Mishra and Koeler’s article Too Cool for School? No Way! acquaints the reader with the term TPACK. Now I know what you’re thinking...and no it’s not the latest rapper on the music scene! It is in fact an acronym for Technology Pedagogy And Content Knowledge and I believe is quite self explanatory.
As educators, our job involves teaching (Pedagogy) students specific subject matter (Content), align this with aspects of Technological Knowledge and there you have your TPACK.
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The outline of TPACK demonstrates just how interrelated the strands of the framework are. The link between technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge intertwine to form the framework of technological pedagogical and content knowledge.
This article discusses how expert teachers find ways to orchestrate and coordinate these three aspects into every act of teaching and how they find solutions to complex, dynamic problems of practice by designing curricular solutions that fit their unique goals, situations and student learners.
Teachers must repurpose both traditional teaching methods and technological tools for educational purposes. This can be achieved by being digitally fluent and displaying experiential understanding developed through training and deliberate practice of all the aspects of the TPACK framework and how they interact with each other.
Most of all, we as prospective teachers need to develop a willingness to play with technologies and be open to building new experiences for students so that fun, cool tools can be educational. If we are to teach as we were taught, we will not only lag behind our colleagues in content and knowledge, we will affect the learning capabilities, engagement and motivation levels of our students.
Wanna come play?
Nice post Belinda MK
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