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Universities struggle with ways to help better prepare pre-service teachers for the realities of teaching in today's schools. Professional organizations call on teacher preparation programs to increase the opportunities for teacher candidates to...

Pre-service elementary teachers experience initial technology integration instruction in an early methods class (IRED 320) that is blocked with the Language Arts methodology course (EDCI 300), allowing candidates to implement computer skills as they ...

The presentation will describe a classroom project that incorporated graphic organizers, differentiated instruction, and peer coaching in a computer-based activity. The project was designed for third graders and combined a computer lab activity to...

Social studies and technology are made for each other. Almost any software package or application can be integrated into the instruction of social studies concepts. The National Council of the Social Studies (NCSS) offers as one of its ten themes ...

This presentation will explore a Readers Theatre activity in a Language Arts methods class. Pre-service teachers worked collaboratively using information sources from a local living history museum (Vermilionville) to gather information about...

This presentation will describe a project implemented in an elementary social studies methods class that combined place-based learning with technology integration. The location of a living history museum named Vermilionville near the university...

Pre-service teachers gain concept mastery when technology is integrated with the constructivist teaching model. Fusing digital imagery and constructivist learning in a Language Arts methods course provides pre-service teachers with experiences that...

This brief paper will describe a professional development activity that led teachers to construct iMovies focused on content area scripts. In-service teachers were introduced to the concept of using digital images in a content area of their choice...

Teacher education candidates in elementary programs have difficulty understanding the thinking of children in the early grades as they encounter their formal learning of number concepts. To help these teacher candidates appreciate the types of...

Faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have developed and modified a program for elementary education majors to infuse technology into the methods courses that...

Teacher education candidates enrolled in the "Technology in the Classroom" course are introduced to problem based learning through a series of robotic challenges of increasing complexity. As candidates build and program robots with motors, touch...

Teacher education candidates enrolled in the "Technology in the Classroom" course apply facilitation strategies in a pedagogical lab as they teach a language arts iMovie unit. The movie making process creates a rich environment for publishing the...

Despite the growing popularity of robotics competitions such as FIRST LEGO League, robotics activities are typically not found in regular K-12 classrooms. We speculate that, among other reasons, limited adoption is due to the lack of empirical...

A teacher education program in a southern research/teaching university created a model pedagogical laboratory that focuses on technology integration. The pedagogical laboratory has been offering robotics programs to elementary and middle school...

Teacher education candidates enrolled in the "Technology in the Classroom" course learn and apply facilitation strategies in a pedagogical lab as they teach a robotics unit that applies mathematic knowledge and skills to elementary level students....

Researchers argue that teachers' beliefs are the final barrier that prevents technology integration. To affect change in teacher candidates' beliefs of technology integration, we created a pedagogical laboratory as well as a field experience program ...

Teacher candidates enrolled in a technology integration methods course facilitated student-centered lessons in a pedagogical laboratory as they taught a robotics or digital storytelling unit. We adopted a quantitative instrument to measure the...

Robotics has the potential to motivate student learning in mathematics, science, and engineering. However, existing robotics activities typically do not have a rich story context to motivate students; and more significantly, they do not often...

A teacher education program in a southern research/teaching university created a model pedagogical laboratory that focuses on technology integration. The pedagogical laboratory has been offering robotics and digital storytelling programs to...

Robotics has the potential to motivate student learning in mathematics, science, and engineering. However, existing robotics activities typically do not have a rich story context to motivate students; and more significantly, they do not often...