Post-Secondary Pre-Service Teachers.

[Barbara Morganfield]

I would welcome the opportunity to visit with pre-service teacher educators who would be interested in developing a FC project for pre-service teachers. Here are some very preliminary thoughts based on existing projects.

Possible FC Projects for Pre-service Teachers:

Based off of current FC projects

1. NetGenEd - Purpose - to identify current global trends in education, identify and address

issues and constraints teachers and schools may face, provide information to teachers, and to

practice digital literacy skills.

●Research on NetGen

●Create Wiki reports with pre-service partners around the globe

○Analyzing current global trends in education to meet those needs

○Identifying issues and constraints to be considered

○Identifying ways to work within those constraints

●Reviewed by expert advisors

●Create a video for teachers based on their research in current global technological trends

2. Digiteen Project - Purpose - to develop an understanding of the need for digital citizenship,

identify and analyze programs/curricula already developed, create their own unit implementing

using and practicing the skills they will be developing a unit about.

●Research current literature and curriculum written to address digital citizenship

●Write a collaborative wiki report with pre-service teachers around the globe

●Develop a unit of instruction for elementary, middle and/or high school students on digital

citizenship including videos to support the teaching/learning of the unit

3. A Week in the Life Project - Purpose - to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of

how others live and communicate and of cultures different from our own.

●Pre-service teachers will research a week in the life of a public middle or high school,

urban and suburban school around the following topics:

○School time/how class time is scheduled

○Languages, Religions, Ethnicities, Socio-economic status

○Housing and Transportation

○Leisure time

○Food and Celebrations

○Environment

○Curricular Requirements

○Extracurricular Requirements

●Complete a team project with pre-service teachers around the globe demonstrating found

information to the rest of the group

●Upload multimedia to project wiki

●View all group projects and compare/contrast the results

 

Any other thoughts?