Thursday, January 22, 2009

TPACK

TPACK stands for technological pedagogical and content knowledge. It is basically using technology to use and help support content in specific areas using pedagogical methods and strategies to teach it. Teachers can teach with just certain parts of like technological and content or with just content. It is best for a teacher to use TPACK when teaching though. It is important for teachers to have this knowledge because teachers can then analyze how they teach and use this knowledge to help fix and adjust their teaching styles. For teachers it is important to be able to have content knowledge on what they are teaching and they also need to have pedagogical knowledge of how to best teach to their students. Finally if a teacher can use technology to help support these other two types of knowledges then the children might become more interested in what they are learning and most technologys will help make teaching easi

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