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Partnership Strategies for Systemic Integration of Technology in Teacher Education
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education(CITE)3:4, 2004

Kara Dawson & Colleen Swain, University of Florida, United States; Natalie Johnson, Iowa State University, United States; Gail Ring, University of Florida, United States

Less than a decade ago the majority of teacher education programs in the country offered stand-alone technology courses that focused primarily on technical skills and trouble-shooting strategies to prepare teachers to use technology (U.S. Congress,...

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Waking the Sleeping Giant: Social Studies Teacher Educators Collaborate to Integrate Technology into Methods’ Courses
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2000:1

John Lee & Cheryl Mason, University of Virginia, United States; David Hicks, Virginia Tech, United States; Kara Dawson, University of Florida, United States; Marsha Alibrandi, North Carolina State University, United States; Michael Berson, University of South Florida, United States; Rich Diem, University of Texas- San Antonio, United States; Tim Keiper, Western Washington, University, United States; Tony Dralle, University of Virginia, United States

This paper presents an overview of the efforts undertaken by a collaborative group of social studies teacher educators to identify and develop appropriate models of integrating technology into social studies teacher education. The goal of the...

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Evaluation ePortfolio DVD-ROM for Star Schools Engaged Learning Project
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2003:1

John Dawson & Beverly Rodgers, University of North Texas, United States; Sharon Baker, University of Tulsa, United States; Steve Nover, New Mexico School for the Deaf, Center for ASL/English Bilingual Education and Research, United States

Deaf children, as a group, have a history of low reading scores. With primary direction and impetus from the New Mexico school for the Deaf, twelve deaf schools are cooperating in a program intended to increase literacy among deaf children by...

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Technology Integration Potential of Physical World Hyperlinks for Teacher Preparation Programs
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2008:1

Becky Sue Parton, Robert Hancock, Willie Ennis & John Fulwiler, Southeastern Louisiana University, United States; John Dawson, Gee Whiz Community, United States

"Physical world hyperlinking" occurs when a tangible object is connected to an on-line resource. In Japan, 2D barcode camera phone scanning is a popular way to accomplish that process. A cell phone equipped with a camera takes a picture of the...

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Acquiring New Spatial Intuitions: Learning to Reason about Rotations
Cognitive Psychology (ISSN-0010-0285) 51:4

John R. Pani, Julia H. Chariker, Thomas E. Dawson & Nathan Johnson

There are certain simple rotations of objects that most people cannot reason about accurately. Reliable gaps in the understanding of a fundamental physical domain raise the question of how learning to reason in that domain might proceed. Using...

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