September 2001 — Features
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Technology in Secondary Teacher Education
Clearly, we are finding that technology in pre-service teacher education, as well as in society at large, is a powerful vehicle for change. It has become a catalyst for challenging our attitudes, long-held beliefs about the way things have always been done, classroom practices, and the way students learn. Our future teachers will be in classrooms full of the "N-Gen" (Internet Generation) who have grown up in a digital world (Tapscott 1998). Therefore, beginning teachers no longer have a choice about using technology in their classrooms of tomorrow if they hope to understand and reach this generation of students who have learned technology as a second language.
Elizabeth M. Willis, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of educational technology at the Center for Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. She earned her doctorate from the University of New Mexico, and taught at New Mexico State University before taking her current position at NAU four years ago. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology, Willis also serves as the coordinator of the educational technology faculty and the online MEd in Educational Technology now offered by NAU.
E-mail: Becky.Willis@nau.edu
Peggy Raines, Ph.D., is an associate professor of secondary education in the Instructional Leadership Department at Northern Arizona University. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before coming to NAU in 1991, she taught English for seven years at a middle school in Northglenn, CO. She was also an administrator in three Colorado school districts, all at the middle school level.
E-mail: Peggy.Raines@nau.edu
