Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration

Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 378

ISBN13: 9781466629882|ISBN10: 1466629886|EISBN13: 9781466629899

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2988-2

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With advancements in technology continuing to influence all areas of society, students in current classrooms have a different understanding and perspective of learning than the educational system has been designed to teach.

Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration highlights the emerging digital age, its complex transformation of the current educational system, and the integration of educational technologies into teaching strategies. This book offers best practices in the process of incorporating learning technologies into instruction and is an essential resource for academicians, professionals, educational researchers in education and educational-related fields.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Pedagogical and Technological Considerations Designing Collaborative Learning Using Educational Technologies (pages 1-27)

Karen Skibba, Danyelle Moore, Jennifer H. Herman

Digital educational technologies can be used by instructors to help students create collaborative knowledge in the higher education classroom. This chapter describes six case studies, based on a mixed-methods research approach, that...

Chapter 2

Integrating Technology in Teacher Education Programs (pages 28-43)

James N. Oigara

This chapter discusses technology integration in teacher education programs. Although opportunities for technology training have become more available to prospective teachers, it is evident that successful technology integration...

Chapter 3

Increasing Student Engagement and Extending the Walls of the Classroom with Emerging Technologies (pages 44-60)

Thomas G Wangler, Ellen M Ziliak

Some tend to view the use of technology as the panacea people have all been waiting for, and yet, if a piece of software or technology is not used properly, it can amount to little more than a high-tech pedagogical placebo. It is...

Chapter 4

Technology Expanding Horizons in Teacher Education: Transformative Learning Experiences (pages 61-79)

Darrell Hucks, Matthew Ragan

The purpose of this exploratory action research study was to examine how the modeling by instructors of technology integration would affect the quality of the lessons that elementary teacher-education students designed and taught in...

Chapter 5

A State of the Art Cart: Visual Arts and Technology Integration in Teacher Education (pages 80-104)

Valerie Nguyen, Mark Szymanski

This chapter examines research that characterizes the complexity of teaching and integrating visual arts in K-12 education. Issues include teachers’ previous experience and backgrounds in art, their differing development of...

Chapter 6

Media and Technology Integration through Media Literacy Education (pages 105-128)

Theresa A. Redmond

This chapter reports case study research that investigated teachers’ use of media and technology in a seventh grade media literacy class. The purpose of this study was to learn what media and technology were used in teaching practice...

Chapter 7

Librarians’ Roles in Informatics to Support Classroom Incorporation of Technology (pages 129-147)

Lesley S. J. Farmer

Informatics, particularly as applied to K12 settings, has received little systematic attention worldwide, although the field itself is growing due to the impact of technology and information advances. Too often, informatics has been...

Chapter 8

Employing Emerging Technologies in Educational Settings: Issues and Challenges (pages 148-162)

Ajlan M. Alshehri

This chapter aims to enrich knowledge and open discussion towards employing the emerging technologies in educational settings particularly in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia. To shed light on this topic, the chapter...

Chapter 9

Internet Technology Levels in a Higher Education Teaching and Learning Environment: Discriminant Function Analysis Approach (pages 163-177)

John K. Rugutt, Lucille L. T. Eckrich, Caroline C. Chemosit

The authors of this study utilized the discriminant function analysis using extreme student groups (top and bottom quartiles) defined by students’ internet technology scores to develop a model that best predicts group membership of...

Chapter 10

Integration of the Computer Games into Early Childhood Education Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching (pages 178-196)

Hatice Sancar Tokmak, Lutfi Incikabi

Mathematics experiences in the early years of education can help children be more prepared for the future. Mathematics is known to be one of the most difficult learning areas. Computer games in today’s technological world seem to...

Chapter 11

A Case Study in Online Delivery: Boarding the Bullet Train to an Online Music Degree (pages 197-216)

Beth Gigante Klingenstein, Sara Hagen

This case study explores the journey that allowed the music faculty at a small public university in North Dakota to create a groundbreaking undergraduate online music major. The narrative travels from resistance to acceptance and...

Chapter 12

Using Social Media to Enhance Instruction in Higher Education (pages 217-241)

Bethany K. B. Fleck, Aaron S. Richmond, Heather D. Hussey

This chapter informs readers on ways to integrate social media into the college classroom. Preexisting and relevant research is reviewed including suggested practices, efficacy of use, and data supporting the teaching methods...

Chapter 13

A TPACK Course for Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Technology Integration Competencies: From Design and Application to Evaluation (pages 242-269)

Isil Kabakci Yurdakul, H. Ferhan Odabasi, Y. Levent Sahin, Ahmet N. Coklar

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is one of the technology integration models that focuses on effective technology integration related to teacher competencies. This model is based on the interaction and combination...

Chapter 14

Changing the Face of ELA Classrooms: A Case Study of TPACK Professional Development (pages 270-287)

Dianna L. Newman, Victoria C. Coyle, Lori A. McKenna

This chapter looks at the delivery of professional development on technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), designed to increase teachers’ abilities to integrate technology into ELA curriculum. Using TPACK and 21st century...

Chapter 15

Integrating Technology into Mathematics Teaching: A TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, Content Knowledge)-Based Course Design for College Students (pages 288-303)

Lutfi Incikabi, Hatice Sancar Tokmak

The relationships between content, pedagogy, and technology are important for teaching, yet complex for teachers. The idea of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) has emerged in the educational technology field...

Chapter 16

Privacy and Identity Management in Social Media: Driving Factors for Identity Hiding (pages 304-320)

Simone Smala, Saleh Al-Shehri

Social networking media are becoming more widespread as educational learning sites. For this reason, it is important to investigate how concerns about identity management can interfere with or influence the planned learning...

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