Jana M Willis Michelle Giles Competence and Confidence: Keys to Preparing Teachers to Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow’s Technologies Jana M Willis Michelle Giles

The Question What are the competence and confidence levels of preservice teacher candidates in the use of the various tools used in a technology integration course.

The Premise During training teacher candidates, need to gain both competence and confidence in their own abilities related to a variety of technologies. Online social technologies may help candidates during group collaborative processes (Lipponen, 2002), as they construct online artifacts that reflect their shared knowledge (Augar, Raitman, & Zhou, 2004; Wang & Turner, 2004).

The Study Offering opportunities for exploration of new technologies can build confidence and motivate candidates to initiate technology use in the future. This presentation explores the pre-survey competence and confidence levels of preservice teachers.

The Background During an educational technology class, preservice teacher candidates were required to use selected online tools as part of class assignments and for a final group project.

In the beginning… Curriculum Library Closed PT3 Grant – EE Demonstration Adopted Project Learning Tree Integrated Technology Adopted Project Wild Re-Adopted Project Learning Tree

The Unit Model 5E Lesson Plan TPACK Model Technology Pedagogy Content

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Model Digital Age Work and Learning

Model Digital Age Work and Learning

Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Comfort Levels

Self-Evaluation David Dunning, Ph.D. at Cornell has found that the least competent performers inflate their abilities the most; that the reason for the over inflation seems to be ignorance, not arrogance; and that chronic self-beliefs, however inaccurate, underlie both people's over and underestimations of how well they're doing.

Self-Evaluation In a subjective area like intelligence people tend to perceive their competence in self-serving ways. People don't like giving negative feedback. Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much“ (Heine, 1999).

Getting to the Truth. How to frame competence and confidence self-evaluation to obtain an accurate measures. Overconfidence produces underachievement: Inaccurate self evaluations could undermine students’ learning and retention

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