Title :
The Investigation on Kindergarten Teacher´s Educational Technology Literacy: Take Kindergarten Backbone Teachers Who Participate in "National Teacher Training Program" in Henan Province for Example
Author :
Jide Wang ; Shuhui Zhu
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Modern Educ., Henan Univ., Kaifeng, China
Abstract :
Appropriately using information technology in kindergarten teaching is able to benefit for the development of young children, which requires kindergarten teacher has a certain educational technology literacy. This study used questionnaire to survey the level of kindergarten teachers\´ educational technology literacy situation. We choose 1,000 Henan rural backbone teachers who participate in the "National Training Plan" and recovery 768 valid questionnaires. The survey data is analyzed with SPSS 17.0. The results show that the overall level of kindergarten teachers\´ educational technology literacy is lower, but the attitude toward using information technology in kindergarten teaching is positive. The data indicates that the kindergarten teacher has certain educational technology knowledge and skills, such as the theory of integrating information technology into curriculum, informatized instructional design, using the internet to search information, download and save teach resources and so on.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; teacher training; Henan rural backbone teacher; Internet; National Teacher Training Program; information technology; informatized instructional design; kindergarten teacher educational technology literacy; kindergarten teaching; Computers; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Information technology; Knowledge engineering; Training; Educational technology literacy; information technology; kindergarten teacher;
Conference_Titel :
Educational Innovation through Technology (EITT), 2014 International Conference of
Conference_Location :
Brisbane
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4231-2
DOI :
10.1109/EITT.2014.45