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The current study investigates the role of iPad-mediated recordings as culturally enacted artifacts in generating affordances for constructive feedback on pre-service teachers teaching practice, self-reflection, and evaluation and enacting a path to guide pre-service teachers in becoming part of the epistemology of the teaching practice. A group of Swedish pre-service teachers embarked on a teaching practice placement in Tanzanian elementary schools where they documented their teaching practicum experience using iPad minis. Pre-service teachers then selected specific parts of the videos and uploaded the content on the university’s Moodle VLE site. The recorded sessions formed the primary mechanisms through which an experienced instructor offered pre-service teachers constructive feedback. Specific guidelines and training on the four indicated lesson elements that pre-service teachers needed to upload were provided prior to this practical teaching experience. Results indicate that the feedback strategies focused primarily on pre-service teachers’ planning and actual teaching practice.
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Hadjistassou, S.K., Allen, C. Using iPad-mediated recordings to offer contingent feedback and introduce pre-service teachers to the epistemology of the teaching practice. J. Comput. Educ. 5, 373–392 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-018-0110-4
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