ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of social-constructivist views about learning, the practices such views entail, and the reasons they ought to be adopted in the field of teacher education. This presentation helps the readers to understand the technology-based learning model and the means of putting it to practice in teacher education programs. Teaching practices resulting from constructivist views rely heavily on putting students in groups that work together to achieve a common goal. However, it is important to remember that collaboration cannot be achieved by the mere fact that learners are working in groups, but because of the additional cognitive activities that take place when learners interact. The chapter then discusses the usage of social media tools to create targeted collaborative learning experiences. Finally, it presents an example of how such tools have been used in a TAFL methodology course to fulfill the mentioned learning model.
