Information Technology: Supporting Change Through Teacher EducationDon Passey, Brian Samways Springer Science & Business Media, 1997 M07 31 - 382 pages This book considers how the fundamental issues relating to the use of information technology in education, are being tackled across the world. Significantly it features international perspectives on the challenge that information and communications technology poses to teacher education; views of trainee teacher experiences with computers; insights into the ways in which communication technologies are being used to link teachers and students; consideration of the impact of change with information and communications technology; discussion of the roles of those involved in developing teacher education with information and communications techology at national, institutional and teacher levels. It contains the selected proceedings of the International Conference on Information technology: Supporting change through teacher education, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing, and held at Kiryat Anavim, Israel, in June/July 1996. |
Contents
Vygotsky informatics capability and professional development | xxvi |
Towards building open learning communities recontextualising teachers and learners | 20 |
Time for change critical issues for teacher educators | 35 |
Getting ready to change the place of change theory in the information technology education of teachers | 40 |
The Ucurve process that trainee teachers experience in integrating computers into the curriculum | 46 |
Information technology capability is our definition wide of the mark? | 55 |
Present role of informatics teachers in view of applications | 62 |
The TTACOS Project laying the foundation for national technology standards for students in the United States | 69 |
Communication learning information technology applied examples | 216 |
Teacher professional development in a technology immersion school | 222 |
Using videotaped lessons to analyse changes in teachers teaching practices of mathematics | 231 |
Computer integration in the mathematics study of preservice teacher education experiences with Project CIMS | 238 |
Learning to bridge classroom and computer laboratory activities in mathematics education | 245 |
Integrating graphing technology into teacher education a case study of an algebra program for prospective secondary school mathematics teachers | 254 |
Software evaluation as a focus for teacher education | 260 |
Towards effective learning with new technology resources the role of teacher education in reconceptualising the relationship between task setting and... | 269 |
A dichotomy of purpose the effect on teachers of government initiatives in information technology | 76 |
Identification of the changes in attitude and pedagogical practices needed to enable teachers to use information technology in the school curriculum | 87 |
The centrality of affective variables in the implementation of a national strategy for teacher and pupil information technology suitability in elementar... | 95 |
Informatics education as a new discipline | 101 |
Issues in the preparation of teachers of programming for children | 108 |
A new approach to teaching information technologies shifting emphasis from technology to information | 115 |
Advisory centre for new technologies an addition to teacher training | 125 |
A knowledge based model of a networked teachers training centre for inservice training with information and communication technology | 132 |
Educational seminars focusing on use of information technology to enhance learning of curricular topics | 139 |
Inservice teacher education a way towards integrating information technology into secondary level curricula | 144 |
Breaking the cycle of ignorance information technology and the professional development of teachers | 155 |
From personal use to classroom use implications for teacher education in France | 161 |
The integration of information technology into teachers decision making | 169 |
An adventure in integrating educational computing within teacher education | 176 |
Training teacher educators a case study of integrating information technology into teacher education | 184 |
Networking educational change meeting the challenge of systemic school reform | 195 |
The PITproject A teacher networking approach for broadscale use of ICT | 202 |
A case study a New Zealand model for teacher development in information technology | 209 |
The electronic spreadsheet and cognitive skills in inquiry oriented biology | 278 |
Computer science education based on fundamental ideas | 285 |
Understanding our instrument of representation | 295 |
Training for information technology use in traditional and futuristic schools | 302 |
The computer as a toy and tool in the home implications for teacher education | 309 |
Teachers and teacher education facing information and communication technologies | 319 |
Converging technologies in teacher education key issues key competencies | 327 |
Learning to teach at a distance exploring the role of electronic communication | 334 |
Research on telematics for teacher education | 341 |
What expertise do teachers require to facilitate pupils selfexpression with multimedia? | 349 |
Reports from the Focus Groups | 357 |
Evaluation in technologyequipped settings | 363 |
Internet and teacher education | 369 |
Alphabetical List of Conference Participants | 375 |
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Page 4 - IFIP's aim is two-fold: to support information processing within its member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As its mission statement clearly states, IF IP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of information technology for the benefit of all people. IFIP is a non-profitmaking organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers.
Page 4 - IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. An umbrella organization for societies working in information processing...
Page 4 - Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed. The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is less rigorous and papers are subjected to extensive group discussion. Publications arising from IFIP events vary....