March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
Reflective Digital Media in Teacher Education Timo Portimojarvi, University of Tampere, Finland Developing curriculum of teacher education Cultural view of curriculum and profession Historical, cultural, and political objectives Teachers are social and cultural actors The development of the curriculum is a practice-based research process Three-level curriculum model Personal level – autobiographical and individual process of [...]
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March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin, [...]
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March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
Thinking Creatively: Teachers as Designers of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content (TPACK) Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University Three points to the refrain Teaching with technology is a wicked problem Wicked problems need creative solutions Teachers want to create solutions Teaching It is messy: Teaching is always “about something” — the content Yet [...]
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