While the number of computers in the classroom continues to increase and tremendous support for technology integration exists in government, business, and academia, a major discrepancy exists between the level of technology use that is expected from the educators and the actual use and integration of technology in the classroom. However, effective technology integration in early childhood educa...

It has been only a little more than a decade since a professional consensus emerged concerning the need to formulate an alternative to industrial arts. Few question the importance of technology education, or the need for a new name to characterize the program area. Technology education, however, is at a critical juncture. What can be questioned is the ability of the profession to clearly articu...

These three journals, plus the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, constitute the primary publication outlets for work in the area of technology and teacher education. Many other journals, of course, publish papers on the topic, but these four publications are the only ones dedicated solely to the topic of technology and teacher edu...

This paper describes the authors' development of software to use the WWW for controls education. A tu-torial concept was developed for teaching controls to students through the use of Matlab, a popular computation and visualization software package. The Controls Tutorials for Matlab illustrate control system design and analysis and enable students to quickly use the knowledge presented to them....

The primary goal of this study is to explore and identify indicators of best practices in technology integration by the teacher education faculty at The University of Northern Colorado. This is a qualitative study involving seven teacher education faculty members who participated in the University’s federally funded grant, Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3). Interviews with f...

As a separate subject and a part of general education, technology education (TE) began to be offered to secondary students in Korea in 1970 under the name of kisul (literally, technology). While it has provided technological knowledge and capability, there have been issues and challenges in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. This paper presents a brief history along with the status...

This manuscript presents teaching and curriculum design for Information Technology classes. Today, students demand hands-on activities for the newest technologies. It is feasible to satisfy this appetite for exciting education by employing server virtualization technologies to teach advanced concepts with extensive hands-on assignments. Through utilization of virtualized servers, students are a...