Thank you for sharing you experince. I visited your blog Crafts, technology and design. I wonder in which department did preservice teachers take this course? You mentioned that this course was given in Department of Teacher Education but do teachers in all disciplines take this course or is there are special discipline called Crafts and technology teacher program under the Department of Teacher Education?
Thank you for your explanation, I have one more question, when these students graduate from Crafts, technology and design department how they have employed in schools? What is the context of their jobs? Do they teach a technology cirriculum?
The Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative has funded various efforts to improve and enhance the technology preparation of preservice teachers. At Arizona State University, these efforts have focused on providing preservice teachers with opportunities to develop, implement, and evaluate their own instructional activities that utilize technology effectively and appropriately in authentic situations, to give them the myriad of tools necessary to integrate technology into teaching and learning activities. This paper focuses on the integration of these efforts into the field-based elementary education program, and discusses our formative evaluation of the field-based technology integration model, through the following questions: What are the preliminary successes of the model with regard to student perceptions, attitudes, and integration of technology into instructional activities? and What components of the model require additions or modifications?
Brush, T., Glazewski, K., Rutowski, K., Berg, K., Stromfors, C., Van-Nest, M. H., Stock, L.,& Sutton, J., 2003.Integrating technology in a field-based teacher training program: The PT3@ASU project. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51(1), 57-72. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02504518?LI=true#