effective integration of technology into ELA, McGrail (2005, 2006) said that, as of her writing, little research had been done specifically on how technology usage relates to ELA teachers»
pedagogical practice or actual use of technology in the classroom.