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TEACHER EDUCATORS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

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New Free Book by David Moursund

David Moursund has published a new, free book that will be of interest to many SIGTE members and other educators. The book is:

Moursund, D. G. (2008). Becoming more responsible for your education. Eugene, Oregon: Information Age Education.

It is written specifically for early teenagers, their parents, and their teachers. To access the book, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Education_for_Increasing_Expertise

That Website is written for educators, parents, and others interested in improving our education system. It contains links to both a PDF and a Microsoft Word version of the 85 page book.

In addition, it contains a discussion of the philosophy underlying the book. Quoting from the first part of the Website:

This document focuses on two major ideas for improving our educational system:

1. Facilitating students to take steadily increasing responsibility for their own education.

2. Emphasizing student learning for building expertise—the knowledge and skills to solve problems and accomplish tasks using their own physical and mental capabilities in conjunction with: A) contemporary tools designed to aid physical and mental capabilities; B) the physical and mental capabilities of other people; and C) the accumulated knowledge of the human race.

2008 SIGTE Research Award Winners Announced

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We've had so many of you contact us about this project! Above is the article. It contains some details about how the project rolls out. We also have created a web site with all of our teaching materials, etc. http://web.mac.com/teresa.foulger/iWeb/Innovations/Home.html
We really feel this project could work well for a school site whose teachers want to learn about all the Web 2.0 tools. It would make a wonderful professional development model.
Please, if you make use of any of the resources or ideas, let us know. We want to continue to grow the ideas out there!
Teresa, Mia-Kim, and Keith.

I’m very pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 SIGTE Research Award--Teresa Foulger, Mia Kim Williams, and Keith Wetzel ( Arizona State University). Please join us for their paper presentation at the SIGTE Research Award Paper Session on Wednesday, July 2nd, 10:30 am–11:30 am in the Grand Hyatt Crockett A/B Room.

Congratulations Teresa, Mia, and Keith!

Paper Title: Innovative Technologies, Small Groups, and a Wiki: A 21st Century Preservice Experience Founded on Collaboration

Abstract:
New technology tools available at the university level have made it possible to create learning environments that capitalize on the kinds teaching practices that support augmented conversations, sophisticated communication, and collaboration; yet, existing teaching models lag in their ability to take advantage of these possibilities. Three instructors of an educational technology course for preservice teachers wanted to explore the effects of a new project, the Innovations Mini-Teach, that allowed students to learn about many new and evolving technologies and their application to PreK-12 education by organizing themselves in ways that relied upon their collaborative abilities and a technology tool, the class Innovations Wiki. Student focus groups at the end of the semester sought to uncover the value of collaboration in students’ abilities to learn new technologies, the obstacles to collaboration, and how collaborative skills may affect use of innovations in students’ future teaching. Findings indicated this new approach to learning about innovative technologies was supported by small group collaboration, and that the class wiki supported whole class collaboration during the semester with the additional potential to provide students with opportunities to share after the semester ended. Most important, many students changed their views about themselves as learners of technology.

Looking forward to seeing you at NECC!

Arlene C. Borthwick, SIGTE President

You're invited to join the conversation to discuss this award-winning paper following the presentation at NECC 2008. Click on the "Discussion" tab at the top of the page to enter your comments or respond to other posts.

Posted 04-09-08
SIGTE is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships in the amount of up to $200 for graduate students to participate at the annual National Education Computing Conference. All teacher education graduate students are encouraged to apply. Award recipients will be recognized at the SIGTE Business Meeting on Monday, June 30 (4:45-6:15 p.m.). Special consideration will be given to applications where the applicant is first author on a presentation. Applications must be submitted on or before midnight of April 24th, 2008 to be considered.

Click here to apply.

Posted 02-05-08
The first JCTE podcast is available on the ISTE website at:
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/Podcasts/Podcasts.htm

This podcast is an interview with the authors of the JCTE article
entitled, "Cross-Validating Measures of Technology Integration: A
First Step Toward Examining Potential Relationships Between Technology
Integration and Student Achievement," by Robert Hancock, Gerald
Knezek, and Rhonda Christensen. This article can be found in Issue 24
Number 1 of the Journal of Computing in Teacher Education (JCTE).