Editorial: Tutor, Tool, Tutee: A Vision Revisited

Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2009) pp. 89–94

Robert Taylor’s (1980a) book, The Computer in the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee, was a seminal work, bringing together essays written by a number of early pioneers in the field of educational computing. For the foreseeable future, computing...

Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 3 (2005) pp. 349–352

In 1968 Papert expressed the concern, republished in Tutor, Tool, Tutee in 1980, that often the phrase "technology and education" means "inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the old way." Two decades...

Topics: Mathematics, Educational Technology

Passing the Torch: In Appreciation of Jerry Willis

Glen Bull

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 4 (2001)

Jerry Willis was the founder and originator of the core concepts underlying both the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE). As computers found their way into K-12...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology

Dee Anna Willis: An Appreciation

Glen Bull; Gina Bull

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (2002) pp. 155–157

Editor's Comment: As SITE passed on the torch to a new editor of JTATE, it was felt that we should pause to honor the people who founded SITE and JTATE. In a previous issue we honored Jerry Willis for his contributions. Now we would like to honor...

Setting the Priorities: Electronic Scholarly Publishing

Jerry Willis; Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000) pp. 9–38

Three journals were dedicated to publishing scholarly and professional papers in the field of educational technology and teacher education at the beginning of the year 2000: * Journal of Computers in Teacher Education (JCTE). * Journal of...

Topics: Teachers, Computers, Educational Technology

The National Technology Leadership Coalition

Glen L. Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 4, No. 3 (2004) pp. 254–256

The National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC) was established by the teacher education associations representing science, mathematics, English, and social studies in concert with the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education ...

Topics: Leadership, Social Studies, Early Childhood Education, Networking Technologies, Information Communication Technologies

Professional Dialog and Best Practices

Lynn Bell; Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 1 (2005) pp. 1–4

Collective identification of best practices is another important mechanism for professional dialog. The second round of Technology Leadership Awards were presented in fall 2004. The CITE/JTATE Technology Leadership Awards were established to...

Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies, Leadership, Social Sciences, Learning Objects

Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education

Glen Bull; Joe Garofalo

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 4 (2002) pp. 530–555

The underpinnings of computer science were developed in university research centers. University researchers often shared and exchanged code as a way of learning new programming techniques. During that era, the majority of software was what might be...

Topics: Computer Sciences

Establishing Statewide K-12 Telecomputing Networks

Glen L. Bull

Machine-Mediated Learning Vol. 4, No. 2 (1994) pp. 229–50

Discusses the development of computing networks for elementary and secondary schools in Virginia and Texas. Highlights include establishing a statewide infrastructure; Internet access; distributed computing; instructional resources; the changing...

TPACK: A Framework for the CITE Journal

Glen Bull; Lynn Bell

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 2009) pp. 1–3

During the same era in which this concept was being articulated, several teacher educator content associations and educational technology associations formed a collaborative organization. The participating representatives possessed a common belief...

Dawn of a New Profession: Remembering SITE’s Founder

Glen Bull; Ann Thompson

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 4 (2018) pp. 519–526

SITE’s founder, Jerry Willis, was born in 1943. He died this year just prior to the thirtieth anniversary of the organization that he founded. Television, computers, and the Internet did not exist when Jerry was born. He was a visionary who saw the...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: PRESERVICE

Glen Bull; Roger Geyer

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 579–580

Commentary: Ubiquitous Computing Revisited— A New Perspective

Glen Bull; Joe Garofalo

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2006) pp. 271–274

In 2002 representatives from the teacher educator associations representing the core content areas (science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies) and educational technology met at the National Technology Leadership Retreat (NTLR) to...

Topics: Social Studies, Educational Technology, Leadership, Social Sciences

Beyond CAI: Computers, Language, and Persons with Mental Retardation

Glen L. Bull

Topics in Language Disorders Vol. 8, No. 4 (1988) pp. 55–76

This paper reviews learning characteristics and best intervention practices for the mentally retarded; research on the use of computer-assisted instruction to teach language skills; alternative models for computer use, such as expert systems and...

