Technology Integration with Preservice Teachers

[phbull_nccu]

It was clear from my initial research with Teaching Fellows that there seems to be a wide gap between technology integrated in classrooms and technology used by Teaching Fellows in social interaction. There was less technology integrated in courses compared with variety of technologies used by Teaching Fellows in social interaction.
As faculty and teachers, how can we bridge this integration gap?
Are we failing technology ready students by not teaching or preparing them on how to use technology in teaching?

[ralexand]

This was a very interesting presentation. I am trying each semester to integrate technology, but using a different approach for my pre-service teachers. The approach is to utilize a great deal of open source options and our driving question for the semester is...How do we provide the skills needed to for the 21st century learner? So we begin by looking at the digital learner and their characteristics and choose from an array of tools available. This is different from my past approach of having my students just create a PowerPoint around a lesson. It seems to be more meaningful to my students.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I plan on continuing to branch out.
Becky Alexander