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This chapter explores the development of a productive partnership between a teacher education faculty and a secondary school to develop preservice teachers’ competence in the use of information technology. It draws on data generated during a research project that investigated the use of electronic communication by preservice teachers within a history curriculum course in which they worked with high school students. In this aspect of the history curriculum course, preservice teachers sought to expose students to various pedagogical issues within a technological context. It also sought to ensure that the preservice teachers in this course acquired some of the ‘Minimum Standards for Teachers — Learning Technology’, developed and published under the auspices of Education Queensland’s Schooling 2001 project.1
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Mayer, D., Mills, M., Roulston, K. (2001). ‘Kicking and Screaming into the 21st Century’: A Collaborative Attempt to Develop Beginning Teacher Competencies through E-Communication. In: Velde, C. (eds) International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0742-9_7
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