Transforming Teacher Education with Mobile Technologies

By Marie Brennan

Book Overview

An international, comparative overview of current thinking and research in the field of mobile learning and teacher education, with case studies from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Drawing together contributions from teachers and teacher educators engaged in a European project, the book investigates practices further afield and provides insight into research and cutting-edge pedagogical practice in teaching and teacher education using mobile learning. Students use personal technologies like their mobile phones, extensively and expect to be constantly connected and engaged in a networked world. It is imperative, therefore, that teachers keep pace with this ever-shifting landscape, and this is a challenge to those in the profession and more widely to teacher education which is tasked with preparing the next generation of teachers. This volume provides answers to these challenges, developing theoretical models and linking theory to practice. The volume also explores possible future developments in the field of mobile learning using the future scenario planning methodology developed by Snoek (2003), a tool and a process that enables teachers to generate new perspectives on the future using creativity and imagination.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135009563X
• ISBN13: 9781350095632
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"