How to Use Technology to Support Teacher Education?
Technology can be an effective tool for teacher education as it is often conducive to creating more versatile teaching, studying, and learning environments. Online technologies can be used to support professional communities for teachers. Multimedia and mobile technologies can be used to help teachers observe in more focused ways exemplary practices. Videos can be used by the teachers themselves to more carefully examine and reflect on their teaching practices. Videoconference systems with remote control make it possible for language trainees to observe lessons at a distance or receive guidance from a distant teacher, thus enhancing real-time and on-line communication between teachers, teacher educators, and students. Technology tools can also be used to help pre-service teachers connect with real classrooms. In this special issue, Aaron Doering and Richard Beach report their experiences using a variety of technologies to support teachers’ acquisition of literacy practices. Connecting
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