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Mark Hofer
William & Mary
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Student Voices: Digital Moviemaking Across the Curriculum in K-16 Classrooms
Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1413–1415
With the development of free or inexpensive video creation software, K-16 students can easily create digital movies. Utilizing intuitive, user-friendly software, even young students can create projects which incorporate images, music, video and...
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Web-Based Digital Archives: Supporting Student-Centered Learning
Mark Hofer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 705–707
Web-based digital archives are rapidly multiplying in both number and content on the web. These rich collections of text, images, sound files, and video clips centered on a common topic or theme provide a rich resource to support student-centered...
Topics: Students, Classrooms
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Effective Technology Staff Development: A Grass-Roots Approach
Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 687–688
Training to support the integration of technology into the curriculum can be difficult. Research suggests that on-site, just-in-time instruction is more effective than one-time workshops in facilitating meaningful technology integration into the...
Topics: Leadership, Classrooms, Teachers, Training, Integration
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Technology Integration Across Teacher Preparation in Award-Winning Programs
Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2245–2250
This paper is a report on a study which examines the approaches of the first seven teacher education programs to receive the ISTE NETS Distinguished Achievement Award for exemplary integration of the ISTE NETS-T standards. Multiple faculty members...
Topics: Achievement, Integration, Faculty, Standards
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Technology and Teacher Preparation in Exemplary Institutions: 1994 to 2003
Mark Hofer
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 22, No. 1 (2005) pp. 5–14
In a 1994 study commissioned by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Mergendoller, Johnston, Rockman, & Willis (1994) examined four exemplary institutions to identify their approaches to integrating technology into teacher education. A ...
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Instructional Planning Activity Types as Vehicles for Curriculum-Based TPACK Development
Judi Harris; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 4087–4095
Teachers’ knowledge is situated, event-structured, and episodic. Technology, pedagogy and content knowledge (TPACK) – one form of highly practical professional educational knowledge – is comprised of teachers’ concurrent and interdependent...
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TPACK Research with Inservice Teachers: Where’s the TCK?
Mark Hofer; Judi Harris
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4704–4709
Researchers are increasingly exploring the development and expression of experienced teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). While the majority of extant studies focus on evidence and growth of TPACK holistically, some have...
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A new model for pre-service educational technology classes
Steve Whitaker; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 455–458
A new model for pre-service educational technology classes As the integration of technology into K-12 classrooms becomes a standard-driven requirement across the country, teacher education programs are struggling to design courses that prepare...
Topics: Computers, Integration, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Classrooms
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Examining Student-Created Documentaries as a Mechanism for Engaging Students in Authentic Intellectual Work
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer
Theory and Research in Social Education Vol. 41, No. 1 (2013) pp. 133–175
Over the last several decades, social studies educators' interest and emphasis on integrating technology into teaching has increased significantly. One promising area of inquiry focuses on the benefits of student-produced digital video. A number of...
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TPACK Development in Teacher Education: A Longitudinal Study of Preservice Teachers in a Secondary M.A.Ed. Program
Mark Hofer; Neal Grandgenett
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 45, No. 1 (2012) pp. 83–106
How does preservice teachers' knowledge for technology integration develop during their teacher preparation program? Which areas of their knowledge develop most naturally, and which areas require more scaffolding? In this mixed-methods, descriptive...
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In Search of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Teachers' Initial Foray into Podcasting in Economics
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 44, No. 1 (2011) pp. 75–98
In this paper, we report on work with eight practicing ninth grade social studies teachers to determine how they chose to integrate podcasting to help their students build on their economic literacy, which includes building both economic concepts...
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Open Educational Resources (OERs) for TPACK Development
Mark Hofer; Judi Harris
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2872–2877
We have developed customizable, modularized, TPACK-based online short courses that are designed to help elementary and secondary preservice teachers learn to plan technologically enhanced, curriculum-based lessons, projects, and units. We offer...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Differentiating TPACK-based Learning Materials for Preservice and Inservice Teachers
Mark Hofer; Judi Harris
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2357–2366
Teacher educators have long noted differences between preservice and inservice teachers? knowledge, practice, and professional learning. A small number of studies have compared novice and experienced teachers? technology integration knowledge,...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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The Curry School of Education and Long-Term Commitment to Technology Integration
Randy Bell; Mark Hofer
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 3, No. 1 (2003) pp. 88–98
Technology integration in the Curry School's teacher education program has been a 15-year effort, initiated and supported by the school's leadership, spurred on by technology innovators, and adopted by many mainstream education faculty members who...
