TPCK Chapter 11 & 12

TPACK Chapter 11 & 12

Developing TPCK

           

When reading through these two chapters, I think that the quote on page 223 really sums up what is wrong with the current type of teaching as well as what needs to be done to increase the level of knowledge and education in our students. It says, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, then we rob our children of tomorrow.” I feel that this is absolutely true. If teachers do not look into the future as to what our students should know and be able to do, then we are not serving our students the way we should. Introducing technology is a way to integrate and apply the otherwise unattainable material and content to real life situations and applications and the experience of using technological resources will familiarize students with the real world.

“Tomorrow’s teachers must be prepared to rethink, unlearn and relearn, change, revise, and adapt”  (pg. 225). I feel that all teachers need to display this philosophy in order to be successful. One way to assure this happens is through differentiation of content matter. This will allow teachers to reach all learning styles and abilities. Technology can help to aid this bridge among content gaps and learner abilities.  With teaching ELL students, we are definitely trained and emerged into classrooms, which require us to differentiate in order for our students to understand and be successful. I feel that the area that we lack would be our technological pedagogy. We tend to have a hard time with finding sources that strongly support our teaching and curriculum, that are not either to low or to high for our students. This would be the area that I would need to work on to become a better teacher.