All Annotations of Education Week: Learning to Teach With Technology[Preview]

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• infusing technology into subjects like math and science makes it easier for students—both college students training to become teachers, and children in K-12 schools—to absorb and retain what they have learned, as in the egg-in-the-bottle experiment.
• the standards require teacher-candidates to exhibit knowledge, skills, and dispositions that equip them to teach technology applications. Candidates also have to show they can use technology to support student learning of content.

• Joel Colbert, who heads the committee on innovation and technology, says the handbook seeks to make the point that stand-alone technology classes are now obsolete.

  
  

  “We are saying that’s not the way to integrate technology into teacher training, because each subject area uses technology differently,” Colbert says.