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Keith Johnston
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Practice What You Preach: Initial Teacher Education In ICT
Keith Johnston; Catherine Bruen
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3095–3102
Teacher education in the use of ICT (Information & Communication Technology) is at the corner stone of any possible strategy to establish and improve the use of ICT in primary and post-primary education. This paper is written in the context of...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Communication, Information Communication Technologies
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An Investigation of Student-Teachers’ Use of Social Networks and their Perceptions of Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Ann FitzGibbon; Elizabeth Oldham; Keith Johnston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 788–795
This paper explores student-teachers' use of social networks, specifically Bebo and MySpace. It investigates whether student-teachers' use, or level of use, of these applications is related to their views of the potential of technology for teaching...
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Are Irish Student-Teachers Prepared to be Agents of Change in using IT in Education?
Ann FitzGibbon; Elizabeth Oldham; Keith Johnston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1397–1404
This paper explores student-teachers' use of social networks, video-sharing websites and MUVEs (specifically Second Life). In seeking to find if student-teachers' activities in this respect prepare them to be agents of change in the education system,...
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Ubiquitous devices – a preparation for student-teachers’ use of technology for teaching and learning?
Elizabeth Oldham; Ann FitzGibbon; Keith Johnston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1524–1531
Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between student-teachers' awareness and experience of technology, both formally and informally, and their vision of its potential for teaching and learning. It addresses whether high familiarity with...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Students
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Enacting Key Skills-Based Curricula in Secondary Education: Lessons from a Technology-Mediated, Group-Based Learning Initiative
Keith Johnston; Claire Conneely; Damian Murchan; Brendan Tangney
Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 24, No. 4 (2015) pp. 423–442
Bridge21 is an innovative approach to learning for secondary education that was originally conceptualised as part of a social outreach intervention in the authors' third-level institution whereby participants attended workshops at a dedicated...
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Have Irish Pre-Service Teachers Crossed the Digital Divide?
Keith Johnston; Ann FitzGibbon; Elizabeth Oldham; Aidan Seery
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1651–1658
For many years there has been a perception that people entering the teaching profession in Ireland were less "techy" than many of their college counterparts. If this is still true, it has worrying implications for the use of technology in schools...
Topics: Schools, Digital Divide, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Students
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21 Century Learning –Teachers’ and Students’ Experiences and Views of the Bridge21 Approach within Mainstream Education
Claire Conneely; Damian Murchan; Brendan Tangney; Keith Johnston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 5125–5132
Bridge21 is an innovative approach to learning for secondary education that is team and project based and that takes place in a technology mediated environment. This paper reports on the current expansion of the Bridge21 project to mainstream...
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Factors Influencing Pre-Service Teachers' Use of Technology on School Placement - Mind the Gap
Alison Egan; Ann FitzGibbon; Keith Johnston; Elizabeth Oldham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1435–1440
This study explores the factors that influenced two groups of pre-service teachers' use of technology during their school placement experience, as part of their College of Education course. The study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed method...
Topics: International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Professional Use of Technology on School Placement - an Irish study
Alison Egan; Ann FitzGibbon; Keith Johnston; Elizabeth Oldham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2287–2294
This paper reports on one aspect of a larger study, namely the use made of technology by pre-service teachers in their school placements. The pre-service teachers completed an on-line questionnaire; the data was imported into SPSS to permit cross...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technology Education, International Education
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Experiences and Expectations of Preservice Teachers in the Republic of Ireland with regard to Information and Communications Technologies in Education
Ann FitzGibbon; Elizabeth Oldham; Keith Johnston; Andrew Loxley
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2158–2165
Experiences and Expectations of Preservice Teachers in the Republic of Ireland with regard to Information and Communications Technologies in Education. This study seeks to examine possible links between the early experiences of preservice teachers...
Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Information Communication Technologies
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Pre-Service Teachers' Technological Self-Efficacy - an Irish Perspective
Alison Egan; Ann FitzGibbon; Keith Johnston; Elizabeth Oldham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1803–1812
This study explores pre-service teachers’ confidence using technology on school placement. Two cohorts of pre-service teachers were surveyed, each over a three-year period, during their college preparation course. The study adopted a sequential...
Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, International Education
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Do Third-Year Mathematics Undergraduates Know What They Are Supposed To Know?
Johnston Anderson; Keith Austin; Tony Barnard; Janet Jagger
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Vol. 29, No. 3 (1998) pp. 401–20
Describes a test using 155 third-year undergraduates in 15 different institutions to examine the extent to which certain core first-year material is retained and understood. Includes an analysis of the answers given by students to each question as...