Teacher Education and Technology Integration amid COVID-19 Pandemic

What is it about?

The paper focuses on integrating technologies for instruction in pre-service teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigerian Colleges of Education. The emergence of COVID-19 occasioned the shifting paradigm of teaching in schools worldwide to online methods. The script discussed that pre-service teachers in Nigerian Colleges of Education face the challenge of integrating technologies into classroom instruction. The article stressed the importance of ICT to achieve quality pre-service teacher education in Colleges of Education. Integrating technologies into pre-service teacher education and the challenges COVID-19 poses to pre-service teacher education was discussed. The author averred that mobile learning through WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Classroom during the COVID-19 would provide sustained education. The conclusion was that teachers and students should explore mobile learning's full benefits through WhatsApp Instant Messaging, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Classroom during the

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Why is it important?

Pre-service teachers need to have an adequate understanding of integrating technology into learning. Teachers would not function appropriately in classrooms today without technology integration. Most importantly, in this era of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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