Digital Video and Teaching

Lynn Bell; Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 1–6

Because video can be created and watched on portable devices such as cell phones, its use is becoming casual and conversational. Among many of today’s youth it has become a primary form of communication. Although it is not always used in a...

The 2006 National Technology Leadership Summit

Glen L. Bull; Lynn Bell

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 3 (2006) pp. 302–305

The CITE Journal is one tangible activity of a cross-disciplinary consortium of associations, the National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC). Representatives from these associations meet at a summit each year with editors of educational...

Designing Art, Music and Animations

Glen Bull; Jo Watts; N. Rich Nguyen

(2021) pp. 4–185

This book was developed to accompany a parallel course, Designing Art, Music, and Animations. The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to creativity at the intersection of digital technology and the arts. It is the third iteration of...

Technology and Teacher Education: Past Practice and Recommended Direction

James M. Cooper; Glen L. Bull

Action in Teacher Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (1997) pp. 97–106

This paper reviews the current status of technology use in education, identifies future needs, and offers guidelines for meeting those needs. It notes that teacher educators who are comfortable with technology will graduate technological leaders for ...

Editorial: A Rationale for Incorporating Engineering Education Into the Teacher Education Curriculum

Glen Bull; Knezek Gerald; David Gibson

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (September 2009) pp. 222–225

Investment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has been identified by the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies as a pressing need. Although science and mathematics, and to a lesser extent, technology...

Editorial: Academic Communities and the Nature of Academic Discourse

Glen Bull; Debra Sprague; Lynn Bell

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 4 (2001)

In 1990 Jerry and Dee Anna Willis founded the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) to provide an academic home for those working to integrate educational technology into teacher education. The Journal of Technology and...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers

Fab@School: Children’s Engineering in the Elementary Classroom

Glen Bull; Shaunna Smith; Peggy Stearns

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3796–3798

This session will illustrate how Fab@School introduces students to the excitement and power of digital fabrication, empowering them to imagine, invent, collaborate and fabricate geometric structures, simple machines, pop-ups and other 3D products....

Preliminary Recommendations Regarding Preparation of Teachers and School Leaders to Use Learning Technologies

Glen Bull; J. Michael Spector; Kay Persichitte

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 1–9

A national symposium on the role of efficacy research in the development, adoption, and implementation of educational technology will take place in 2017. The Educational Technology Efficacy Research symposium represents the culmination of a year...

Make To Learn Animation Machines – The Art of Storytelling

Glen L. Bull; Sheila A. Cochran

(March 2019)

Preface: This illustrated book was developed to accompany makerspace workshops in which participants construct working models of the animation machines described in this book. The Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC), a division of...

Commentaries on Grand Challenges Preparing for the Technological Tipping Point

Glen Bull; Gina Bull; Joe Garofalo; Judi Harris

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 1 (2002) p. 73

A future in which every student has a portable wireless device is inevitable.

PrimaryAccess: Creating Digital Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom

Bill Ferster; Tom Hammond; Glen Bull

Social Education Vol. 70, No. 3 (April 2006) pp. 147–150

The authors have been working with teachers who are drawing upon various online resources to construct digital documentaries that explore some facet of history, such as Japanese American internment or the liberation of Western Europe during World...

Practitioner’s Guide to Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK): Rich Media Cases of Teacher Knowledge

Mark Hofer; Lynn Bell; Glen Bull

Practitioner’s Guide to Technology Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (TPACK) (2015) pp. 1–157

The goal of the TPACK Practitioners Guide is simple—to offer exemplary cases of technology integration efforts that result in curriculum-based student learning in each of the following nine content areas and grade level contexts:

An Introduction to Computational Thinking Through Art, Music, and Games

Glen Bull; Joe Garofalo; N. Rich Nguyen

(2019) pp. 1–107

An Introduction to Computational Thinking provides an introduction to design and creativity through use of a computer to create art and music. It also serves as an introduction to computational thinking – the art of developing a solution in a form...