Topics: Educational Technology, Schools
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The Construct is in the Eye of the Beholder: School Districts’ Appropriations and Reconceptualizations of TPACK
Judi Harris; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2519–2526
Despite debates about the specific parameters of its eight subcomponents, TPACK is generally understood within university-based teacher education communities as the knowledge needed to incorporate technologies—especially digital tools and resources...
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Planning for Deep Learning Using TPACK-based Learning Activity Types
Judi Harris; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2864–2871
Teaching for students’ deep learning, while rooted in venerable 20th-century educational research and theory contributed by Vygotsky, Dewey, and others, is taking on a new urgency as heretofore theoretical depictions of 21st-century learning are...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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ISTE educational technology standards: Implementation in award-winning teacher education programs
Mark James Hofer
@?ISTE educational@technology standards: Implementation in @?award-winning teacher@education programs (2003) pp. 1–108
In 1997, the National Association for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) adopted the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for preparing preservice teachers to use...
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Preparing Pre-service teachers: How Far Should We Go?
Steve Whitaker; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1338–1339
This paper examines the challenge of determining how colleges of education should prepare pre-service teachers to enhance teaching and learning with technology. With so many different types of software, emerging technologies, and the constraints of...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology
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Connecting Theory and Practice Through Design-Based Research: Applying Universal Design for Learning Principles to Multimedia Presentations
Karen Richardson; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4221–4224
Meeting the diverse needs of learners in the classroom in an ongoing challenge for educators. Universal Design for Learning principles provide guidance in how to meet the needs of all learners. However, without specific implementation techniques,...
Topics: Instructional Design
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Digital Campaigning: Using the Bill of Rights to Advance a Political Position
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer
Social Studies Vol. 97, No. 5 (2006) pp. 208–214
Educating students to understand overt, subtle, and erroneous claims made by partisan advertisers is no small feat. Often students are passive consumers who need to learn how to become critical listeners, viewers, readers, and producers of all types ...
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The Historical Scene Investigation (HSI) Project: Facilitating Historical Thinking with Web-Based, Digital Primary Source Documents
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 4002–4009
Recent research in the teaching and learning of history advocates instructional approaches that engage students in the process of "doing history," including building historical knowledge through the use of primary sources, conducting historical...
Topics: Students, Social Studies
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Differentiating TPACK Development: Using Learning Activity Types with Inservice and Preservice Teachers
Mark Hofer; Judith Harris
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3857–3864
As teacher educators have begun to recognize and acknowledge the complexity of teacher knowledge for technology integration, currently conceptualized as technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), researchers are exploring multiple ways to...
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Topics and Sequences in Experienced Teachers’ Instructional Planning: Addressing a ~30-year Literature Gap
Mark Hofer; Judi Harris
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2443–2452
Which topics were addressed, and in what sequence(s) did they appear, in experienced K-12 teachers’ instructional plans that incorporate students’ educational technology use? Eight volunteer classroom teachers with expertise in a broad variety of...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Digital Storytelling: Moving from Promise to Practice
Mark Hofer; Kathleen Owings Swan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 679–684
Student-created digital storytelling projects provide a number of promising opportunities in the classroom. Along with this promise come many challenges with both pedagogy and the technology. This paper provides an overview of several different...
Topics: Classrooms
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Action: A Case Study of a Middle School Digital Documentary Project
Mark Hofer; Kathleen Owings Swan
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 41, No. 2 (2008) pp. 179–200
In recent years researchers in educational technology have begun to look closely at the complexity of integrating technology in K-12 classrooms. The development of the notion of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) provides a useful...
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Trend Alert: A History Teacher's Guide to Using Podcasts in the Classroom
Kathleen Owings Swan; Mark Hofer
Social Education Vol. 73, No. 2 (March 2009) pp. 95–102
A "podcast" (an amalgam of the word broadcast and the iPod digital audio player) is essentially a broadcast of digital audio files on the web that users can listen to on their computer or digital audio player (e.g., iPod). Podcasts can be...
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Technology and Disciplined Inquiry in the Social Studies
Mark J. Hofer; Kathy Swan
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 25–30
More than 15 years ago, Martorella (1997) asked what has now become a seminal question in the field of social studies and technology; that is, "Which way to the sleeping giant?" (p. 511). He suggested a number of roles that technology can play in...
