Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
June 2016 Volume 16, Number 2
Editors
Glen L. Bull; Lynn Bell; Chrystalla Mouza
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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Developing Preservice Teachers’ Positionalities in 140 Characters or Less: Examining Microblogging as Dialogic Space
Mike P. Cook, Auburn University, United States; Jeanne Dyches Bissonnette, Iowa State University, United States
Studies examining preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences with microblogging and activities that buttress and promote their social justice development have largely occurred in isolation from one... More
pp. 82-109
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Students’ Guided Reinvention of Definition of Limit of a Sequence With Interactive Technology
Alfinio Flores & Jungeun Park, University of Delaware, United States
In a course emphasizing interactive technology, 19 students, including 18 mathematics education majors, mostly in their first year, reinvented the definition of limit of a sequence while working in... More
pp. 110-126
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Enabling Collaboration and Video Assessment: Exposing Trends in Science Preservice Teachers’ Assessments
Mike Borowczak, Erebus Labs, United States; Andrea Burrows, University of Wyoming, United States
This article details a new, free resource for continuous video assessment named YouDemo. The tool enables real time rating of uploaded YouTube videos for use in science, technology, engineering,... More
pp. 127-150
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Preservice Teachers’ TPACK Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Simulations
Antti Lehtinen, Pasi Nieminen & Jouni Viiri, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
This study investigated the effect of an intervention regarding the use of simulations in science teaching on primary school preservice science teachers’ (n = 36) self-assessed technological,... More
pp. 151-171
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Commentary: Building Web Research Strategies for Teachers and Students
Robert Maloy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
This paper presents web research strategies for teachers and students to use in building Dramatic Event, Historical Biography, and Influential Literature wiki pages for history/social studies... More
pp. 172-183
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Technological Modeling: Faculty Use of Technologies in Preservice Teacher Education from 2004 to 2012
Joan E. Hughes, Sa Liu & Mihyun Lim, University of Texas at Austin, United States
This 7-year, cross-sectional study of a 1:1 laptop teacher preparatory program in the United States examined the nature and change in faculty technological modeling. Using survey methods,... More
pp. 184-207