Establishing a Peer Review System for Open-Source Educational CAD Models

Glen Bull; Ryan Novitski; Jason Trumble

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 2022) pp. 411–416

Since the advent of affordable fabrication technologies such as 3D printers, many schools have established maker spaces. The educational effectiveness of fabrication tools in K-12 maker spaces is facilitated by access to useful Computer-Assisted...

A User's Guide to the CITE Journal

Glen Bull; Jerry Willis; Lynn Bell

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000) pp. 4–8

This inaugural issue of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education ( CITE Journal ) appears online in Summer 2000. It is the result of an extended collaboration that began several years ago. In fact, the genesis of the Summer 2000 issue ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Training

Editorial: Scholarly Collaboration

Glen Bull; Lynn Bell; Niki Davis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 1 (2002) pp. 3–5

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) was established to provide a forum for scholarship, collaboration, and discussion about the use of technology in teacher education.

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology

Developing Web 2.0 Tools for Support of Historical Inquiry in Social Studies

Glen Bull; Thomas Hammond; Bill Ferster

Computers in the Schools Vol. 25, No. 3 (October 2008) pp. 275–287

Web 2.0 tools offer new possibilities for teaching and learning. PrimaryAccess is a Web 2.0 tool designed for K-12 history education. PrimaryAccess shares many of the characteristics of other Web 2.0 applications, but its educational focus makes it...

Using Hands-on Learning Modules to Address Challenging Concepts in Electricity and Magnetism

James Rutter; Nigel Standish; Glen Bull

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1510–1515

This project explores the use of hands-on learning modules to address common misconceptions in electricity and magnetism (E&M). Part of our research has demonstrated that there are common misconceptions with the abstract concepts of E&M, for example ...

Topics: Engineering Education

Integrating Word Processing into Language Intervention

Paula S. Cochran; Glen L. Bull

Topics in Language Disorders Vol. 11, No. 2 (1991) pp. 31–49

The article offers suggestions for using word processing as an intervention tool with language handicapped students from elementary to college levels. Examples are offered to speech/language clinicians for using word processing in both clinical and...

Editorial: Transmedia Publishing

Cohen Jonathan D.; Smolkin Laura; Bull Glen

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (September 2011) pp. 237–242

The CITE Journal was conceived as a scholarly publication that could transcend traditional boundaries. In contrast to previous print-based publications, an electronic journal offers the opportunities to incorporate sound, video, and interactive ...

Make To Learn – An Introduction to Design Through Making

Glen Bull; Joe Garofolo; James Rutter

(May 2019) pp. 1–108

Makerspaces found in schools, libraries, and community centers offer new opportunities for teaching and learning. Makerspaces provide tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and microelectronics that enable users to design and make almost anything....

What Journal Editors Wish Authors Knew About Academic Publishing

Richard Hartshorne; Richard E. Ferdig; Glen Bull

(Mar 25, 2021) pp. 1–117

Getting published in academic journals is not an easy task, even for experienced researchers. Authors may spend months or years working on a submission; when the work fails to reach its audience, the result is lost time and potentially millions of...

Key Research Questions for Information Technology in the Core Disciplines, Part 2

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Dina Rosen; Glen Bull

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 952–953

This symposium features presentations led by SITE Vice Presidents (VPs) from the disciplines of Science, Math, Social Studies, English and Early Childhood. The focus is on key research questions for information technology in the core disciplines....

Topics: Social Studies, Educational Technology, Early Childhood Education, Information Sciences, Social Sciences

National Technology Leadership Coalition TPACK Initiative: Illustrating TPACK through Video-based Teaching Cases

Mike Searson; David Slykhuis; John Lee; Mark Hofer; Glen Bull

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) p. 5095

SITE is collaborating with peer associations in the National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC) to develop video-based teaching cases illustrating effective use of TPACK. Participating associations developing pilot teaching cases include the...

Science Gains in an Engineering Unit using Digital Fabrication

Nigel Standish; David Slykhuis; Glen Bull; James Rutter

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1516–1522

The Laboratory School for Advanced Manufacturing was established as a bricks-and-mortar test bed by the University of Virginia in collaboration with the Albemarle and Charlottesville school systems to identify effective ways of connecting...

