Preparing Preservice Teachers for Diverse Classrooms: Influences of CMS on Beliefs and Instructional Practices

Thea Dunn

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 444–447

The multi-year study discussed in this paper focuses on the use of a course management system (CMS) to deliver video clips and support shared reflections in a field-based elementary mathematics methods course. The findings reveal that virtual...

Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Classrooms, Students

Influences of Culturally Relevant, Standards-Based Multimedia Mathematics Activities on Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Practice

Thea Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4392–4399

This study examines preservice teachers' use of culturally relevant, standards-based multimedia mathematics activities. The multimedia activities, including software, digital video clips, and online discussion board, enabled the preservice teachers...

Topics: Mathematics, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Preservice Teacher Education, Students

Using Technology Tools to Revitalize Mathematics Teaching: Perspectives from the United States and Namibia

Thea Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1073–1077

This study reports on a research project whose goal was to provide secondary mathematics teachers in the United States and Namibia with opportunities to utilize technology tools to teach mathematics for understanding. Qualitative and quantitative...

Topics: Research Methods, Classrooms, Teaching Methods, Mathematics, Virtual Environments

The Interplay between a Course Management System and Preservice Teachers' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Instructional Practices

Thea K. Dunn

Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 2, No. 3

The multiyear study discussed in this paper focuses on the use of a course management system (CMS) to deliver video clips and interactive mathematics investigations and to support shared reflections in a field-based elementary mathematics methods...

Using Technology to Construct Mathematical Understanding: Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptualizations of Rat

Thea K. Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 669–673

Preservice elementary teachers’ use of general-purpose presentation software programs to build dynamic, interac tive visual models for operations with rational numbers in a K-8 mathematics methods course was the focus of the present study. Two...

Educational Technology: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Self-Concepts

Thea K. Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 849–853

The past decade has spawned a host of studies devoted to issues of gender and technology (Sutton, 1991; Sanders,

Using Technology to Construct Mathematical Understanding: Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptualizations of Rat

Thea K. Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 669–673

Preservice elementary teachers’ use of general-purpose presentation software programs to build dynamic, interac tive visual models for operations with rational numbers in a K-8 mathematics methods course was the focus of the present study. Two...

Educational Technology: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Self-Concepts

Thea K. Dunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 849–853

The past decade has spawned a host of studies devoted to issues of gender and technology (Sutton, 1991; Sanders,