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There is a growing emphasis on digital competence as part of mainstream education, and teachers need to be prepared to teach it. ICT has been included in a growing number of national school curriculums in two main ways. School graduates need to be digitally competent in order to go on to further education or enter the workforce, so ensuring that students have an understanding of how to use ICT to communicate, collaborate, and create in a safe way is a clear part of many curriculums. In addition, digital technologies have been integrated into curriculums as part of teaching and learning of other subject areas in an effort to improve educational outcomes. Teachers, therefore, need to be instructed how to teach ICT but also to use ICT to teach subject content.
Educating student teachers about how ICT can be used in education involves more than technological know-how. The pedagogical and content knowledge components of ICT in...
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Carabott, K., McLeod, A. (2019). Teacher Education, Thinking About ICT. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_153-1
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