Dr. Wilfried Admiraal, chair of the research program Teaching & Teacher Learning, Universiteit Leiden

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Technology in teacher education:
Some thoughts from the
Netherlands
Wilfried Admiraal | FIET Tarragona June 29. 2015

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Structure
• Overview international research (briefly)
• Teacher education (TEd) in The
Netherlands
• National research on technology in TEd
• Some examples from Leiden TEd
• Implications for Ted
• Implications for research
• Focus on teaching WITH technology, not
teaching technology

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Research on technology in TEd
State of the art
• Technical skills OK
• Media literacy should be improved
• Digital pedagogy should be improved
How to improve?
• Technology-infused courses instead of
stand-alone technology courses
• TPACK
• Possibilities to experiment in practice

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Primary
education
Pre-vocational &
lower grades
Secondary
education
Pre-vocational &
Secondary
education
4 years BA
4 years BA
3 years BA
1 year
MA
1 year
MA
2 years MA

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Technology in TEd The Netherlands
• Technology-infused courses
• Autonomy of teacher educators
• Focus on teaching practice
• Gap between school and university in:
• Infrastructure
• Software
• Expectations
• Lack of attention for media literacy (cyber
bullying, reflective use of Internet)
• No assessment digital part, only pedagogy

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Good examples
1. Flipping the classroom / inverted learning
2. Use of quizzes (Socrative, Kahoot,
Quizstar, Snapshot)
3. Combination of 1 and 2
4. Adaptive teaching based on student test
scores (Languages, Maths)
5. Use of social media (Facebook groups)
6. Student presentations (VLE, Padlet,
Glogster, Website)

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Implications for TEd practice
• Professional development of teacher
educators
• Focus on teaching practice in school
• Align technology in school and universities
• Move away from digital competence, go to
digital pedagogy or good teaching?

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Implications for research
• Mobile technology
• Games and simulations
• Design studies in TEd
• Effect studies with effects in school practice
• Practice what you preach?