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Digital Image Manipulation: A Compelling Means to Engage Students in Discussion of Point of View and Perspective
Mark Hofer; Kathleen Owings Swan
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 3 (2005) pp. 290–299
With the importance of imagery in our culture and the increasing access to both digital images and the tools used to manipulate them, it is important that social studies teacher educators prepare preservice teachers to provide their students with...
Topics: Preservice Teachers, Technology integration, Integration, Multimedia, Social Studies, teacher preparation, Educational multimedia, Inclusive Education
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Standards, Firewalls, and General Classroom Mayhem: Implementing Student-Centered Technology Projects in the Elementary Classroom
Mark Hofer; Kathleen Owings Swan
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 2007) pp. 42–58
If integrating technology means nothing more than enhancing the traditional delivery system of social studies content, where laptops replace notebooks, where PowerPoint slides replace handwritten overheads, where e-textbooks replace hard copy...
Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Materials, Professional Development, Standards, Students
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The Historical Scene Investigation (HSI) Project: Examining the Use of Case Based Historical Instruction in the Fifth Grade Social Studies Classroom
Kathleen Owings Swan; Mark Hofer; David Lacascio
International Journal of Social Education Vol. 22, No. 2 (2008) pp. 70–100
The Historical Scene Investigation (HSI) project is designed to help teachers integrate historical investigations into their K-12 history instruction. The HSI project materials provide streamlined and aesthetically engaging Web-based historical...
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Promise and Parameters: Digital Badges for Ongoing Professional Learning
Mark Hofer; Jessica Duggan; Todd Moellendick
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 171–179
Professional educators desire ongoing learning experiences to enhance their practice, gain new skills, and advance in their careers These professional development experiences take many forms, including school or district-provided training sessions,...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education
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Incorporating Knowledge of Students Systematically into TPACK-based Instruction: An Illustration
Judi Harris; Marcela van Olphen; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 5054–5061
How might teachers’ knowledge of students’ specific learning needs and preferences be incorporated into their TPACK, and subsequently into their practice? How can this knowledge help teachers to select and employ particular technologies in specific...
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Navigating the Blended Learning Classroom: One Teacher?s Perspective on Designing and Delivering Blended Instruction
Adam Barger; Mark Hofer; Lindy Johnson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1434–1442
In this paper, we report on findings from the initial phase of a research study on blended teaching and learning. We focus on the experiences of one teacher as she designs and delivers a blended learning course in a mid-sized high school piloting a...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, K-12 Online Learning
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Practitioner’s Guide to Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK): Rich Media Cases of Teacher Knowledge
Mark Hofer; Lynn Bell; Glen Bull
Practitioner’s Guide to Technology Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (TPACK) (2015) pp. 1–157
The goal of the TPACK Practitioners Guide is simple—to offer exemplary cases of technology integration efforts that result in curriculum-based student learning in each of the following nine content areas and grade level contexts:
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Fulfilling the Need for a Technology Integration Specialist
Mark Hofer; Barbara Chamberlin; Tammy Scot
T.H.E. Journal Vol. 32, No. 3 (Oct 01, 2004)
School-based technology specialists go by many names: technology coordinators, technology integration specialists, technology support specialists, instructional technology coordinators, technology mentor teachers, curriculum technology partners,...
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Using Structured Interviews to Assess Experienced Teachers’ TPACK
Judi Harris; Neal Grandgenett; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4696–4703
In 2010, the authors developed, tested, and released a reliable and valid instrument that can be used to assess the quality of inexperienced teachers’ TPACK by examining their detailed written lesson plans. In the current study, the same instrument...
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Examining Authentic Intellectual Work with a Historical Digital Documentary Inquiry Project in a Mandated State Testing Environment
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer; Gerry Swan
Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 3 (2011) pp. 115–122
Three criteria for meaningful student learning--construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and value beyond school--are assessed as authentic learning outcomes for an implementation of a digital documentary project in two fifth grade history...
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The Historical Scene Investigation (HSI) Project: Facilitating Historical Thinking with Web-Based, Digital Primary Source Documents
Mark Hofer; Kathleen Owings Swan; Steve Whitaker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4801–4806
Recent research in the teaching and learning of history advocates instructional approaches that engage students in the process of "doing history," including building historical knowledge through the use of primary sources and conducting historical...
Topics: Teachers, Social Studies, Students
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Action: A Descriptive Study of Secondary Teachers' Curriculum-Based, Technology-Related Instructional Planning
Judith B. Harris; Mark J. Hofer
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 43, No. 3 (2011) pp. 211–229
How does teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) inform their instructional planning? How can this knowledge be enhanced? In an interpretivist study of experienced secondary social studies teachers' planning, we sought to...
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More Is at Stake than Scores and School Rankings: Examining Authentic Intellectual Work with a Fifth-Grade Digital Documentary Inquiry Project in a Mandated State Testing Environment
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer; Gerry Swan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3697–3739
Three criteria for meaningful student learning, construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and value beyond school, are assessed as authentic learning outcomes for an implementation of a digital primary sources project in 5th grades classrooms...
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Testing a TPACK-Based Technology Integration Assessment Rubric
Judi Harris; Neal Grandgenett; Mark Hofer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3833–3840
Although there is ever-increasing emphasis on integrating technology in teaching, there are few well-tested and refined assessments to measure the quality of this integration. The few measures that are available tend to favor constructivist...
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The "Starving Time" Wikinquiry: Using a Wiki to Foster Historical Inquiry
Jeremy D. Stoddard; Mark J. Hofer; Molly G. Buchanan
Social Education Vol. 72, No. 3 (2008)
During our careers as teachers, professional development specialists, and teacher educators, we have made perpetual attempts to develop instructional strategies and tools for engaging students in historical inquiry. Emphasis in recent years in the...
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Instructional Uses of Instant Messaging (IM) during Classroom Lectures
Mable B. Kinzie; Stephen D. Whitaker; Mark J. Hofer
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 2 (2005) pp. 150–160
Can "Information Age" learners effectively multi-task in the classroom? Can synchronous classroom activities be designed around conceptually related tasks, to encourage deeper processing and greater learning of classroom content? This research was...
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Camera! Action! Collaborate with Digital Moviemaking
Kathleen Owings Swan; Mark Hofer; Linda S. Levstik
Social Studies and the Young Learner Vol. 19, No. 4 (2007) pp. 17–20
Broadly defined, digital moviemaking integrates a variety of media (images, sound, text, video, narration) to communicate with an audience. There is near-ubiquitous access to the necessary software (MovieMaker and iMovie are bundled free with their...
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Using the TPACK Framework to Increase Technology use in Higher Education Around the World
David Slykhuis; Mark Hofer; John Lee; Jim Ptaszynski
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1056–1061
Higher education faculty are experts in their fields, but often are not practiced in the fine art of teaching. Teaching practice in higher education is dominated by stand and deliver pedagogies that limit students opportunities to engage in the...
Topics: Change, Faculty, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Faculty Development for Technology Integration: Opportunities and Challenges on a Global Scale
Mark Hofer; John Lee; David Slykhuis; James Ptaszynski
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 770–774
Two years ago Microsoft Education invited a group of teacher educators from ten universities and three professional organizations from the United States, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Finland and issued a grand challenge - to develop the...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, International Education
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The Production, Consumption and Distribution of Economic Podcasts
Kathy Swan; Mark Hofer; Gerry Swan; Joan Mazur
Social Education Vol. 74, No. 3 (2010) pp. 148–151
Podcasting remains one of the hot "buzz words" in technology today--both in and out of schools. For high school economics teachers, there is a growing number of podcasts targeted for instruction on economics. While the podcasts can be useful...
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National Technology Leadership Coalition TPACK Initiative: Illustrating TPACK through Video-based Teaching Cases
Mike Searson; David Slykhuis; John Lee; Mark Hofer; Glen Bull
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) p. 5095
SITE is collaborating with peer associations in the National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC) to develop video-based teaching cases illustrating effective use of TPACK. Participating associations developing pilot teaching cases include the...
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Testing a TPACK-Based Technology Integration Observation Instrument
Mark Hofer; Neal Grandgenett; Judi Harris; Kathy Swan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 4352–4359
Teachers’ knowledge for technology integration – conceptualized as technological pedagogical content knowledge, or TPACK (Mishra & Koehler 2006) – is difficult to discern, much less assess. Given the complexity, situatedness and interdependence of...
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Operationalizing TPACK for Educators: The Activity Types Approach to Technology Integration, Part 2
Mark Hofer; Judi Harris; Margaret Blanchard; Neal Grandgenett; Denise Schmidt; Marcela van Olphen; Carl Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 4103–4106
During this second session in a two-part symposium, we will first introduce and explain the activity types approach to technology integration, demonstrating how it helps teachers to develop technology integration knowledge (specifically,...