What is TPACK?
Technological
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) refers to the process of integrating and
use of various technological tools in classroom, keeping a balance between the
Pedagogical Knowledge (PK), the Content Knowledge (CK), and the Technological
Knowledge (TK). To have a better understanding about each of the concepts
before mentioned, PK, CK, and TK, it is necessary to know how each one of them
functions in the teaching process.
Pedagogical
Knowledge (PK) is understood as the way teachers teach, for example, lesson
plans, explanations, teaching strategies, tests, techniques, exams, among
others. It refers to "how to teach" in the TPACK model.
The
Content Knowledge (CK) encloses all the academic materials: such as “concepts,
theories, ideas, organizational frameworks" about any subject, for example,
mathematics, geography, history, biology, etc. CK is what teachers need to
teach and what the students need to learn according to the schools’
curriculum. It refers to “what to
teach" in the TPACK model.
The
Technological Knowledge (TK) is how teachers make use of the different
technological tools available such as Twitter, Skype, FunBrain, Prezi, Google
Docs, YouTube, Google Earth, to name a few, with the objective to transmit the
content of a specific subject in a more
realistic, interactive and sociable way.
The
combination of Content Knowledge, Pedagogic Knowledge, and Technological Knowledge
enables the educators and students appropriately utilize the extensive digital
resources in today's world with the purpose of transmitting and acquiring new
knowledge more efficiently. The TPACK model is more than having class
technological devices such as computers, tablets, smart boards, etc. It focuses
on make use of those devices to learn and expand our digital skills that help
us to become competent teachers and students inside and outside of the classroom.
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