SITE

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education

English Education…Teachers Teaching Teachers

Filed Under: English/Lang. Arts, Teacher Ed Council By

For the past two years, the U.S. Congress has funded research through the National Writing Project (NWP) on effective methods of integrating newer technologies into best practices in English language arts/literacy education. Five NWP sites (New York City WP, Alaska WP, Bay Area [CA] WP, West Virginia WP, and my own Red Cedar [Michigan State University] WP) have served as "lead sites." … [Read more...]

Digital Storytelling: Beginning the conversation

Filed Under: Digital Storytelling, IT Council By

The Digital Storytelling strand, introduced at the last SITE conference in Orlando, had a very positive reception. The participants in this strand pioneered another innovation – they used a pilot blog to discuss Digital Storytelling prior to the conference. That discussion proved to be such a good idea that SITE is now establishing a permanent blog for all SITE members. The Digital Storytelling committee is now establishing this strand as a permanent home for dialog for discussion related to … [Read more...]

Discourse on technology in social education

Filed Under: Social Studies Ed., Teacher Ed Council By

For the last six years, CITE Journal Social Studies has published research and scholarship on social studies and technology including periodic commentaries on published articles. Given our success with the commentaries, we would like to extend our journal-related discourse to an even wider audience and will publish an editorial in CITE Journal Social Studies calling for more robust discourse on scholarly issues and published research in social studies. … [Read more...]

UNESCO to coordinate e-learning: SITE supports

Filed Under: Advocacy, Consultative Council, Equity & Social Justice, International Ed. By

With support from SITE I attended the UNESCO consultation on e-learning in October and I was present when we voted for UNESCO to become co-ordinators for this action line from the World Summit on the Information Society. The discussions raised many issues including the ciritical success factor of ICT teacher education - our focus! Hopefully we can advocate for more action e.g. through SITE's OSDE award. … [Read more...]

SITE  2023 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana March 13-17.  More Info>

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