Using anchored instruction to teach preservice teachers to integrate technology in the curriculum.

This case inquiry addresses the use of the "anchored instruction

approach" to restructure educational computing courses to enhance
subsequent time teachers' learning of technology applications in the
classroom. A cohort clump of 22 preservice teachers from a typical
teacher education institution in Southeastern Ohio was involved in
the investigation The preservice teachers were enlisted in both a
curriculum disclosure class and an educational computing class in
the winter 2000 academic quarter. The instructors for the two courses
collaborated their teaching efforts whereby the preservice teachers
used the educational computing class to research, record, and
document their experiences in the curriculum disclosure class. ...