Development of Science Teachers' TPACK East Asian Practices
Science is a subject matter that requires learners to explore the world and develop their own abilities on the basis of that exploration. As technology broadens and deepens, science teachers need to expand their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Development of Science Teachers' TPACK East Asian Practices
Development of Science Teachers’ TPACK
Ying-Shao Hsu Editor
Development of Science Teachers’ TPACK East Asian Practices
Editor Ying-Shao Hsu Graduate Institute of Science Education National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan
ISBN 978-981-287-440-5 ISBN 978-981-287-441-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-441-2
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Preface
Teaching with technology has been widespread around the world for many years, and it continues to increase and change with greater access to and variety of technologies. Taking the United States as an example, at least one computer was available in 97 % of its classrooms in 2009 (Gray, Thomas, & Lewis, 2010). The fever about pursuing electronic classrooms has spread to developing countries. Zhang (2007) reported that governments of most Eastern countries launched projects or reforms in classrooms since 2000 to infuse information and communication technologies (ICT). As early as 2002, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and three other Asian countries were listed among the countries with high ICT access (International Telecommunication Union, 2003; Ono, 2005). The Ministry of Education in Taiwan announced the Blueprint of Information Education in Elementary and Junior High Schools (Ministry of Education, 2008) to strengthen students’ technology literacy, which included increasing the hours for information courses in the curriculum and enhancing teachers’ technology application abilities. This call for technology literacy should not be confused with engineering/technology literacy advocated as part of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiative i
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