From Digital Doubt to Digital Confidence: Tracking Capability in Teacher Education with Katie Wilson

About this episode

Katie Wilson discusses her reflective project on tracking digital confidence in pre-service teachers and its implications for capability and identity.

In between PhD data sets, teacher educator Katie Wilson took on a small reflective project with her first-year students — and what she found was bigger than expected. In this episode, Katie (a lecturer at ACU in Brisbane) shares how tracking pre-service teachers’ digital confidence across a semester opened up unexpected insights about capability, curriculum, and identity. Grounded in ACARA’s digital requirements, framed through TPACK and the Digital Capability Continuum, this isn’t just a tec...

People in this episode

Guest: Katie Wilson

Topics covered

• digital confidence
• teacher education
• pre-service teachers
• curriculum
• identity
• digital capability

Keywords

• digital confidence
• teacher education
• pre-service teachers
• curriculum
• identity
• ACARA
• TPACK

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ACU, ACARA, TPACK

Places: Brisbane

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