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Preservice Teachers' TPACK Growth after Technology Integration Courses in Early Childhood Education
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Boo Young Lim; Vickie E. Lake; Amber H. Beisly; Rae K. Ross-Lightfoot – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This mixed-methods study utilized the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework to examine surveys, reflections, focus groups, and lesson plans from 22 pre-service teachers (PSTs) participating in two technology-rich courses. Following the completion of these courses, the results indicated a notable…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Highlighting ECE Teachers' Proximal Processes as Designers: An Investigation of Teachers' Design Thinking Engagement, TPACK Efficacy, and Design Vitality
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Nanxi Chen; Huang-Yao Hong; Ching Sing Chai; Jyh-Chong Liang – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": This study incorporates teacher vitality, efficacy, and engagement with lesson design practice in which teachers can particularly encounter challenges from technology integration that calls for design thinking. Using a structural equation modeling approach, this study explores the relationships among teachers' design…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Instructional Design, Thinking Skills
Aladdin's Genie or Pandora's Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT
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Wenwei Luo; Huihua He; Jin Liu; Ilene R. Berson; Michael J. Berson; Yisu Zhou; Hui Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": This study aims to explore the optimal roles, pressing challenges, and future developments of ChatGPT in early childhood education (ECE) by interviewing six expert professors from China and the United States. A content analysis approach that combined inductive and deductive coding was employed to analyze the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
An Exploration of Early Childhood Teachers' Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Mainland China
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Luo, Wenwei; Berson, Ilene R.; Berson, Michael J.; Park, Sanghoon – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study aims to validate a scale highlighting the applicability of selected TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) domains of knowledge to early childhood education and to explore the internal relationships between TPACK's components in the Chinese context. A survey instrument was designed and administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Technological Literacy, Technology
Preservice Teachers Reconfiguring Teaching Young Children in a High-Stakes Early Education Context through the Use of iPads: A Case Study
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Brown, Christopher P.; Englehardt, Joanna – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: Having practicing or preservice early educators employing iPads and their apps as part of their practices with young children in high-stakes teaching contexts is a challenging process. The case study examined in this article further unpacks this complexity by investigating how incorporating iPads into their high-stakes field…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Educators, Educational Policy, Politics of Education