The Multiple Ways Technology Supports Pre-service Teacher Education: A Foray into Multimedia Literacies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2013

Keywords

student teachers, teacher education, multimedia systems in education, elementary education, comparative studies, data analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss what happens when multimedia-technologies and new literacies are integrated into teacher-education literacy methods courses. Within two linked methods courses, in which pre-service teachers tutored elementary students, we examined situated, technology-related behaviors and how these behaviors impacted pre-service teachers' learning and instructional practices. Using the constant-comparative method, we identified seven patterns in the data related to ways in which the meanings of technology-related behaviors must be negotiated between users and teachers.

Citation / Publisher Attribution

Journal of Reading Education, v. 38, issue 3, p. 14-20

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