Information Technology: Supporting change through teacher education

✍ Scribed by Don Passey, Brian Samways (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Vygotsky, informatics capability, and professional development....Pages 3-19
Towards building open learning communities: re-contextualising teachers and learners....Pages 20-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Time for change: critical issues for teacher educators....Pages 35-39
Getting ready to change: the place of change theory in the information technology education of teachers....Pages 40-45
The U-Curve Process That Trainee Teachers Experience In Integrating Computers Into The Curriculum....Pages 46-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Information technology capability: is our definition wide of the mark....Pages 55-61
Present role of informatics teachers in view of applications....Pages 62-68
The TTACOS Project - laying the foundation for national technology standards for students in the United States....Pages 69-75
A dichotomy of purpose: the effect on teachers of government initiatives in information technology....Pages 76-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Identification of the changes in attitude and pedagogical practices needed to enable teachers to use information technology in the school curriculum....Pages 87-94
The centrality of affective variables in the implementation of a national strategy for teacher and pupil information technology suitability in elementary schools....Pages 95-100
Informatics education as a new discipline....Pages 101-107
Issues in the preparation of teachers of programming for children....Pages 108-114
A new approach to teaching information technologies: shifting emphasis from technology to information....Pages 115-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Advisory centre for new technologies - an addition to teacher training....Pages 125-131
A knowledge based model of a networked teachers’ training centre for in-service training with information and communication technology....Pages 132-138
Educational seminars focusing on use of information technology to enhance learning of curricular topics....Pages 139-143
In-service teacher education - a way towards integrating information technology into secondary level curricula....Pages 144-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Breaking the cycle of ignorance: information technology and the professional development of teachers....Pages 155-160
From personal use to classroom use - implications for teacher education in France....Pages 161-168
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The integration of information technology into teachers’ decision-making....Pages 169-175
An adventure in integrating educational computing within teacher education....Pages 176-183
Training teacher educators: a case study of integrating information technology into teacher education....Pages 184-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Networking educational change: meeting the challenge of systemic school reform....Pages 195-201
The PIT-project: A teacher networking approach for broad-scale use of ICT....Pages 202-208
A case study - a New Zealand model for teacher development in information technology....Pages 209-215
Communication - learning - information technology applied examples....Pages 216-221
Teacher professional development in a technology immersion school....Pages 222-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Using videotaped lessons to analyse changes in teachers’ teaching practices of mathematics....Pages 231-237
Computer integration in the mathematics study of pre-service teacher education - experiences with Project CIMS....Pages 238-244
Learning to bridge classroom and computer laboratory activities in mathematics education....Pages 245-253
Integrating graphing technology into teacher education: a case study of an algebra program for prospective secondary school mathematics teachers....Pages 254-259
Software evaluation as a focus for teacher education....Pages 260-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Towards effective learning with new technology resources: the role of teacher education in reconceptualising the relationship between task setting and student learning in technology-rich classrooms....Pages 269-277
The electronic spreadsheet and cognitive skills in inquiry oriented biology....Pages 278-284
Computer science education based on fundamental ideas....Pages 285-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Understanding our instrument of representation....Pages 295-301
Training for information technology use in traditional and futuristic schools....Pages 302-307
The computer as a toy and tool in the home - implications for teacher education....Pages 309-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Teachers and teacher education facing information and communication technologies....Pages 319-326
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Converging technologies in teacher education: key issues, key competencies....Pages 327-333
Learning to teach at a distance: exploring the role of electronic communication....Pages 334-340
Research on telematics for teacher education....Pages 341-348
What expertise do teachers require to facilitate pupils’ self-expression with multimedia....Pages 349-355
Reports from the Focus Groups....Pages 357-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-382

✦ Subjects

Management of Computing and Information Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval