USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT TEACHING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN A PRESERVICE PROGRAM

Barbara Beyerbach; Pat Russo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 312–316

This article describes how we have attempted to use technology to support teaching for social justice in an educational foundations and in an elementary methods course in our teacher education program. Programs, class activities, and analysis of...

Topics: Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods

Preservice Teachers Response to a Webquest on Culturally Relevant Teaching

Barbara Beyerbach; Marcia Burrell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 801–805

This paper explores preservice teachers responses to using a Web Quest I designed for my Culturally Relevant Teaching Course to engage students in (1) exploring resources on the history and current issues relating to a particular ethnic group, (2)...

Topics: Teachers, Curriculum

Infusing Technology into Preservice Teacher Education

Josephine Farrell; Barbara Beyerbach

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1618–1623

Facilitating a Constructivist Vision of Technology Integration among Education Faculty and Preservice Teachers

Rachel A. Vannatta; Barbara Beyerbach

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 33, No. 2 (2000) pp. 132–48

Describes year two of an ongoing Goals 2000 Preservice Technology Infusion Project that prepared higher education faculty, K-12 teachers, and preservice teachers to integrate technology in their instruction to facilitate a constructivist vision of...

Using a Computerized Concept Mapping Program to Assess Preservice Teachers' Thinking about Effective Teaching

Barbara A. Beyerbach; Joyce M. Smith

Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 27, No. 10 (1990) pp. 961–71

Concept mapping with "Learning Tool," a computerized mapping program, was used to assess changes in the content and organization of 17 preservice teachers' concept maps for the topic of effective teaching. This study illustrates how concept mapping...

From Teaching Technology to Using Technology to Enhance Student Learning: Preservice Teachers’ Changing Perceptions of Technology Infusion

RACHEL VANNATTA; BARBARA BEYERBACH; CHRISTINE WALSH

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2001) pp. 105–127

This article uncovers changes that occurred in preservice teachers' thinking about and use of technology infusion and its role in student learning. It reports on findings from a two-year evaluation study of a preservice teacher technology in-fusion...

Topics: Teachers, Change, Classrooms

An Investigation of Computer Anxiety among Vocational-Technical Teachers

Harrison Hao Yang; Dominic Mohamed; Barbara Beyerbach

Journal of Industrial Teacher Education Vol. 37, No. 1 (1999) pp. 64–82

Responses from 84% of 245 vocational-technical teachers in Dade County, Florida, revealed that 25% experienced computer anxiety. The relationship between anxiety and teaching area or demographic variables was not significant. Computer-related...

From Teaching Technology to Using Technology To Enhance Student Learning: Preservice Teachers' Changing Perceptions of Technology Infusion

Barbara Beyerbach; Christine Walsh; Rachel Vannatta

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2001) pp. 105–27

Discusses changes that occurred in preservice teachers' thinking about and use of technology infusion and its role in student learning. Reports findings from a two-year evaluation study of a preservice teacher technology infusion project in which...