Jeannette, thanks for your posting here. In some way we are all new to TPACK, particularly given how fast technology and contexts for learning are evolving. This discussion, on the other hand, hasn't really moved much in the past few months, which i…
Well said Dawn. The only thing I would add to your last sentence is to rephrase it as follows: When I can give them the technology skills required to meet an instructional need for teaching specific content..." etc. etc.
The words in bold are the o…
Adora, I think you placed it just right. And to give credit to the point Dan has been making, the tools we have now are more sophisticated than crayons, markers, paints etc.
On a slightly different note, it is always fun for me to see how different…
Dan, I think that the TPACK framework does exactly what you are suggesting. It values technology as an agent of change. Most rhetoric in Ed Psy academic circles ignore the possibilities that new technologies bring. Be it twitter (or other form of mi…
Milan, thanks for bringing up the question of teacher belief - a critical issue, as you rightly point out. Ertmer (2005) reviews a ton of research that shows (in accordance with your note above) that technology is "unlikely to be used unless teacher…
Matt T., I don't think that anybody considering us as being colleagues is making a mistake! I just happen to have two colleagues called Matt (doesn't everybody).
Heidi, a couple of issues/questions here that I will try to address to the best of my ability.
First, developing TPACK. There have been various strategies that have been suggested. Learning by Design is one of them (an overview can be found in a co…
Wish I could claim credit for that, subtle yet crucial distinction, but it was Czsiksentmihaly (I am sure I messed up the spelling of that name!) who talked about it in his book on Creativity. Too often we think of big "C" creativity - which I think…
Thanks. I look forward to getting to know all of you. I have also invited Leigh Wolf to the community. She is very interested in the role of web 2.0 to education. thanks ~ punya
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