Challenges of information technology teacher education

Information Technology in French Education: implications for teacher education

This paper reports a longitudinal study (1992-1996) of the opinions and competencies in informatics of students enrolling at a French University institute for teacher training (IUFM). It showed a substantial increase in computer ownership, better knowledge of computer tools, higher levels of prior training (except in human sciences) and a global increase in students’ expectations of information...

Information Technology in French Education: Implications for Teacher Education

Within a few years, the situation of IT in the French educational system has evolved considerably. The front-line of innovation has moved towards technologies of communication such as the Internet. The teaching of informatics, once developed in senior secondary education has stopped and there is a tendency to consider IT as a global tool whose purpose seems to be to help producing documents rat...

Review of Challenges and Opportunities Health Information Technology-based Art Therapy in Education and Treatment

Networked Knowledge: Challenges for Teacher Education

Since 1990, the invention and popularization of the World Wide Web has caused an inversion in the information economy of education. Twenty years ago, when learners were set a task that required them to locate information about any but the most common topics, the challenge was most often to find relevant current information in the limited books and other resources available in the school, home o...

Cognitive Science Concepts and Technology Teacher Education

In the early 1990s, Johnson (1992a) stated that technology educators had shown little interest in cognitive science-based research which he observed was unfortunate because of the close alignment between many concepts in cognitive science and technology education. That may be less true today, but the disconnect between being aware of these concepts and/or terms and teaching students to be able ...