Technology, Science and Preservice Teachers: Creating a Culture of Technology-Savvy Elementary Teachers

The purpose of this study was to explore how preservice teachers incorporated technology into a microteaching activity that was a component of their science education, mathematics education and educational technology courses. The preservice teachers displayed various levels of technology use ranging from additive and nonessential to integral and integrated. Four uses of technology emerged; as knowledge source, data organizer, information presenter, and facilitator. In this article we will discuss microteaching as a tool in teacher education and share the preservice Teachers' efforts to integrate computers and other related technologies in the teaching of science.