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This is the third post in a series about TPACK. When I was an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida, a professor assigned us to read “Critical Pedagogy: Notes for the Real World” by Joan Wink (now in it’s 4th edition, we read the first… J). As we read the book and discussed, I remember the professor, Dr. Becker, ...

This is the second post in a continuing series about TPACK. When using TPACK, (please click here to access an overview of TPACK), I like to start with the Content Knowledge (CK) component. In their seminal article, Koehler and Mishra (2009) explained CK as “Teachers’ knowledge about the subject matter to be learned or taught” (para. 10), and I agree. ...

This blog is the first in a series that will discuss TPACK and offer ideas for using it. With these blogs, my goal is to capture teachers, researchers, and instructional coaches in a discussion that uses TPACK as a platform for effective classroom teaching. In this post, I offer information about TPACK’s background with the purpose of building a foundational ...

Being in the field of educational apps is exciting and I continually learn new facts. However, one of the most alarming ones that I am finding is how teachers learn about tablets and educational apps. In a 2014 report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they surveyed over 3,100 teachers and found that teachers learn about instructional technology “primarily ...

Early learning is being influenced by technology in similar ways that PreK-12 and higher education are. The key, however, is that the ways in which we use technology with our youngest learners has to support them in their development into becoming a fully rounded person, and a clear delineation between what is educational versus what is entertaining must be considered. ...