Share Paper: Effective approaches to prepare future teachers for educational technology use

1. Jo Tondeur, Ghent University, Belgium
2. Natalie Pareja Roblin, Ghent University, Belgium
3. Johan van Braak, Ghent University, Belgium
4. Joke Voogt, Ghent University, Belgium
5. Sarah Prestridge, Griffith University, Belgium
6. Alona Forkosh-Baruch, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
7. Miri Shonfeld, Tel-Aviv University, United States
8. Merav Asaf, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
9. Maaike Heitink, Twente University, Netherlands
10. Liebet Verplanken, Ghent University, Belgium
11. Petra Fisser, SLO, Netherlands
12. Peter Albion, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Abstract: Teacher training institutions are expected to prepare preservice teachers to integrate technology into their educational practice. However, several studies suggest that technology is often underused by preservice (eg. Mouza et al., 2014). There is a discrepancy between what preservice teachers are taught and how teachers use technology in a classroom (Ottenbreit-Leftwich et al., 2010). Therefore, Koehler and Mishra (2009) argued that TTIs should not only focus on how to use technology but also how technology intersects with PCK. Further research reveals that technology should be infused into the entire curriculum (Tondeur et al., 2012). However, the adoption of integrated approaches ...