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Teachers talking about computers: What messages do they have for pre-service teachers?

Teacher educators face the challenge of ensuring that pre-service teachers have access to appropriate models for the integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in teaching. Field experience in classrooms can be supplemented by presentations of models in interactive multimedia. The CD-ROM project on which this paper is based included materials prepared by and interviews with ICT-using teachers. Analysis of the interview transcripts and trials with the CD-ROM confirms that the interviews are likely to be effective in presenting pre-service teachers with appropriate messages about the use of ICTs in teaching. Access to teachers who model the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) is an important factor in learning to teach with ICTs (Albion, 1996; Becker, 1994; Downes, 1993; Sherwood, 1993). For students in teacher education programs, the logical context for encountering these teachers is field experience. However, many pre-service teachers report seeing little use of ICTs during their field experience (Albion, 1996; Jones, 1998). Hence, various researchers (Albion & Gibson, 1998; Chambers & Stacey, 1999; Kurth & Thompson, 1998) have proposed the use of interactive multimedia to present accessible and appropriate models of teaching including the use of ICTs. The Integrating Information Technology into Teaching CD-ROM (Gibson & Albion, 1999) presents a set of problem-based scenarios related to planning for the use of ICTs in primary school classrooms. One of the goals in creating these materials was to provide users with models of the integration of ICTs in teachers' planning by having a small group of teachers provide sample responses to the tasks embedded in the materials. Video of interviews conducted with these teachers was also included in the materials. Pre-service teachers who participated in a trial of the prototype for the CD-ROM found the interviews to be among the most engaging components (Albion & Gibson, 1998). Thus it was important to ensure that the interviews included in the final product conveyed appropriate messages about teaching with ICTs. This paper reports on the content of the interviews and argues that it will be helpful for pre-service teachers.