In 268 of the work samples (78 %) preservice
teachers documented technology integration in their instruction or use of technology by their K - 12 students (see Table 3).
Not exact matches
This
document is intended as simple introduction to some free Web 2.0 type tools that can be used by
teachers who are interested in using
technology in language teaching.
She proposed that instead of just
documenting technology group trainings, she should be allowed to
document other types of staff development, including modeling, co-teaching, conferencing, finding resources, and mentoring her
teachers.
Teachers who aren't familiar with more exotic
technology like Photoshop and video editing needn't worry; they can still teach 21st century skills to their students by requiring them to create Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint
documents, embed photos, credit sources with hyperlinks, and wade through a variety of Internet sites with a critical eye.
«We needed a new type of instruction that better reflected the goals we wanted each student to achieve, demonstrate, and
document,» says Paul Curtis, one of the original lead
teachers at New Tech and now director of curriculum for the New
Technology Foundation.
Below are sample project - based learning
documents from
teachers Mary Mobley (English) and Michael Chambers (world history) of Manor New
Technology High School in Manor, Texas.
She has
documented a number of
technology - assisted strategies for building systems and portfolios for
teacher assessments that work.
Many studies have
documented teacher beliefs and attitudes as being factors that explain why they may or may not use
technology in the classroom (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010; Hutchison & Reinking, 2011; Miranda & Russell, 2012; Overbay, Patterson, Vasu, & Grable, 2010; Smerdon et al., 2000; Wohlwend, 2010), although
teachers themselves do not necessarily report their own beliefs as being an obstacle for doing so.
When asked to choose a specific
technology medium, a majority of preservice
teachers (36 of 58) opted to use a Word
document for their informal reflection journal.
The case further
documents how three middle school science
teacher participants developed knowledge about how to teach with
technology as they planned and implemented a blog activity in science over a 4 - week period.
The connection between
teacher beliefs and
teacher use of
technology has been well -
documented in the literature (Chan & Elliott, 2004; Ertmer, 2005; Kagan, 1992; Kim et al., 2013; Levin & Wadmany, 2005; Niederhauser & Stoddart, 2001).
Billed as the nation's «flagship educational
technology policy
document,» the plan contains specific recommendations for
teacher preparation programs relative to its «vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere - all - the - time learning possible.»
Teachers should
document how the student is trained to use the assistive
technology, how often it is actually used, whether it is used appropriately, and how the student's performance changes over time.
A similar process was used to categorize the K - 12 students» use of
technology documented in the preservice
teachers» work samples and reflections.
It is highly recommended that
teachers or other adults read the Introduction to TestNav 8: Multiple - Choice /
Technology - Enhanced Item Tests
document prior to reading the Guided Practice Suggestions for a practice item set.
Table 4 Evidence of
Technology Use in Instruction
Documented in Preservice
teachers» Reflection (N = 151)
Table 2 Use of
Technology in Instruction by Preservice
Teachers and by Their K - 12 Students
Documented in Work Samples (2002 - 2007)
The
document intends to be «a national vision and plan for learning enabled by
technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom
teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations.»
Of the various
technology media the preservice English
teachers could use for their informal reflection journals, they chose one of the following: an individual weblog, a personal webpage, a direct email to the professor, or electronic submission of a Microsoft Word
document via email.
This article
documents the efforts to develop and support mathematics
teachers who participated in
technology workshops related to their curriculum.
The main purpose of this study was to examine
technology PD content and formats
teachers perceived useful in 2009 and 2015,
documenting whether shifts occurred.
Tasks like loading a PDF
document onto the e-reader were intended to help preservice
teachers become more familiar using the
technology.
Mr. Cleveland holds membership in the National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE), the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and the Education
Technology Industry Network (ETIN), and has created and revised curriculum
documents for school districts and educational organizations across the southern region.
Her comments, reproduced below,
document the wasted money spent on computers and other
technology, especially in minority schools, while the real impact on students is from their
teachers, not
technology.