ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses which technologies teacher educators require their teacher candidates to integrate into their own teaching practices. It analyzes as methods courses that required teacher candidates to integrate technology into their own lessons through sustained, repeated engagement throughout the semester. The teacher candidates have the option of learning more about media literacy through resources in the course management system as well. For teaching purposes, teacher candidates produce a media production project and reflection that critically addresses “the classroom pros and cons” of media literacy on gender, ethnicity, lesson creation, and media production. Teaching English is an in-person, general English methods class housed in a school of education. There are several lectures on writing in a digital environment, evaluating and responding to student writing in a digital environment, multimodal composition and digital genres, and technology tools for the writing teacher. Contradictions abounded when teacher candidates were required to integrate technology into their own practices.
