ERIC Number: EJ1363026
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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TPACK Leveraged: A Redesigned Online Educational Technology Course for STEM Preservice Teachers
Umutlu, Duygu
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v38 n3 p104-121 2022
Integration of computational thinking and programming into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes is needed to promote students' learning of twenty-first century skills. Yet, teachers are not equipped to achieve this integration successfully as teacher education curricula do not generally align with this need. With the COVID-19 outbreak, curricula also need to be adapted for online environments. This qualitative study presents the redesign of an educational technology course that introduces programming and computational thinking to STEM preservice teachers for online settings, and explores learning experiences of preservice teachers, in terms of how they combine technological knowledge with pedagogy and content. Data were collected from course artifacts, such as reading responses, coding challenges, and lesson designs and implementations. The findings showed the online course design was helpful in enhancing preservice STEM teachers' pedagogical approaches of how to teach computational thinking and programming. Offering hands-on coding practices in the course allowed preservice teachers to improve their technological knowledge (programming), and they were able to integrate their technological pedagogical knowledge into their content area and design meaningful lessons. The study offers implications for design of online teacher education courses that promote preservice teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge for computational thinking and programming.
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Lesson Plans, Preservice Teachers, Learning Experience, Instructional Design, Thinking Skills, Programming, STEM Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Technology, Educational Change, State Universities, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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