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Quality professional development for technology integration is especially needed. Online delivery methods offer much promise for anytime, anywhere teacher learning. Evaluation tools and methods can help designers of technology integration TPD sites...

Abstract: New teachers often hold established beliefs about teaching and learning developed through their experience as students in K-12 schools, and these beliefs are often resistant to change. In order to challenge existing beliefs and develop...

This paper begins with a short history of the rise of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies before turning to a select review of the research literature on the use of these technologies in teacher education (i.e., preservice, inservice, and...

Quality teaching involves building on students' knowledge. Our knowledge of teens' lives online can inform how we design, facilitate, and model classroom instruction. In this paper, I summarize what current educational research on teens' use of the...

Bull et al. (2008) suggested several barriers to bridging informal learning and participation in the Web outside of school with learning in school settings. These constraints include specific learning objectives; time constraints; increase in...

This panel will provide a research-based overview of today’s learners. We will summarize a review of four years of research on how young people are using a range of interactive Web-based technologies for education, both formal and informal, and give ...