Advancing teacher preparation to full adoption of technology infusion is no small undertaking. Written by 20 experts in the teacher prep field, Championing Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation provides research- and practice-based direction for faculty, administrators, PK-12 school partners and other stakeholders who support programwide technology infusion in teacher education programs. This kind of change involves almost every individual and system involved in teacher preparation.

Chapter 5 explores the future of work and the types of skills workers need to have in order to be competitive in current and future labor markets, discusses the foundation for digital- age learning, and examines the logistics of implementing digital-age learning. It discusses applications of various educational technologies and provides recommendations for systemic change, such as building transformation plans on a framework (the ISTE Essential Conditions) that describe foundational elements of effective educational transformation. The last section examines the implications of computational thinking in an increasingly technological world.