Bunga Ikasari

Pre-service training and ICT implementation in the classroom: ELT teachers’ perceptions Hicham Zyad International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), 2016, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 4-18. The paper has an objective to find out teacher’s perceptions of their training programs regarding the use of educational technology. The study also explores to what extent the teachers apply technology, as what they learned from the training programs they have carried out. The result of the study, as shown from the questionnaire, revealed that they didn’t really feel satisfied with the training program. They reported that the blend between technology and pedagogy was lacking. The majority of the participants said that they were not introduced nor given examples on how to use ICT to achieve pedagogical goals in the classrooms. The modeling teachers didn’t give teaching demo integrating the use of ICT over the training period. Asses...

Pre-service teachers’ perceptions on TPACK Development after Designing Educational games Hatice Sancar Tokmaka Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2014.939611 Computer games are very popular among young learners. Modern educational policies expect that Early Childhood Education (ECE) pre-service teachers bring technology integration skills to their teaching and learning process. Haktanır (2008) has pointed out that ECE educators should bear responsibility for pre-service teachers’ competencies using Information and communication technologies (ICT) when teaching. Such skills are the main concerns of TPACK – technological, pedagogical, content knowledge – which Mishra and Kohler (2006) have described as an emergent form of the three knowledge types, technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge focused around teachers’ technology integration skills. For this reason, the author held a qualitative case study aimed to investigate Early Child...