Digital Rural Community Walks: Building Preservice Teachers' Rural Engagement through Technology Integration

Autor/inn/en	Lux, Nicholas; Downey, Jayne; Luebeck, Jennifer; Hicks, Joe
Titel	Digital Rural Community Walks: Building Preservice Teachers' Rural Engagement through Technology Integration
Quelle	In: Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 30 (2022) 2, S.135-143 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-7069
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Preservice Teachers; Technology Integration; Experiential Learning; Rural Schools; Educational Technology; Misconceptions; Video Technology; Place Based Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Community Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Rural areas; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Unterrichtsmedien; Missverständnis
Abstract	Rural communities around the United States are facing a critical shortage of teachers due largely to challenges with recruitment and retention. Our vision for responding to this growing crisis is to consider how technology-rich early rural field experiences that emphasize "place-attentive" technology integration can build preservice teachers' interest in and commitment to teaching in rural spaces. More specifically, we propose that teacher educators consider how to provide preservice teachers opportunities for embedded rural field experiences where they build digital videos that document the assets of a community while reflecting on their preconceptions and misconceptions about a career as an educator in a rural community. This process of mapping a community's assets has preservice teachers complete a digital "Rural Community Walk" (RCW) video in which they identify, document, and reflect upon their experiences exploring rurality and teaching. If implemented with fidelity, these rural early field experiences that focus on place-attentive technology integration and the development of the digital RCWs could serve as mechanisms in teacher education that build the pathways needed to increase teacher recruitment and retention in rural communities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01