From faculty development to curriculum development: Assessing the Boston University PT3 program for preparing tomorrow’s teachers to use technology.
Year: 2004
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Introduction The U. S. Department of Education project “Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge” started in 1996 with the aim of preparing public schools and teachers to use educational technology at the beginning of the 21st Century. This project was based on four cornerstones (hardware, software, connectivity and training teachers). Many reports have evaluated this project, emphasizing the following points: access to technology in public schools, use of educational technology by teachers, and use of educational technology at Schools of Education [CEO (1997, 1999, 2000a, 2000b, 2001), OTA (1995), NCTAF (1996), NCATE (1997), ACE (1999), WBC (2000), NCES (2000) y NCREL (2001)]. Most reports conclude that schools have hardware, software and connectivity to Internet but teachers are not well prepared to use educational technology (Lara, 2003). This fact, plus Hussar’s estimation that the U.S. will need 2,5 million new teachers by 2010, (Hussar, 1994), pointed at Schools of Education as crucial elements in training tomorrow’s teachers. In order to aid them in improving training of tomorrow’s teachers, the US Department of Education started in 1999 a new initiative: Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3).
Authors: David Whittier, Sonia Lara
Institutions: Boston University, Universidad de Navarra
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1893219214