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Technology in teacher education:

Some thoughts from the

Netherlands

Wilfried Admiraal | FIET Tarragona June 29. 2015

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Structure

• Overview international research (briefly)

• Teacher education (TEd) in The

Netherlands

• National research on technology in TEd

• Some examples from Leiden TEd

• Implications for Ted

• Implications for research

• Focus on teaching WITH technology, not

teaching technology

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Research on technology in TEd

State of the art

• Technical skills OK

• Media literacy should be improved

• Digital pedagogy should be improved

How to improve?

• Technology-infused courses instead of

stand-alone technology courses

• TPACK

• Possibilities to experiment in practice

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Primary education

Pre-vocational & lower grades Secondary education

Pre-vocational & Secondary education

4 years BA

4 years BA

3 years BA

1 year MA

1 year MA

2 years MA

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Technology in TEd The Netherlands

• Technology-infused courses

• Autonomy of teacher educators

• Focus on teaching practice

• Gap between school and university in: • Infrastructure

• Software

• Expectations

• Lack of attention for media literacy (cyber

bullying, reflective use of Internet)

• No assessment digital part, only pedagogy

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Good examples

1. Flipping the classroom / inverted learning

2. Use of quizzes (Socrative, Kahoot,

Quizstar, Snapshot)

3. Combination of 1 and 2

4. Adaptive teaching based on student test

scores (Languages, Maths)

5. Use of social media (Facebook groups)

6. Student presentations (VLE, Padlet,

Glogster, Website)

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Implications for TEd practice

• Professional development of teacher

educators

• Focus on teaching practice in school

• Align technology in school and universities

• Move away from digital competence, go to

digital pedagogy or good teaching?

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Implications for research

• Mobile technology

• Games and simulations

• Design studies in TEd

• Effect studies with effects in school practice

• Practice what you preach?