Utilizing Mobile Learning Environments to Cultivate Student-Teachers’ Reflective Practice

• In Event: TED - Building Teacher Reflective Practice through Technology

Short Description

As the profession and art form of teaching changes and evolves, so do the ways in which universities prepares future teachers. This study helps gain a better understanding of how reflective practice using technological tools impacts student teachers self-efficacy. Five student teachers took part in a reflective practice paradigm using mobile learning tools (e.g., tablets). Their self-efficacy scores, which include pedagogical and technological efficacy, were to be compared to other student teachers in the non-reflective practice group. The potential findings could greatly impact how teacher education programs prepare future teachers.

Authors

• Xiaojun Chen, St. John's University

• Michael Downton, St. John's University