TPACK Framework for Planning Technology Integration Marcia Torgrude Technology Education Specialist

TPACK “Successful technology integration is rooted in curriculum content and students’ content- related learning processes, first, and, second, in savvy use of educational technologies.” “The specialized, highly applied knowledge that supports content-based technology integration is known as ‘technological pedagogical content knowledge’ or TPACK.” (Koehler &Mishra 2008)

What is the TPACK Framework? Technological Knowledge (TK) Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) Content Knowledge (CK) Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

What is: CK PK TK PCK TCK TPACK Develop one statement Groups of 3 or 4 Write a one sentence descriptor of your part of the TPACK framework

Instructional Planning Five basic instructional decisions: – Choosing learning goals - CK – Making practical pedagogical decisions about the nature of the learning experience - PK – Selecting and sequencing appropriate activity types to combine to form the learning experience- PCK, TK, TCK, TPK – Selecting formative and summative assessment strategies that will reveal what and how well students are learning – PCK, TCK – Selecting tools and resources that will best help students to benefit from the learning experience being planned - TPACK

Learning Activity Types Function as conceptual planning tools for teachers Captures what is most essential as it relates to what students do within the standards- based learning experience Combine learning activity types to create lesson plans, projects and units Catalysts to thoughtful and creative instruction by teachers

TPACK Game TPACK Game - TPACK Gamehttp://tinyurl.com/7vjhq5b Work as a group to determine what the missing part could be to provide a good TPACK model for promoting the student learning.

New Underwood TPACK Plan What does the process look like? Technology Integration Observation Instrument Technology Integration Observation Instrument

Technology Integration Target If learning goals have been selected well… If pedagogical decisions have been made according to students’ instructional and contextual realities… If activity types and assessment strategies have been selected to address those goals and realities… Then choices of instructionally appropriate tools and resources to use in the learning experience are more obvious. Technology Integration to promote student learning will become prevalent in Classrooms!

TPACK Resources Technology Integration Observation Instrument Technology Integration Observation Instrument