The Multiple Ways Technology Supports Pre-service Teacher Education: A Foray into Multimedia Literacies

James King, Jenifer J. Schneider, Deborah Kozdras, Vanessa Minick, James Welsh, Roger Brindley, Mary V. F. Feger, Antionette Kirby, Jenifer Jasinski Schneider

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss what happens when multimedia-technologies and new literacies are integrated into teacher-education literacy methods courses. Within two linked methods courses, in which pre-service teachers tutored elementary students, we examined situated, technology-related behaviors and how these behaviors impacted pre-service teachers' learning and instructional practices. Using the constant-comparative method, we identified seven patterns in the data related to ways in which the meanings of technology-related behaviors must be negotiated between users and teachers.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Reading Education
Volume38
StatePublished - Apr 1 2013

Keywords

  • student teachers
  • teacher education
  • multimedia systems in education
  • elementary education
  • comparative studies
  • data analysis

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