Hi everyone! I knew nothing about TPACK before starting this class. I did know about teaching technology and now implementing it into the classroom will affect your students. I also knew about having content knowledge and what you as a teacher need in order to teach wisely and thoughfully. Lastly I have obviously heard of pedagogy before because that's what teachers base themselves on when teaching a class of their own. What I didn't know is that they should or have been put together to form this thing called TPACK where everything blends together to make out lives as teachers easier. Now, questions I have before introducing technology into the classroom involving this form of education are as follows:
Is TPACK something you can use throughout a school or with multiple teachers?
Is it beneficial to have several teachers using the TPACK system together that teach different subject matter for several different classes?
What are the benefits to students and teachers to using this system?
Some positive attributes to using transliterate practices in the classroom are that students are more proficient in the subject that you are trying to teach because they are able to view things on their own and research according to what the teacher asks. Students are able to type and learn computer skills while researching or looking for information, and they are also using key words so literacy is a major factor in transliteracy as well. Transliteracy allows for student directed and collaborative learning environments to take place and this involves the students more in terms of education. It is a major way of preparing students for the future like never before.
Downfalls to adding transliteracy skills to the classroom involve not always knowing what students are doing because a lot of older grades are on a computer the majority of the time without observation in order to do research so how do we know students are doing what they should be doing? Another negative to this is is every student able to access technology in all schools because it is such a new thing so a lot of schools are not equipped for 21st century learners. One more issue that might be there is technology as a separate entity or grade for each student might put even more work on the teacher to be responsible for as if they don't have enough to do throughout the day/week/year.
To enhance teaching with technology in the classroom I will include computer work where students are able to collaborate with one another through whiteboard websites to discuss a project they might be doing in class. This is similar to a chat but instead allows for students to talk about what they are going to do the next day in class and every night they would talk about something else. I would also have my students create presentation through stories or books that they create as a group or pair online to make it digital and a little more interesting. Another way to incorporate technology into the classroom is having students create an exit slip for homework and have them put up their answers to the prompt given by me on a discussion board. They would just tell me something that they learned that day and what was the most interesting part of their day. If it was older grades, I would expect a little more and at the beginning of the year I would ease my students into this idea because some might not know anything about a computer.
After learning about TPACK I don't have many questions because in the beginning when I did have questions they were answered. I don't normally have complex questions so they are answered pretty easily through exploration. Something similar to what I expect from my students, especially to have more student directed teaching.
I have shared a link that I enjoyed while looking around for TPACK and it's meaning to help describe it to myself.
http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Using+TPACK+to+Support+Classroom+Teachers?responseToken=088ad5cc75342b4d43e71100f4952b58f
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