Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

A Framework for Teacher Knowledge

Presented by Stephanie Sampson

This session will look at

The place of technology in teaching and learningCurrent teacher trainingTPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher trainingTPCK in action-examples of successful teacher trainingWhy have a theoretical framework like TPCK?

Technology in Teaching and Learning – how does it fit?

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological

criminal.”-Albert Einstein

Technology in Teaching and Learning – how does it fit?

The advent of digital technology has dramatically changed routines and practices in most arenas of human work.

Routines and practices in Education have undoubtedly encountered changes, but are they dramatic?

It has become clear…that in Education, the reality has lagged far behind the vision.

Current Teacher training

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

-Albert Einstein

Current Teacher training

A tendency to look only at the technology and not how it is used.

A conceptually based theoretical framework about the relationship between technology and teaching [like TPCK] can transform…teacher education, teacher training, and teachers’ professional development.

Relationships between teaching and technology and complex and contextually bound – there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used

when we created them." -Albert Einstein

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Old-school trends in teacher education

Content Pedagogy

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Newer-school trends in teacher education

Content Pedagogy

Pedagogical-content Knowledge

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Technological trends in teacher education

Content Pedagogy

Pedagogical-content Knowledge

Technology

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

TPCK at a Glance

Content Pedagogy

Pedagogical-content Knowledge

TechnologyTechnological Pedagogical

Knowledge

Technological Content Knowledge

Technological Pedagogical content Knowledge

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Content Knowledgefacts, information, concepts, theories, the

what

Pedagogical KnowledgeMethod, processes, practices, techniques, the

how

Pedagogical Content KnowledgeHow to teach “the what”

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Technological KnowledgeKnowledge about standard technologies – how to use

them

Whiteboard, books, internet, digital video

Technological Content knowledgeHow the subject matter can be changed by the

application of technology

Technological Pedagogical KnowledgeKnowledge about how a range of technological

tools can support teaching.

TPCK framework as a guide to more effective teacher training

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

The basis of good teaching with technologyPedagogical techniques that use technologies in constructive ways to teach contentKnowledge of what makes concepts difficult or easy to learn and how technology can help redress some of the problems that students faceKnowledge of how technologies can be used to build on existing knowledge and to develop new epistemologies or strengthen old ones

TPCK in Action

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

-Albert Einstein

TPCK in Action

Learning Technology by DesignThe development of TPCK co-evolved with an effort to teach courses that develop teachers’ understanding of technology.

Learning is best supported when the content is part of a context that the students can perceive as meaningful, assign value to the subject matter, and develop an understanding of the relation of it with their lives (Lave, 1997)

Design-based activities provide a rich context for learning.

TPCK in Action

Making Movies

TPCK in Action

Learning Technology by Designin EDUC9701

What new technological skills have you acquired so far in this topic?

What connections have you formed between your new-found skills and the concepts/ideas relating to using ICT for teaching and learning?

Why have a theoretical framework like TPCK?

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he

learned in school." -Albert Einstein

Why have a theoretical framework like TPCK?

To guide observation (p1039)

To make sense of the complex web of relationships that exist when teachers attempt to apply technology to the teaching of subject matter

To allow us to conceptualize and discuss

To give us the language to talk about it (p1044)

Why have a theoretical framework like TPCK?

To allow us to understand what good teaching with technology is about and also to make predictions about contexts under which such good teaching will occur

To tell us how we can apply the ideas to the real world

To allow us to critique simplistic approaches toward developing teacher knowledge and assist us in developing better learning environments (p1045)

“The goal of teacher education is not to indoctrinate or train teachers to behave in prescribed ways, but to educate teachers to reason soundly about their teaching as well as to perform skillfully.” (Shulman, 1987, p. 13)

References

Mishra, P. & Koehler, M. J. (2006). Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A new framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers college Record, 108(6), 1017-1054.

Harris, K. (1995), Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein, retrieved 19 March 2012, from http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html.