CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Saturday
10:00 — 11:30 Session G.9
Preservice Teachers and Technology Issues
RB 112
John Walter, moderator
Deb Brown and David Elias
The Technological Professionalization of Preservice Secondary
Education Teachers
Among the critical issues that teachers and teacher educators
face is the issue of effective and appropriate uses of technology.
Although much attention has been given to practical and ethical
questions related to students using computers, less attention has
been paid to the use of computers in teacher education, specifically
in the professionalization of new teachers. The effects of this political
discussion enabled some students to reflect critically on the inevitability
of political content in the teaching of writing, the political and politicizing
nature of professional discourse, and the political opportunities and
pitfalls of the rhetoric of email.
Beatrice Smith
Preservice Secondary Education Majors and Discipline-Based
Electronic Literacy Development
Even though the theory and practice of teaching reading and writing
in the disciplines have become requirements for teacher certification
in many states, it is the case that while preservice teachers are experts
in their disciplines, many fail to appreciate their roles as experts in the
literacy development of their students. This presentation focuses on the
ways in which secondary education majors from across the disciplines
are offered experiential learning using computer-assisted contexts in
high schools as a way of involving them in instruction. This presentation
discusses reactions and reflections about using electronic presence as
a component to teaching literacy across the disciplines.
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