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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Writing/Teachers and Digital Technologies: Technology/Teacher Training - Anthony T. Atkins, Karios
In Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices, Patricia Sullivan and James Porter suggest that one of the "spaces" they wish to open for computers and writing research is "to encourage more study of the use of writing technologies in the workplace" (185). This web, I hope, initiates further discussion of not only technologies in the workplace, but specifically, how programs, departments, and universities implement those technologies for the training of new teachers. Here I present the results of a national survey conducted during 2003 and 2004. It is important to note here, however, that the survey only presents attitudes, opinions, and feelings on particular kinds of technology training. It is also important to point out that quite possibly things have already changed somewhat since 2003-2004. What I have learned here is that there are a wide range of possibilities for effective teacher training with technologies. For example, sometimes "tool-type" training is necessary and effective, when sometimes the training needs to be expanded into a pedagogical realm, meaning that tool-type training, to be effective, should train new teachers more about how to use technologies to teach writing well.
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