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Improving student teachers’ digital pedagogy through meaningful learning activities
Siti Nazuar Sailin1, Noor Aida Mahmor2.
Purpose – This study aims to examine the attributes of meaningful
learning that student teachers perceived as enabling them to improve
their digital pedagogy. It is concerned with how the meaningful
learning activities help to prepare student teachers to successfully
integrate digital technologies in their future teaching practice.
Methodology – This study adopted a qualitative research design and
was underpinned by a meaningful learning theory as the theoretical
and analytical framework. A total of 24 final year student teachers
participated in this study. Data were mainly collected through student
teachers’ reflections regarding their learning experience. Thematic
analysis was utilized to analyze and present the findings.
Findings –The findings offer some important insights into how the
learning activities carried out in this Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning (SoTL) project have directly and indirectly accelerated
the acquisition of all the five attributes of meaningful learning.
The findings of this study reveal that meaningful learning activities
contribute to the improvement of the student teachers’ knowledge
of and skills in using Web 2.0. This improvement has boosted
their confidence to integrate digital pedagogy in future teaching
practices. The findings also indicate that although student teachers
value their experiences in meaningful learning activities, they have
some concerns regarding firstly, their capacities in applying digital
pedagogy and secondly, the practicality of integrating Web 2.0 tools
in the school setting because of several inherent limitations. Significance – Meaningful learning activities when incorporated
into teacher training programmes will expose student teachers to
authentic experiences which will be beneficial for their own learning
and future teaching practice.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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MyJurnal (2021) |
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3 |
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0.000 |
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CiteScore (2) |
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Q1 (Cultural Studies) Q2 (Education) Q3¬¬¬ (Psychology (all)) |
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SJR (0.385) |
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