Technology in Secondary Teacher Education

http://thejournal.com/articles/2001/09/01/technology-in-secondary-teacher-education.aspx

by Elizabeth M. Willis and Peggy Raines, Ph.D.


One of the early ideas is one that i found interesting in this article. It gave a list stating that teachers are just not aware of the tools they have. If i had not taken this calls i would have bee clueless to some of the great tools out there, googldocs.com is a wonderful tool that any teacher with the computers available to them could use to work technology in to any lesson that needs word processing or spreadsheets. And most of all it is a great collaborative work tool.
That is only half the battle we can find all the great tools out there we can, but then how will teachers not aware of systems like the NTeQ model, this tool lets us break down a lesson plan and see where it is best to put the technology use in and what it will be used for. The best thing you can do is find a tool you like, then think about its real use, is it for video, sound, text, collaboration, or research? once it is identified next time you required of of these type of media in a lesson use a technology source to teach the lesson. We need to move away from looking at the computer as a subject and more toward it as a learning tool.