Week 2 TPAC

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. At the heart of the TPACK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK). See Figure above. As must be clear, the TPACK framework builds on Shulman’s idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.


http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack/what-is-tpack/

Week 1- Prensky-learning styles.

I have found Prensky's articles and ideas very interesting. I would consider myself digital immigrant but i guess it depends on your personality and the money you want to spend on the technology, there is so much on offer everywhere. I am not natural with technology but after reading the articles and also after myself experiencing the situtaion at school, it is pretty convincing that things need to change.  I agree that the teachers need to adapt to kids and not the other way around. There are generally 30 kids in the class and only one teacher, so it is clear who is going to win, the teachers need to play according to the new rules. The students have a right to be bored and have a right to protest against something they no longer relate to. We, as teachers should be happy that the kids have courage to protest and express opinions, we only need to learn how to work with them and that way they will learn, we could also learn with them, kids will be more than happy to show us how to use some programs as long as they will see that are making an effort to communicate in their language. Why not learn something new?life is about learning, lets learn together with students, lets make a difference successfully and meaningfully.

Learning style activity.

I am still catching up on some of the week 1 stuff....
Ok-i have done the test on learning styles and it is great!!!i thought i know things about myself but i guess i didn't know all that much about my learning preferences....my score rested close on the first 3 columns but the last column showed that I am a global learner, it didn't come as a surprise, it is just hard to put into words, the parts of me i guess.... global learners absorb material randomly and that's me, sometimes it can be hard because i do like to see the big picture and the facts just don't do it for me...All the material on learning styles was very beneficial and interesting...Again computers are making it possible to complete these sort of tests, in the future the students could complete these tests and the teachers could make decisions according to the results.

I have also read some parts of the Sir Ken Robinson's Transcript and the line that stuck with me is: Don't be afraid to be wrong! That is so true...we miss out if we don't try! it is important to dare and be different.....nobody likes boring, identical teachers and there is no need to have more of them...let's be different!