Chapter 12: Learning to Teach with Technology: Designing and Implementing Technology-enhanced Curriculum During Teacher Preparation

Since teacher educators are obligated to support pre-service teachers’ efforts to meet National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, rethinking how technology is integrated into university coursework is essential. While acknowledging this commitment, sound advice has been offered to teaching methods faculty. First, consider how technology enables teachers and their students to extend the learning beyond what could be done without technology, thus rendering technology to a supporting, rather than a driving role. Second, allow individual content, area standards rather than technology standards to be the modus operandi, bleeding these recommendations, this chapter explores two questions. What experiences develop pre-service teachers’ understanding of the supporting role of technology in a standards-based curriculum? How do such experiences prepare pre-service teachers for the work of designing instructional tasks that integrate technologies to maximize student learning?