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There are many sources of professional development for K-6 teachers that help them learn how to use computers, but much less is available on how to use computers in classrooms to enhance learning. Members of the Department of Science and...

Members of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia have developed a range of multimedia resources for undergraduate education students that allow the students to participate in authentic tasks ...

Whole class or large group activities using learning technologies can be difficult when IT resources are scarce or in high demand. In response to this challenge creative 'no tech' teaching activities are used that powerfully explore concepts and...

Teachers take on a wide range of roles in a school, yet most teacher education courses prepare students for only the role of classroom teacher. A problem based learning approach to teaching and learning and IT-based resources in a technology-rich...

This paper discusses the Information Technology (IT) skills that are developed in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Students graduating from this degree will be K-6 (also known as primary or...

This paper will explore the ways one Faculty of Education has approached the challenge of increasing the uses, in particular the more advanced uses, of information technology (IT) to support teaching through the professional development (PD) of...

The rich educational resource Teaching & Learning about Decimals has been developed as a CD-ROM to support pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development. This educational resource is one outcome of cutting edge mathematics...

Early proponents of computer-mediated communication (CMC) argued that equitable forms of communication could be achieved using online learning environments. However, subsequent feminist research into the use of CMC suggested that the same gender...

The study analysed the utility of data from logging response times of students on a computerised basic mathematics test to monitor cognitive progress of a group of pre-service teacher education students over a semester. The results suggest that the...