Effective integration of information and communications technology in teacher education

Information and communications technology facilities at the tertiary level education in some urban universities in Bangladesh

With the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. This study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the unive...

Toward a Theory of Negativity Teacher Education and Information and Communications Technology

Teachers are vulnerable to the technopositivist ideology that perpetuates a naive faith in the “promises” of technology. Most teachers have been denied opportunities to explore the motives, power, rewards, and sanctions associated with the unscrupulous marketing of information and communications technology (ICT) and tend to be uninformed about the research that has failed to find a positive rel...

Analysis of Technology Integration in Teacher Education in Ghana

Information Technology in French Education: implications for teacher education

This paper reports a longitudinal study (1992-1996) of the opinions and competencies in informatics of students enrolling at a French University institute for teacher training (IUFM). It showed a substantial increase in computer ownership, better knowledge of computer tools, higher levels of prior training (except in human sciences) and a global increase in students’ expectations of information...

Information Technology in French Education: Implications for Teacher Education

Within a few years, the situation of IT in the French educational system has evolved considerably. The front-line of innovation has moved towards technologies of communication such as the Internet. The teaching of informatics, once developed in senior secondary education has stopped and there is a tendency to consider IT as a global tool whose purpose seems to be to help producing documents rat...