TPACK framework for ICT integration

TPACK framework for ICT integration

By Veronica Sarungi

Multiple Choice

What does TPACK emphasize with regard to ICT integration?

• Importance of mastery

• Relevance and being up-to-date

• Interplay of different types of knowledge

• Role of teachers and students

Interplay of knowledge types

TPACK framework builds on the complex interplay of three types of knowledge (Content, Pedagogical, Technological) teachers require for ICT integration and the intersection of these knowledge (for example Technological Pedagogical Knowledge). The framework extends Shulman's views on Pedagogical Content Knowledge

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Interplay of knowledge types

​TCK

An understanding of the manner in which technology and content influence and constrain one another.

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Technological Content Knowledge

Open Ended

What key message can be taken from the TPACK image that includes the dotted outer circle?

​Situation and context matters

"Individual teachers, grade-level, school-specific factors, demographics, culture, and other factors ensure that every situation is unique, and no single combination of content, technology, and pedagogy will apply for every teacher, every course, or every view of teaching."

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See: ​http://www.tpack.org/

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Context

Multiple Choice

What phrase can be used to describe TPACK as the intersection of the intersection knowledges?

• Complex zone

• Sweet spot

• Merged ideas

• Effective approach

​Mishra and Koehler (2009)

“TPACK is different from knowledge of all three concepts individually. Instead, TPACK is the basis of effective teaching with technology, requiring an understanding of the representation of concepts using technologies; pedagogical techniques that use technologies in constructive ways to teach content; knowledge of what makes concepts difficult or easy to learn and how technology can help redress some of the problems that students face; knowledge of students’ prior knowledge and theories of epistemology; and knowledge of how technologies can be used to build on existing knowledge to develop new epistemologies or strengthen old ones”

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TPACK definition

Reflect on your own practice and how you use technology, plan for increased ICT integration, and involve others on how TPACK framework could be used for technology integration so as to improve students' learning experience and outcomes.

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