Topics: Engineering Education

Children’s Engineering and Computational Thinking

Manorama Talaiver; Irene Lee; Glen Bull; Alexander Repenning

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 58–61

Both Engineering and Computational Thinking are recognized as keys to economic success in our global knowledge society. How soon should these be introduced in schools? The Fab@School initiative provides elementary students with hands-on...

The Make to Learn Electric Motor Design Sequence

Glen Bull; Joe Garofalo; Michael Littman; Matthew Hoffman

International Journal of Designs for Learning Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jun 13, 2018) pp. 1–13

Make to Learn Invention Kits allow students to reconstruct working models of historic inventions. This design case describes the development of a series of Make to Learn Electric Motor Invention Kits that spans the time frame from development of the ...

Language: English

China: Education 2.0 Tour--Applications and Effects of Virtual Tour to International Communication in Educational Technology

Michael Searson; Glen Bull; Jie Chao; Jing Ma

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2393–2394

China: Education 2.0 Tour is a planned tour to China for communication in educational technology in 2009, and information technologies such as interactive maps, weblog and multimedia tutorial are applied to facilitate the tour, in order to increase...

Bits to Atoms: 21st Century Fabrication

Glen Bull; Bernard Robin; Ann Thompson; Michael Searson; Daniel Tillman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2676–2677

Working with a PBS affiliate, this project engaged students and teachers at four high schools in the US and one each in China and Australia to use digital video tools in conjunction with the Ken Burns documentary The War. Extensive professional...

Visual Representations of Periodic Motion

Nigel Standish; Peter Malcolm; Glen Bull; David Slykhuis; Eric Bredder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3061–3065

Using TPACK as a model for preservice teacher education, we have developed two in class activities for undergraduates that display periodic motion. First the use of paint flowing from a bucket that is suspended above craft paper as a pendulum. When...

What Teachers Need to Know About Technology-enabled Youth: Lessons From ITEST

David Gibson; Glen Bull; Colleen Kruger; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3216–3218

ITEST projects have generated knowledge about what teachers need to know and be able to do with technology. This skill set has become crucial to teach today’s technology-enabled youth. Technology-based teaching builds necessary skills and supports...

Linear Motor Laboratory

Glen Bull; Joe Garofalo; Michael Littman; Roger Sherman

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 2022) pp. 685–706

This paper describes use of a linear motor as a starting point for introducing related electricity and magnetism concepts. The Linear Motor Laboratory consists of a series of mechanisms and student learning activities centered around a...

SITE's Digital Fabrication Initative

Glen Bull; Gary Marks; Nick Sanham; Willy Kjellstrom

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) p. 1

Desktop manufacturing – personal digital fabrication – is bringing "revolutionary changes for manufacturers and consumers." SITE is leading the way to introduce students to the excitement and power of digital fabrication. In this session Nick Sanham ...

Make to Learn Animation Machines: Storytelling with Pictures (Chinese Translation)

Glen L. Bull; Shelia A. Cochran; Lynn Pechuekonis

(2019) pp. 1–24

从很多方面来说，《用图画讲故事》是用故事来讲故事。关于描述如何在课堂中实现创客教育理念下的实践活动，Glen Bull 以及 Sheila Cochran 运用 了大量讲故事的技巧。 In many ways, "telling stories with pictures" is telling stories with stories. About the practice of describing how to implement the concept of maker...

Reflections on Preparing Educators to Evaluate the Efficacy of Educational Technology: An Interview with Joseph South

Glen Bull; J. Michael Spector; Kay Persichitte; Ellen Meiers

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 11–16

Joseph South an educational researcher, technology consultant, and former director of the U.S. Office of Educational Technology provided oversight for development of the 2016 National Educational Technology Plan and the related Educational...

Children’s Engineering and Computational Thinking

Manorama Talaiver; Glen Bull; Steven Moore; Katherine Hayden

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 53–57

Both Engineering and Computational Thinking are recognized as keys to economic success in our global knowledge society. How soon should these be introduced in schools? The Fab@School initiative provides elementary students with hands-on...