TPACK in Context

TPACK design |1. Introduction | 2. Misconceptions & Difficulties | 3. Digital Resources |4. Instruction | 5. TPACK Context | Assessment Rubric

5. TPACK in the Context of Your Tele Design (5x)

In this section you are being asked to demonstrate your understanding of technology integration. To accomplish this:

Apply numerous strategies and ideas we’ve explored this semester to the design your TELE ;
Discuss your specific uses of technology and their intended role in realizing the learning objectives of your lesson.

Discuss how your Tele is influenced by Lee Shulman’s (1986) descriptions of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and how Koehler and Mishra (2009) build on Shulman’s PCK in their explorations of TPACK.

“…the most regularly taught topics in one’s subject area, the most useful forms of representation of those ideas, the most powerful analogies, illustrations, examples, explanations, and demonstrations—in a word, the ways of representing and formulating the subject that make it comprehensible to others” (p. 9).

With discussion of appropriate course readings, I invite you to discuss the following aspects of your specific TELE:

Technological knowledge, including:
- The specific technologies;
- The affordances (objective) of these technologies (what can be accomplished with the technology);
- Affordances as subjective (level of technological knowledge skill and understanding)
  - Students
  - Teacher (You)
Design with Learning activity types
- Specific LATs as they relate to content, pedagogy and selection of technology;
- Your (the teacher’s) technological pedagogical content knowledge;
- Specific Interaction Strategies : (Because my students are using a specific technology in this specific way, I can assume cognitive amplification in these areas: consider, for example, Bloom’s Taxonomy).
Design with Distributed Cognition |
- Cognitive amplification (effects with, of, and through);
- Technological pedagogical functions:
  - Connection,
  - Off-loading, and
  - Monitoring (formative assessment, see #4 above).
  - Translation
    - Understanding of the representation of concepts using technology;
    - How translation relates to technological pedagogical content knowledge.