Hundreds of teacher education programs throughout the United States are currently working to determine how to best prepare teachers so they can effectively harness the potential of technology for learning. Hundreds of school districts and institutions of higher education throughout the nation are working to maximize the return on their investment in technology. The Over 400 consortia of the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to use Technology (PT3) program have redesigned undergraduate and graduate curricula, addressed issues of digital equity, and established innovative ways of transforming teacher education through the power of technology. The two volumes of this book document significant insights of PT3 projects around the country. Volume I is available in paperback from ISTE and includes 20 chapters filled with a wealth of ideas and approaches for integrating technology in teacher preparation.
The chapters in this second volume of the book further document implemented and tested strategies that represent geographically broad and economically diverse contexts. These stories of the struggles and successes of technological innovation and professional development from the PT3 program are rich resources for educators and policy makers. The stories range from the challenges of building institutional structures to the evolution of an individual teachers’ perspective of technology integration. Every aspect of the educational system is addressed in this broad ranging examination of how to facilitate the development of teachers who can best use technology to impact learning from Kindergarten to College.