Abstract
In the paper the course "Educational use of ICT" in initial education of information and communication technology teachers is presented. ICT teachers are facing challenges within school environment when working with students and teachers in cross-curricular teaching and learning. ICT teachers are change agents in enhancing interest and excitement in computer science in school environments enriching teaching and learning experiences. For effective pedagogical work ICT teacher needs professional knowledge with strong basis of content-specific knowledge and pedagogical, didactic and psychological knowledge. In the process of developing wisdom of practice ICT teachers are engaged in school and wider projects of ICT deployment in teaching and learning. The impact on students' and teachers' digital literacy and competences for learning and teaching with ICT depends on ICT teachers' creativity. The project based learning was implemented to foster creativity.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Latest Trends on Engineering Education - 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Education, EDUCATION'10, International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 417-421 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789604742028 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Event | 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Education, EDUCATION'10, International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies - Corfu Island, Greece Duration: 22 Jul 2010 → 24 Jul 2010 |
Other
Other | 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Education, EDUCATION'10, International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Corfu Island |
Period | 22/07/10 → 24/07/10 |
Keywords
- Creativity
- ICT assisted learning
- ICT teacher
- Initial education
- Multimodality
- Project based learning