Case Studies of Future Teachers

Abstract

This longitudinal research study explores preservice teachers’ developing vision of technology in teaching and learning. Participants include eight teacher education students enrolled in one of three consecutive educational technology courses. Qualitative methods were used, to analyze data, and tentative assertions have emerged related to a developing vision of teaching with technology: expectations for teaching with technology perceived challenges of technology, questioning classroom uses of technology and the driving development of a technology-rich program by education students.

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Notes on contributors

Melissa E. Pierson

Melissa Pierson is an assistant professor in the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Houston. She teaches undergraduate and graduate instructional technology courses, and co-directed a PT3 grant project that restructured UH’s preservice technology courses and involved faculty in individualized technology instruction, co-authored the book Using Technology in the Classroom (2004), and is president of ISTE’s SIGTE.

Alysa Cozart

Alysa Cozart is a doctoral student in Instructional Technology and a former classroom teacher of middle grade students.