Effects of Keyboarding/Typewriting on the Language Arts Skills of Elementary School Students

Arlene Grambo Borthwick

Forty-one research studies completed between 1929 and 1983 investigated the effects of typewriting on the development of children's language arts skills. Information about each of the studies was entered in a Lotus 1-2-3 database containing 43...

Meeting NCATE Standards for Technology Integration: Survey Results of Technology Integration in an Elementary Education MAT Program

Arlene Borthwick; Cindy Anderson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1492–1493

This article is a report on findings of a survey that was given as a pre- and post-test of an introductory technology in education course. Introduction to Technology in Education was integrated into two other courses. In general, students...

Topics: Computers, Educational Technology

Framing the Assessment of Educational Technology Professional Development in a Culture of Learning

Melissa Pierson; Arlene Borthwick

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 4 (2010) pp. 126–131

Assessing the effectiveness of educational technology professional development (ETPD) must go beyond obtaining feedback from participants about their level of satisfaction with a workshop presenter. Effective and meaningful assessment of ETPD...

Feedback Session on Proposed National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Technology Facilitators and Leaders

Arlene Borthwick; Sheryl Abshire; Kathy Hayden

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1776–1777

Join fellow technology leaders for a presentation and discussion of the proposed revisions to the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Technology Facilitators (TF) and Technology Leaders (TL). Revisions include the addition of...

Our Own Tower of Babel: Describing Instructional Technology or Educational Technology Doctoral Programs

Arlene Borthwick; Marianne Handler; Diane McGrath

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) p. 2281

Many of us who teach those who will become tomorrow's professors have not found a way to clearly share what we do and find out what others are doing in their doctoral programs. Information the authors gathered about a variety of educational...

Topics: Educational Technology

No Teacher Left Behind: Professional Development in Instructional Technologies in an Age of Accountability

Rob Bowe; Arlene Borthwick; Melissa Pierson; Cathy Risberg; Linda Tafel

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1334–1338

With the rapid growth of IT use by classroom teachers, a number of theoretical models have emerged to describe the levels at which teachers progress when learning to teach with technology. These models deal with many important outcomes of...

Designing Online Instruction: Analyzing the Process, Product, and Implementation

Arlene C. Borthwick; Constance L. Cassity; Kate E. Zilla

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2002 (April 2002)

This study examined the initial transition to an online learning environment by college of education faculty and staff at a university in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Using a case study approach, the planning, development, and implementation of a...

Commentary: Response of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to “An Interview With Joseph South” Regarding the Preparation of Educators to Evaluate the Efficacy of Educational Technology

Charles B. Hodges; Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Arlene C. Borthwick

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 17–23

This commentary is a response by members of the AACTE Committee on Innovation and Technology to the remarks by Dr. Joseph South, former Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, regarding the preparation of...

Exploring Essential Conditions: A Commentary on Bull et al. (2008)

Arlene Borthwick; Randall Hansen; Lucy Gray; Irina Ziemann

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 195–201

The editorial by Bull et al. (2008) on connections between informal and formal learning made explicit one element of solving what Koehler and Mishra (2008) termed a "wicked problem.” This wicked (complex, ill-structured) problem involves working...

A Diagnostic Tool to Help Leaders Develop TPACK Ready Teacher Preparation Programs

Jeffrey Carpenter; Kevin Graziano; Arlene Borthwick; Teresa DeBacker; Elizabeth Finsness

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2802–2805

College administrators must play a key role in the successful transformation of educator preparation. This presentation addresses the development and use of a diagnostic tool designed for leaders and leadership teams implementing initiatives related ...

Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Meeting Changing Standards: Preparing the new NCATE/ISTE SPA report

Marianne Handler; Priscilla Norton; Borthwick Arlene; Teresa Franklin; Toni Stokes Jones; Debra Sprague

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 844–845

The new NCATE Institution and SPA (specialized professional association) standards require a new and different approach to familiar content. Even for those institutions that have previously submitted a review Folio, the approach to the new Program...

Topics: Standards

Teacher education faculty perspectives on technology infusion: Implications for schools and colleges of education

Jon Clausen; David Rutledge; Arlene Borthwick; Teresa Foulger; Kiersten Green; Guy Trainin; Natalie Milman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 933–937

Technology infusion within teacher education programs is a complex process. Colleges and schools of education have been challenged to do more in order to prepare candidates to use technology effectively for learning and teaching; however,...

Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation, Technology Policy and Practice

Building Learning Communities to Increase Faculty and Preservice Teacher Use of Technology

Arlene C. Borthwick; Melissa E. Pierson; Cindy L. Anderson; Joyce L. Morris; Sandra A. Lathem; Holly Buckland Parker

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 21, No. 1 (2004) pp. 23–32

Effective learning communities connect members so that they can share knowledge and experience. This article examines the process and outcomes of building learning communities to increase faculty and preservice teacher use of technology through PT...

A Revised Replication Study Typology and A Call for Participation: Replication Studies involving Technology and Teacher Education

Natalie Milman; Rhonda Christensen; J. Michael Spector; Robert Branch; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Charles Hodges; Arlene Borthwick; Melanie Shoffner; Gerald Knezek; David Rutledge; Meghan Manfra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1115–1119

In this session panelists will define what replication studies are, explain why they are needed, and invite researchers to conduct multi-site replication studies of technology and teacher education using common methods and measures. Additionally,...

Topics: Research & Evaluation

Action Steps for Systemically Advancing Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation Programs

Kevin J. Graziano; Teresa S. Foulger; Arlene C. Borthwick; Jon M. Clausen; Julie A. Moore; Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Debra Sprague

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 451–458

Every new PK-12 teacher should learn how to select and use the most appropriate technology tools so they can become proficient in teaching with technology upon entry into the field. The 2017 United States Department of Education National Educational ...

Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership