TED admin on November 6th, 2009

Today the Instructional Psychology & Technology department at Brigham Young University had the opportunity to host John Seely Brown, the first author of the now famous 1989 Educational Researcher article, “Situated Cognition.” It’s been 20 years since he, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid published that seminal article that has literally changed the way people think [...]

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craig.shepherd on February 8th, 2008

When: February 22
Time: 12:00 PM Central Time
Location: http://eddy.byu.edu/tedwag
The Teacher Education Division of AECT is hosting a monthly Web-based brown bag (WAG) to highlight continued research from the annual convention and to extend communication and collaboration. Dr. Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich of Indiana University will be our first presenter. At the annual convention in Anaheim CA, Dr. Ottenbreit-Leftwich [...]

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This paper is a follow-up to a continued line of research on the U.S. Department of Education’s Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Teach with Technology (PT3) initiatives. While previous papers and presentations have focused on various methods to transform teacher education courses, this presentation focuses solely on programmatic efforts that were designed to align technology integration [...]

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clif.mims on October 24th, 2007

Public perception and state/federal policy continue to have remarkable impacts on public education causing continuous change in the teacher education profession. This ripples through integrated patterns of practice in classrooms and, ultimately, affects change in public perception. A panel of teacher education leaders will address current issues that have the potential to drastically impact how [...]

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clif.mims on October 16th, 2007

This monthly feature is intended to spotlight quality work related to the field of teacher education. These features are not limited to members of TED or AECT, but are intended to showcase outstanding contributions made by anyone around the world. There are 2 types of spotlights.

Spotlight on Practice – Highlights the teaching strategies, ideas, [...]

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Thursday 10/12/06 11:45 AM – 12:45 AM – 1 Hour
by Clif Mims, University of Memphis; Leslie Hall, Washington State University; Laurie Brantley-Dias, Georgia State University; Bosede Aworuwa, Texas A&M University-Texarkana; Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Purdue University
Description: This symposium reviews themes, successes, and challenges from the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers To Use Technology (PT3) [...]

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craig.shepherd on December 2nd, 2005

Featured research papers will be a new type of research strand AECT will pilot in the Dallas conference in 2006. You may download a pdf document detailing this strand below.

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peter.rich on November 21st, 2005

I thought this fit under the especially important distinction of “stuff”. Stuff is actually an interesting concept, truth be told. Last year I conducted a number of interviews with some teachers about a technology intergration experience.

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Learning from PT3: Reshaping the Teacher Education Experience
The Teacher Education Division of AECT will be putting together the May/June 2006 issue of TechTrends entitled Learning from PT3: Reshaping the Teacher Education Experience. Members of TED will be conducting an analysis of PT3 Project Evaluations to try to understand more wholly what we have learned from [...]

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TED admin on October 12th, 2005

“Voices of the Past – Visions of the Future: Learning and Instructional Technologies for the 21st Century.”

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