Sunday, March 10, 2013

TPACK


Mishra and Koehler came up with very interesting topic. This topic called TPACK. TPACK is a combination of three areas of learning or teaching, content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and technological knowledge.

                                               
All three concepts are old known for educators, but the new thing about them is to deliver the learning subject using them together. It is very important to understand and explore the relationship between three areas.


Mirshra and Koehler have developed a framework and a series of guidelines that address the idea of TPACK. Also Mark Fijor a technology coordinator in Chicago provided us with good practical views of integrating TPACK in the classroom. Fijor describes the use of TPACK with systematic integration in schools. 

The use of TPACK depends on understanding how technology relates and affects pedagogy, and vice versa.


Lee Shulman described pedagogal content knowledge as  it represents the blending of content and pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or issues are organized, represented, and adapted to the diverse interests and abilities of learners, and presented for instruction


Activity types that developed by Judi Harris, Mark Hofer, Denise Schmidt, and Ann Thomson, is providing tools that helps educators to combine content, pedagogy, and technology to develop curriculum that fits their educational needs. The good combined curriculum encourages students to interact and engage in learning related activities with each other and with the teacher online.
Judi Mark Denise Activity Types