Not exact matches
More research is
needed on the creative use of Snapchat among young people, its potential as a
pedagogical tool in schools and ways that schools can address the dark side of its misuse.
In either event, survey
tools provide very little real assessment of staff skills and
needs, and they are absolutely useless when it comes to helping teachers find good
pedagogical uses for technology.
In the same way, we
need to prepare future teachers to make appropriate selections of technological
tools to address specific
pedagogical goals.
Deeper understanding combined with the PSD
tool can help improve instructional
pedagogical practices by enabling cooperating teachers, college mentors and principals to identify areas in
need of growth and monitor individual pre - service / novice teacher progress.
The rapid expansion of available technological
tools has prompted scholarly discourse about how Shulman's (1987) construct of
pedagogical content knowledge might be built upon to help describe the sort of knowledge teachers
need for teaching with technology.
Preservice teachers will
need time to experience different technologies firsthand, time to evaluate the
pedagogical usefulness of these technologies, and time to integrate the best
tools into their lesson planning.