Albert Akyeampong

Creativity and critical thinking are important parts of the college experience. Colleges offer courses that aim at helping students to develop creative and critical thinking skills. The current generation of students belongs to the millennial generation. The millennial generation refers to those born between 1981 and 1999. This generation has grown up immersed in technology. The millennials are growing up with the World Wide Web and digital technologies including laptops, cell phones, text messaging, and video games, but do not necessarily develop creative and thinking skills just because of this. To develop creative and critical thinking skills, a digital storytelling course was designed for freshmen in a Midwestern university in the United States. Digital storytelling is the art of combining images, audio, and sometimes video to tell a story (Frazel, Digital storytelling guide for educators, International Society for Technology in Education, Washington, DC, 2010). Research shows digital storytelling improves engagement, critical thinking, and creativity. This research reports on experiences in a transition course designed to help freshmen develop critical and creative thinking skills, transition to college life, and understand college-level work ethics.

In the College of Education at Ohio University, technology is an integral part of the teacher education preservice program. Technology is being used to train prospective teachers as a resource to integrate into the curriculum. Integration of technology into teacher education programs is ...

Creativity and critical thinking are important parts of the college experience. Colleges offer courses that aim at helping students to develop creative and critical thinking skills. The current generation of students belongs to the millennial generation. The millennial generation refers to those born between 1981 and 1999. This generation has grown up immersed in technology. The millennials are growing up with the World Wide Web and digital technologies including laptops, cell phones, text messaging, and video games, but do not necessarily develop creative and thinking skills just because of this. To develop creative and critical thinking skills, a digital storytelling course was designed for freshmen in a Midwestern university in the United States. Digital storytelling is the art of combining images, audio, and sometimes video to tell a story (Frazel, Digital storytelling guide for educators, International Society for Technology in Education, Washington, DC, 2010). Research shows digital storytelling improves engagement, critical thinking, and creativity. This research reports on experiences in a transition course designed to help freshmen develop critical and creative thinking skills, transition to college life, and understand college-level work ethics.

This study examined student's perceptions of different forms of technology use for instruction purposes by faculty and whether these different forms of technology can predict instructional quality. The study sought to explore whether different forms of technology: Productivity Tools, Presentation Tools, Communication Tools, and World Wide Web Tools, reliably predict instructional quality. The study also aimed at examining which of the predictors is more important in predicting instructional quality. A large Midwestern University Teacher Education program was the accessible population from which a convenient sample was drawn. A total of 121 responses were used in the analysis. The response rate of the study was 56.6%. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Findings from the null hypothesis and the supplementary analysis converge to indicate combination of Productivity Tools, Presentation Tools, Communication Tools, and World Wide Web Tool...

Page 1. The Relationship of Technology Use to Perception of Instructional Quality A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Education of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Albert S. Akyeampong August 2008 ...

Recent surveys of K-12 teachers show consistent declines in the classroom use of technologies implying that effective integration of computer technology into classroom instruction has yet to be realized. This paper identifies major barriers that stood out with a group of urban in-...

The papers in this special issue of Computers in the Schools were all presented at the Te'chnology and Teacher Education Conference which was held in Greenville, North Carolina on May 10-12,1990. The origin of the Technology and Teacher Education Conference had many ...

In the College of Education at Ohio University, technology is an integral part of the teacher education preservice program. Technology is being used to train prospective teachers as a resource to integrate into the curriculum. Integration of technology into teacher education programs is ...

... Keengwe, J., Onchwari, G., & Wachira, P. (2008). Computer technology integration and student learn-ing: Barriers and promise. Journal of Science Educa-tion and Technology, 17(6), 560–565. doi:10.1007/ s10956-008-9123-5 Kerlinger, FN, & Lee, HB (2000). ...

Educational stakeholders concerned about the academic challenges of urban learners have perceived technology as a tool for reversing the historical influences of poverty, discrimination, inequity, chronic underachievement, and lack of opportunity. However, ...

Recent surveys of K-12 teachers show consistent declines in the classroom use of technologies implying that effective integration of computer technology into classroom instruction has yet to be realized. This paper identifies major barriers that stood out with a group of urban in-...