Midterm 1 Flashcards
What is the TPACK framework?
Teacher understanding how tools can enhance teaching and support student learning.
TPACK is a framework developed by Punya Mishra and Matt Koehler (2006) to help teachers consider how their knowledge domains intersect in order to effectively teach and engage students with technology. TPACK is based on the work of Educational Psychologist Lee Shulman (1986), who suggested that all teachers need to develop at least two overlapping knowledge domains
What does TPACK stand for?
technological pedagogical content knowledge
Technological knowledge?
- Select, use and intergrate tech into the curriculum
- Quality of content students access though tech
Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)?
-How tech is used in a subject for deep and lasting learning
Content Knowledge (CK)
- It’s the what
- The key subjects (litterature, science ect.)
- It’s the facts, concepts and theories
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)
- Mix of PK and CK
- Teaching at it’s best
Pedagogical knowledge (PK)
- The how
- Teaching strategies, instructionnal method, assessments (projects based learning)
Technological Pedagocical Knowledge (TPK)
- What tech will best help them learn and share their learning
- How to choose and manage tech for your students
What is complicating teaching with technology (koehler, mishra)
It is an understanding that technologies are neither neutral nor unbiased. Rather, particular technologies have their own propensities, potentials, affordances, and constraints that make them more suitable for certain tasks than others (Bromley, 1998; Bruce, 1993; Koehler & Mishra, 2008). 61
What Social and contextual factors also complicate the relationships between teaching and technology. (koehler, mishra)
Social and institutional contexts are often unsupportive of teachers’ efforts to integrate technology use into their work. Teachers often have inadequate (or inappropriate) experience with using digital technologies for teaching and learning.
Why is there no “one best way” to integrate technology into curriculum. (koehler, mishra)
Rather, integration efforts should be creatively designed or structured for particular subject matter ideas in specific classroom contexts. Honoring the idea that teaching with technology is a complex, ill-structured task, we propose that understanding approaches to successful technology integration requires educators to develop new ways of comprehending and accommodating this complexity. 62
Why is TPACK is the basis of effective teaching with technology?
requiring an understanding of the representation of concepts using technologies; pedagogical techniques that use technologies in constructive ways to teach content; knowledge of what makes concepts difficult or easy to learn and how technology can help redress some of the problems that students face; knowledge of students’ prior knowledge and theories of epistemology; and knowledge of how technologies can be used to build on existing knowledge to develop new epistemologies or strengthen old ones. 66
The broad dimensions of learning as summarised by Darling Hammond, Austin, Orcutt, and Rosso (2001) are:
- The brain plays a role in learning. The brain processes external stimuli coming in from the outside world through our senses to make sense of the information and to draw connections.
- The learning environment and surrounding stimuli makes a difference. Individuals learn better in environments that are rich with stimuli, where the teacher provides scaffolding and opportunities to build understanding, where regular feedback is provided to the learner, where the content is relevant to his/her lives and where there is access to explanations and discussions with teachers and peers.
- Learning is based on associations. Learning new knowledge is a process of mak- ing connections between the new information with what is already known (prior knowledge).
- Learning occurs in social and cultural contexts. Culture influences the experi- ences that individuals bring to the classroom, how they communicate and what they think is worth learning.
What is learning theory and what is there a value?
An explanation of what happens when learning takes place and what influences its development.
(a) provide a conceptual framework for interpreting what we observe and
(b) a position to finding solutions
to maximise the capacities of the three brains for learning, teachers should?
(a) teach to avoid reptilian brain behaviour by creating a safe learn- ing environment for their students. Such actions include acknowledgement of work that has been attempted or done well, celebrate achievements and minimise compe- tition that could threaten the student’s self-efficacy and confidence;
(b) stimulate the limbic brain to create emotional awareness such as creating familiar associations with experiences through stories and discussions; and
(c) stimulate both the left and right hemispheres of the neocortex with activities that require both analysis (break- ing down) and synthesis (building up).
cognitive constructivism
-is that knowledge resides in individuals and cannot be given or transmitted whole to learners by their teachers
Dr. Michael Spector’s definition of Educational technology
involves the disciplined application of knowledge for the purpose of improving learning, instruction, and/or performance.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) definition of Educational technology
the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources
What is Learning ABOUT Technology
With the advent of microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as the Apple Personal Computer.
Education focused on teaching the nuts and bolts of technology
How and why things work? (Hardware, Programming)
Today we see Learning ABOUT Technology:
Maker movement in Education: LEGO Robotics, 3D printer, Coding & Computational Thinking
What is Learning FROM Technology
-machine if teacher
-behaviourism
-1920s Sidney Pressey’s Teaching Machine, Motivated by Behaviourism, but influenced by progressive education.
Pressey believed every student should be educated individually by teaching to the test.
-LaZerte’s Problem Cylinder (1930)
-B. F. Skinner’s teaching machine (1954), Immediate knowledge, Motivating effect, move at their pace,carefully constructed program, in small steps, Mastery learning
-PLATO – 1960 (computer teaching machine)
Programmed Logic Automated Teaching Operations, innovations: touch screen, email
-International Business Machines (IBM)
1500 Series - teaching machine (1966)
What is Learning WITH Technology
-mindtools, powerpoint, to improve critical thinking and problem-solving.
-constructionism
-This approach to technology integration started to appear in late 1980s as microcomputers and software products became more sophisticated and could be used to help solve problems, and represent knowledge …
Generic software tools: Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Databases, Multimedia & Video Construction, Concept Mapping (e.g., Popplet), Mathematica…
What is learning?
The brain plays a role
Environment & surrounding stimuli
Based on Associations
Occurs in social & cultural context
B.F. Skinner’s theory?
- behaviourism: attempted to describe human behavior in terms of rewards or punishments.
- In technology-supported learning environments, behavioural changes are evident in drill-and-practice programs that use instant positive feedback, this reinforces the student to continue interacting with the instructional program.
Jean Piaget’s theory?
Constructivism
- A learner must construct/build their own knowledge progressively through experiences.
- Stage theorist (intellectual development & biological development are linked)
- Sensorimotor (birth - ~2) (develop object permanence)
1. Take a red ball and move it in front of child, child follows it, you put it Behind back and child forgets. - Preoperational ( ~2 - ~7) (egocentric language)
2. Kids always saying ‘I did this, I did that’. Egocentric talk - Concrete operational ( ~7 - ~12) (physical objects)
3. Kids is able to use logical thought to physical tasks. - Formal operational ( ~12 - forever)
4. Where abstract reasonable ability is developed.
Vygotsky theory?
Social Constructivism
-Whereas Piaget was more about the individual,
Lev Vygotsky was more about the community.
-Children Co-construct knowledge through interaction with others (peers, advanced peers, adults)
-Learning can lead development
Child counting objects (level of assisted performance)
-Development cannot be separated from its social context.
-Language development plays a central role in cognitive development
-proposes that learning takes place in the Zone of Proximal Development (what the student already knows, what a student can learn with help, and what the student does not know)
Bruners theory?
- building from constructivism: discovery learning
- learning takes place best in problem solving situations, where the learner draws on past experiences and existing knowledge to discover facts and relationships.
- Learner interacts with the world by exploring and manipulating objects, wrestling with questions, or performing experiments.
- Learner is more likely to remember concepts when knowledge is discovered
Seymour Papert theory?
- Constructionism
- The word with the n expresses the further idea that this happens most felicitously when the learner is engaged in the construction of something external or at least sharable… a sand castle, a machine, a computer program, a book, [a robot].”