Teacher Educators Moving from Learning the Office Package to Learning About Digital Natives' Use of ICT Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2428713, abstract = {This case study reports results from interactive research within the development project CompLETE, a Swedish project granted equivalent to USD 3 million, aimed at enhancing use of ICT in teacher education. The research project rationale is that teachers and teacher students belong to a different generation than K12 students; grown-ups are ” Digital Immigrants” while K12students are ” Digital Natives”. A problem is that teachers know about MS Office, which is expressed as a high priority to learn. Students are into a different culture that teachers know little about. Teachers believe in learning the Office package first, before learning about K12 student's use of ICT. New applications, such as chatting or podcasting, has to become part of the culture of teachers in order to teach students of the 21st Century. One conclusion is that relying on teachers participating through ” bottom-up processes” may not be sufficient for extensive changes in teachers' practice.}, address = {Vancouver, Canada}, author = {Karlsson, Mia}, booktitle = {Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007}, citeulike-article-id = {2428713}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25364}, editor = {Montgomerie, Craig and Seale, Jane}, keywords = {digital\_immigrants, digital\_natives, edutech, office}, month = {June}, pages = {100--107}, posted-at = {2008-02-26 08:15:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {AACE}, title = {Teacher Educators Moving from Learning the Office Package to Learning About Digital Natives' Use of ICT}, url = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25364}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2428713 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2428713 N2 - This case study reports results from interactive research within the development project CompLETE, a Swedish project granted equivalent to USD 3 million, aimed at enhancing use of ICT in teacher education. The research project rationale is that teachers and teacher students belong to a different generation than K12 students; grown-ups are “Digital Immigrants” while K12students are “Digital Natives”. A problem is that teachers know about MS Office, which is expressed as a high priority to learn. Students are into a different culture that teachers know little about. Teachers believe in learning the Office package first, before learning about K12 student’s use of ICT. New applications, such as chatting or podcasting, has to become part of the culture of teachers in order to teach students of the 21st Century. One conclusion is that relying on teachers participating through “bottom-up processes” may not be sufficient for extensive changes in teachers’ practice. AD - Vancouver, Canada EP - 107 TI - Teacher Educators Moving from Learning the Office Package to Learning About Digital Natives' Use of ICT PB - AACE T2 - Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 SP - 100 KW - digital_immigrants KW - digital_natives KW - edutech KW - office AU - Karlsson, Mia A2 - Montgomerie, Craig A2 - Seale, Jane PY - 2007/June// UR - http://go.editlib.org/p/25364 ER -