Upper secondary and vocational level teachers at social software     

Teemu Valtonen  Sini Kontkanen  Patrick Dillon  Jari Kukkonen  Pertti Väisänen 《Education and Information Technologies》2014,19(4):763-779

This study focuses on upper secondary and vocational level teachers as users of social software i.e. what software they use during their leisure and work and for what purposes they use software in teaching. The study is theorised within a technological pedagogical content knowledge framework, the emphasis is especially on technological knowledge and technological pedagogical knowledge. Four hundred thirty seven teachers were surveyed using an online questionnaire with Likert scaled statements and open-ended questions. Results suggest that the number of different types of social software actively used for teaching is small and that the potential of social software as a tool for supporting collaborative learning has not yet been realised. Discussion of the results is framed in the context of teachers’ developing technological pedagogical content knowledge.  相似文献   

Things Fall Apart and Come Together: Using the Visual for Reflection in Alternative Teacher Education Programmes     

Claudia Mitchell  David Dillon  Teresa Strong‐Wilson  Kathleen Pithouse  Faisal Islam  Kevin O’Connor 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2010,17(1):45-55

In this article, we focus on the use of the visual for reflection in ‘alternative’ pre‐service teacher education and, in particular, we address the question: How and what can we learn about teacher education using the visual? By way of illustration, we focus on the use of pre‐service teachers’ photographs in a public exhibition, participatory video documentary production and pre‐service teachers’ use of photographs in their professional teaching portfolios. The article draws from research done in relation to three alternative pre‐service teacher education projects based at McGill University in Canada and the University of KwaZulu‐Natal in South Africa.  相似文献