Week 11-- TPACK project

Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge--

TK-- techological knowledge is required to understand and use technology, or tools. (Downloading, knowing what software does what, where to find it, etc.)

PK-- pedagogical knowledge is related to the general methods and skills of teaching.

CK-- content knowledge has to do with knowledge of certain subjects or topics like math, history, etc.

Combinations of these 3 components are good, but in order for a teacher to be most effective, they need all 3 together: content knowledge, knowledge and skills to teach that content best to kids, and the technology to make it interesting and fun and applicable for kids.

There are also different ways to teach a concept with representations, such as:
Textual-- reading
Visual-- look at pictures, graphs, etc.
Auditory-- listening to speeches, podcasts, etc.
Dynamic-- usually has to do with technology that allows children to interact (a website that allows them to control and explore)
Multimodal-- Contains a combination of several of the above representations
** Which will be most interesting and of most benefit to students? **

Most of the technologies we have looked at in this class are dynamic, which I think would be more interesting to kids, especially SpEd kids.