TPACK! - Week 5 Prompt - Mark Spontarelli
1. As an educator introducing new tools in the classroom, one must ask themselves if this tool will be useful for you as a teacher and for your students in gathering and learning the information you wish to present. Would these apps be age appropriate for your students? Could the students catch on without being overwhelmed? Using technology is not easy for everyone so you would want to make sure you know this tool inside and out. The technical side of presenting can be difficult so you would want to make sure you have your students on the same page before going further into using the app. This goes hand in hand with the pedagogical aspect. It is all about delivery of the technology and information! Know your content of the subject and the tool like the back of your hand so your teaching will not be confusing but orderly.
2. A positive attribute would be the excitement you give the students in learning the content through technology. Not only will this be exciting for the students, but this will be exciting for you as an educator to help improve your teaching! Another positive attribute would be enhancing the creativity of your students. Let them explore the tool.
A hindrance could be us as teachers being as the article about integrating technology, "digital immigrants". There are many teachers who are not familiar with this type of teaching and technology. This world of teaching is getting bigger and bigger, and we need to keep up with the times. There is excitement in TPACK and a teacher must be open to break away from there old ways of presenting and use this amazing technique. Another hindrance could be schools who do not have the funds to get this type of technology. I think that as teachers, we should present TPACK to the schools to show them the effectiveness of this style of teaching and where education is moving.
3. I will choose technologies that would contain content that would apply to the lesson I am teaching. There are many different tools out there and there are many that can apply to just one subject such as science or history. I would make sure that the content I am teaching would be shown with the tool best fit for the presentation. This is very important for our delivery when teaching.
4. After learning about TPACK, I would have questions such as, how can I present this information the most effectively in a way to get students to understand the content I am teaching and is the tool going to be effective for their level of learning when it comes to understanding the technological aspect of using this in their classroom? I would begin to answer these by reading and watching presentations of other teachers posts who use the tools that I am considering using. I would want to know how they presented the content and what was effective and what was not. I would need to consider the level of understanding that my students are at so that they get the most out of the tool and would feel confident when learning the lesson and participating in the work that the tool would require.
2. A positive attribute would be the excitement you give the students in learning the content through technology. Not only will this be exciting for the students, but this will be exciting for you as an educator to help improve your teaching! Another positive attribute would be enhancing the creativity of your students. Let them explore the tool.
A hindrance could be us as teachers being as the article about integrating technology, "digital immigrants". There are many teachers who are not familiar with this type of teaching and technology. This world of teaching is getting bigger and bigger, and we need to keep up with the times. There is excitement in TPACK and a teacher must be open to break away from there old ways of presenting and use this amazing technique. Another hindrance could be schools who do not have the funds to get this type of technology. I think that as teachers, we should present TPACK to the schools to show them the effectiveness of this style of teaching and where education is moving.
3. I will choose technologies that would contain content that would apply to the lesson I am teaching. There are many different tools out there and there are many that can apply to just one subject such as science or history. I would make sure that the content I am teaching would be shown with the tool best fit for the presentation. This is very important for our delivery when teaching.
4. After learning about TPACK, I would have questions such as, how can I present this information the most effectively in a way to get students to understand the content I am teaching and is the tool going to be effective for their level of learning when it comes to understanding the technological aspect of using this in their classroom? I would begin to answer these by reading and watching presentations of other teachers posts who use the tools that I am considering using. I would want to know how they presented the content and what was effective and what was not. I would need to consider the level of understanding that my students are at so that they get the most out of the tool and would feel confident when learning the lesson and participating in the work that the tool would require.
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