The development of technology integration in a graduate course for practicing teachers

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Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • M.L. Niess
  • H. Gillow-Wiles
  • C. Angeli
Book title Handbook of Research on TPACK in the Digital Age
ISBN
  • 9781522570011
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781522570028
Series Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design
Pages (from-to) 92-112
Number of pages 21
Publisher Hershey, PA: IGI Global
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE)
Abstract
This chapter describes the design and outcomes of a graduate course for practicing teachers that aims to develop the quality of technology integration in their educational contexts. The course is rooted in a set of concepts and theories and in three pedagogical principles for enhancing teachers' technology integration. The outcomes of the course were measured by using a mixed methods design. After the course, all students showed satisfactory TPACK scores and most students (83%) produced lessons that showed a good quality of technology integration, and 75% of the lessons showed a rich array of technological affordances. Neither the quality of the technology integration as shown in their lesson design and enactment nor the number of different technological affordances students showed in their (enacted) lesson design were related to students' TPACK scores after the course. This unexpected finding is discussed. Students reported a development from unconscious technology integration to conscious technology integration.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7001-1.ch005
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