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Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example

Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example

George Zhou, Judy Xu
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 2155-6873|EISSN: 2155-6881|EISBN13: 9781613508695|DOI: 10.4018/ijopcd.2011070104
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Zhou, George, and Judy Xu. "Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example." IJOPCD vol.1, no.3 2011: pp.50-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijopcd.2011070104

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Zhou, G. & Xu, J. (2011). Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example. International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD), 1(3), 50-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijopcd.2011070104

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Zhou, George, and Judy Xu. "Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example," International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD) 1, no.3: 50-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijopcd.2011070104

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Abstract

Technology proficiency has widely been considered a necessary quality of school teachers, yet how to help teachers develop this quality remains an unanswered question. While teacher education programs often offer one technology course as a solution to this issue, scholars have recently argued that such technical skill-oriented courses are not sufficient to develop preservice teachers’ ability to use technology in teaching. This paper argues that the use of technology in teaching requires integrated knowledge between technology, pedagogy, and subject content, and this highly blended knowledge is best developed through the methods courses of a teacher education program. The key message is that preservice teachers need to be consistently exposed to technology and regularly be required to practice it in many aspects of instruction.

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