Week 11

I learned quite a bit about TPACK. TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. There are different parts of TPACK. The first is pedagogical knowledge which is just general knowledge and skills in teaching. An example of this would be a elementary school teacher. They have a general knowledge of all subjects and they have a great skill on how to teach those subjects to their students. The second is content knowledge which is having great knowledge of something, but not being able to teach it. An example of this would be a Scientist who is really intelligent, but can not seem to teach others about science very well. The third is technological knowlege which is knowledge with technology and understanding how to communicate to others how to use technology. An example of this would be my IPT teacher, Keith Proctor! There is one example of my past that I can think of where the TPACK model was used. My chemistry teacher in highschool was great! She was a chemist and very intelligent in chemistry. She was an example of content knowledge because she was very knowledgable in chemistry. She was great at teaching the subject of chemistry as well which shows she had great pedagogical knowledge. She used technology to us experiments and she would show us films and things to show her technological knowledge. There are different kinds of representations of technologies. There is textual, which is reading the text. There is visual, which is watching something. There is auditory, which is listening to something. There is dynamic, which is interactive. Last there is multimodal, which is using all of the different representations. I explored many technologies in this class. One that I enjoyed quite a bit was Google Earth. On Google Earth there were several representations of textual, visual, auditory, dynamic, and multimodal. This is amazing! Google Earth uses all representations. This would be so helpful for the students because each student learns a different way. One student may be a visual learner while the other is a textual learner. This is great for all students!