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 developing a personal and professional identity

Experiential life world

Streams [...]

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, 2006

Purpose of the Study

Outlines [...]

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 every discipline is messy, too — the canon, [...]