Sunday, October 9, 2011
TPACK Framework (Question #1)
What aspiects of knowledge in the TPACK framework do you think you most need to improve for effective technology integration?
Answer: My goal is to inspire students to become independent, life-long learners. The greatest challenge I face is to motivate students to focus on learning the content in social studies and become proficient in using technology to demonstrate their (divergent) understanding of the concepts we cover in class. As I learn how to use technology,I will teach my students to use it in their assignments.
Many teachers share my feeling about children who spend many hours playing video games, texting socially and spending time on non-academic activities. If teachers can instill a sense of purpose when it comes to learning academics and are motivated to learn on their own, then we will benefit as future gnerations are prepared to enter the work force. They will have a career that can be exciting and rewarding. When students demonstrate divergent knowledge, this is when they can be creative, make knowledge their own, then synthesize it in new ways.
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I am sure that this class provides great ways to integrate technology in the classroom. The blogs, wikis, and google docs are great tools if as teachers we can find ways to integrate them into our lessons.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you right now that if you teach more with technology your students will be motivated and inspired to learn more. Technology is a great tool for teaching.
ReplyDeletethat is very true. Technology and the WWW have opened up a tremendous amount of fountains of knowledge. Teaching our students to use these resources to their advantage will always have them one step ahead of the world and a mountain of information (which they know how to use) at their fingertips. All of this knowledge that has been made available is useless if our students don't know how to harness it to learn independently. This is why it is our responsibility to teach critical thinking skills so that they can take what they have available to them and find a way to tweak it, analyze it and turn it into something useful.
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