Wikis: Developing Pre-service Teachers’ Leadership Skills and Knowledge of Content Standards

Kelli Slaten; Angelia Reid-Griffin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2575–2582

In this initial phase of our multi-year research study we set out to explore the development of leadership skills in our pre-service secondary teachers after using an online wiki, Wikispaces. This paper presents our methods for preparing a group of...

Topics: Secondary Education, Standards, Leadership, Research Methods, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Leadership: Technology and the Common Core

Angelia Reid-Griffin; Kelli Slaten

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4848–4851

The use of Wikis as a tool in education is not new for many technology users including preservice teachers. . We decided to use the tool to help secondary mathematics and science preservice teachers demonstrate leadership and professional...

STEM Academy: MIddle school students learn about graphing using technology tools

Angelia Reid-Griffin; Kelli Slaten

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2947–2951

To help with the challenges many middle school students experience when learning how to use new tools in the classroom, we provided a technology training session during our summer academy for middle school students. The annual summer academy focused ...

Topics: Middle School Education, K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related

Voices of Women in a Software Engineering Course: Reflections on Collaboration

Sarah B. Berenson; Kelli M. Slaten; Laurie Williams; Chih-Wei Ho

Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 2004)

Those science, mathematics, and engineering faculty who are serious about making the education they offer as available to their daughters as to their sons are, we posit, facing the prospect of dismantling a large part of its traditional pedagogical...