Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Strengths 1. Organization/Planning I must say that one of my strengths is organization and planning for the classroom. One of my biggest fears is to walk in a room blind and make an absolute fool of myself in front of twenty or more students During practicum, I spent days planning a lesson and giving myself additional background information that I could on the topic of my lesson. I tended to plan my lessons with the use of multiple outside resources. That was clear when I planned my lesson on…

The purpose of this study is to examine teacher perceptions and experiences with current approaches to professional development in K-12 schools. This study is important to K-12 educators as it will examine opportunities for teachers to utilize technology to pursue professional development relevant to their teaching and learning practice in a flexible learning environment. Additionally, this study will analyze pathways toward developing new and engaging learning experiences that would not be…

Research Study: Creating additional meaning from physical data activities to promote reflection and experiential learning for higher education student-athletes. How long: 1 iteration The influence of physical activity data devices data on student-athletes through the use of focus groups, expert interviews, higher education student interviews, and observations. For a student athlete population enrolled in a four-year undergraduate degree program. The qualitative design-based research study is…

determine whether it is accurate and relevant (Guichard, 2006). The three main categories of thinking are critical (looking at), creative (looking out) and reflective (looking in) (Churchill et al., 2016). If used effectively, this pedagogy can explore content across a wide range, yet also in deep complexity. Ron Richhart identified that dispositional thinking is a combination of a student’s ability, sensitivity, inclination and motivation (Ritchhart, 2002). Additionally, evidence from four…

literacies and the TPACK framework I believe the information from the three can be intertwined in some ways. TPACK emerged as a framework for identifying and understanding the complex interplay of teachers’ technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge and how these knowledge bases influence how a teacher effectively integrates technology into classroom instruction (Hutchison, Beschorner, & Schmidt-Crawford, 2012). While new media literacies are a set of cultural…

learning theories that addressed learning delivered through these new technologies. One of the early frameworks described online courses as “content and support” or as computer supported collaborative learning. As time went on, researchers developed more complete theories such as community of inquiry (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008) and technological pedagogical and…

when considering long-term employment relationships. Flexibility is an astounding characteristic of a digital workplace in the 21st century as the essay will further show. Important characteristics of a digital workplace also include the use of technological devices or tools. The essay will also demonstrate significant periods of changes whereby technology has shown to transform workplaces and educational institutions while looking at some…

different schools. Interviews with two 9th grade teachers (See Table 1) reveals the dichotomy between equity, clearly meaning access to the device as a learning tool resulting in equitable learning experiences, lesson planning with Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in mind, and expectations for students. Teacher two demonstrates an understanding of what the National Education Technology Plan (2016) refers to as non-cognitive…

help them make sense of knowledge” (Debraski 35). The importance of technology has been making its way to the nation’s schools to learn more about the digital age. Technology allows the students not to rely on the teacher to give the answer to questions but it to allow the student to learn their own answer to the question. This new learning style is affected because the students are now searching for the answer instead of relying on the teacher who was the specialist in content by learning,…

Coursera’s rhetoric fits this description well. The “mastery” cluster suggests as strong cause-effect relation between the acquisition of knowledge and life success. Additionally, the primacy given to professors as purveyors of knowledge fits into Burke’s broader association of the lower rungs with “partisan indoctrination,” as Coursera expects students to master knowledge and unquestioningly accept it as the…