Describes the Technology Leadership Academy (University of Texas at Austin) whose mission is to develop a learning community among teacher preparation programs to improve technology integration. Explains the academy's development, which was part of a grant from the Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers To Use Technology…

Discusses effective professional development in education and describes a frame for professional development in the context of teaching with technology. Explains the use of PLATE (Plan for Learning And Teaching with Educational Technology) for a higher education faculty in a teacher education program and discusses the impact on students. (LRW)

Reviews the evolving content and methods of technology training in teacher education from the 1920s to the present. Highlights include the effect of computer technology; teacher use versus student use of technology; and the need to teach how to use and integrate traditional media in classroom instruction as well as computer media. (LRW)

Investigates the integration of technology into K-16 mathematics classes. Highlights include the Teacher Training with Teams, Themes and Technology (T5) Project; examples of classroom activities; and recommendations for student-controlled learning so they have input into how they use the technology. (LRW)

Discusses the value of mentoring to help African-American education students taking educational media and technology classes to have more confidence in their abilities to integrate technology into the classroom. Highlights include students' prior use of technology; and modeling the use of technology, including acknowledging their anxiety and…

Provides an overview of the development of ICT (information and communication technology) in Chinese schools. Topics include hardware; infrastructures; educational resources; teacher training and support; organizational culture in schools; practical uses of ICT in schools, including ICT integration; and future possibilities. (LRW)

Describes two pilot programs at the University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL) that connect instructional technology into the teacher education program: one uses technology in a community-based learning environment to improve preservice elementary teachers' science education preparation; the second involves a learning community of students…

This study examined: the effectiveness of Practicum Plus professional development classes in preparing mentor teachers and their university practicum students to create a curriculum unit of practice in their K-8 classrooms; and how mentor teachers and practicum students used the cohort electronic mailing list to support the community of learners.…

Describes the evolution of preservice teacher technology courses at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO). Highlights include technology integration; student teaching requirements; student attitudes about technology; revised curricula that include state and professional organization technology standards, performance-based assessments,…

Discusses the need for elementary and secondary school teachers to integrate technology into the classroom and explains the University of Missouri's (Columbia, MO) technology-focused development program, the Technology Learning Cycle (TLC), for faculty who teach undergraduate teacher methods courses. Examines the application of the TLC to two…

Discusses problems with integrating information and communication technology in education and describes a tool developed by the Curriculum Information Technology Integration Project in Manitoba to save teachers time and make it easier for technology integration. Highlights include planning; preparation of classroom materials; professional…