Spatial skills in Science: how mobile technology can enhance teacher pedagogical content knowledge

Digital technologies offer new and exciting opportunities for teaching and learning. However, supporting integration into schools, and teachers? use of these technologies is not straightforward. This article centres on a participatory-design project with pre-service teachers surrounding using smartphones to support spatial thinking in science. Through examination of the project, we explore the broader issues of how technology can be used in school, possible approaches to supporting teachers in their use of digital technologies and consider future implications.