An exploratory study: How early childhood preservice teachers construct their understanding of technology integration in a technology-infused social studies methods course
Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences
; 83(9-A):No Pagination Specified, 2022.
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in English
| APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-1929509
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Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the education technology narrative asserted that "New tools hold great promise for teaching and learning, but only when they are used effectively, appropriately and intentionally". In this dissertation, I explored how early childhood education teachers construct their understanding of technology integration in a technology-infused social studies methods course. The preservice teachers came into the course expressing their attitudes towards technology as positive, negative, or mixed. In addition, they articulated their self-perceptions of technology skill as confident, unconfident, or both confident and unconfident. As they continued in this technology infused methods course, they experienced technology as a way to understand, engage, explore/examine, reflect, collaborate/share, and extend their knowledge about social studies. As they experienced different technologies throughout the course, preservice teachers recognized technology as a space for building a community of learners to share and generate knowledge and build learner agency. They also identified technology as a multimodal tool to support learning that simulates realistic experiences, provides creative outlets, and expands opportunities for learning. The preservice teachers described engaging with technology passively, actively, and critically by noticing, extending, and evaluating technology. In their lesson plans, they conceptualized using technology with children in many of the same ways they engaged in technology in the course. Specifically, they created experiences that encouraged young children to explore/examine, collaborate/share, and extend their learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Attitudes towards technology; Experienced technology; Early childhood education; Technology integration; *Computer Assisted Instruction; *Education; *Preservice Teachers; *Social Studies Education; *Technology; Attitudes; Pandemics; School Learning; Educational Psychology [3500]; Human Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
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Databases of international organizations
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APA PsycInfo
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
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Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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