A common theme in a number of the investigations undertaken as part of Education.au’s Strategic ICT Advisory Service to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations was the need to ensure that pre-service teachers were provided with plenty of opportunities to learn about and use ICT in terms of both skills and pedagogy as part of their training.
This Hot TopICT report ‘ICT in pre-service teacher training‘ reflects this important theme and provides an overview of projects internationally, Australian-based research, and some Australian case studies.
It finds that:
The evidence presented in this paper strongly points to fundamental systemic flaws in the pre-service teacher education system in Australia in terms of developing teacher competence in embedding ICTs in pedagogy and practice.
Unless a radical approach is taken, it is unlikely that a grab bag of individual changes will make any real difference.
There are critical points of resistance to be overcome.
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