TPACK, Activity Types, Introductory Tools

1. Welcome to EDUC 223
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Technology for the 21
Century
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Professor: Dr. Meredith Kier
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1) Your name
2) Semester Schedule
3) Best way for me to contact you if I
need to.

2. Pinterest
Live Binders
Twitter
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We will find awesome
resources for our
students!!

3. 
Diigo
We will learn how to
organize our technologies!

4. Animoto
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We are going to heighten
our presentations!

5. Dr. Kier
January 15, 2014

6. Topics Today

7. •Standards
Planning Guide •CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2 Write informative/explanatory
1. What objective do you
choose?
2. What will you (the
teacher) do?
3. What will you have
students do?
4. How will you know if
students have learned?
texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.
•CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2a Introduce a topic clearly and
group related information in paragraphs and sections;
include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and
multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
•CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2b Develop the topic with
facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other
information and examples related to the topic.
•CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2c Link ideas within categories
of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for
example, also, because).
•CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2d Use precise language and
domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain
the topic.
•CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2e Provide a concluding
statement or section related to the information or
explanation presented.

8. What’s TPACK?

9. T = Technological
P = Pedagogical
A
= Nothing--Tricky place holder
C = Content
K = Knowledge

10. Knowing how to
teach with
instructional
technologies in
ways that
students will
learn is
considered a
special kind of
knowledge

12. Reporting Out
Let me have a group
volunteer:
- Which Objective?
- What did the teacher
do? (What kind of
knowledge does the
teacher need to have?)
- What did the
students do?
- How do you know if
students have
learned?

13. Got TPACK?

14. Reporting Out
Let me have a group
volunteer:
- Which Objective?
- What did the
students do? (What
kind of knowledge do
they need to have?
What kind of
knowledge does the
teacher need to have?)

15. High TPACK? What Kind of Knowledge?

16. Reporting Out
Let me have a group
volunteer:
- Which Objective?
-How do you know
that students learned?
(What kind of
knowledge did the
teacher need to have?
The students?)

17. What Kind of Knowledge?

18. Avoiding “Technocentrism”
• Seymour Papert (1987) calls it “technocentric” when
instruction is planned starting with the digital tools
and resources that will be used.
• If you do this, the lesson is focused upon the
technologies being used, more than the students who
are trying to use them to learn.

19. Activity Types to help with planning
• Ways to help teachers add instructional
technologies to their teaching that
corresponds with how most teachers plan
• Start with the Goals, end with the
Instructional technologies
• http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/

20. Using Activity Types to Plan
• Choosing learning goals
• Making practical pedagogical decisions about the
nature of the learning experience
• Selecting and sequencing appropriate activity types to
combine to form the learning experience
• Selecting formative and summative assessment
strategies that will reveal what and how well students
are learning
• Selecting tools and resources that will best help
students to benefit from the learning experience being
planned

21. “Affordances” of Technology
Pros & Cons -- Why use it?
OVERHEAD
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Display written work on regular paper
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Show demonstrations without
blocking view
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Show calculator
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Students can show work from regular
paper
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Sometimes hard to see if writing is
too light”
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Display written work on clear
overhead sheet
Easy to “muss up” from erasable
marker

22. Can you think of other Instructional
technology examples to compare?

23. Instructional
Te c h n o l o g i e s

24. Howard University
Your Task…
1. Access your Diigo file and examine the fourth grade common core
standard
2. In pairs or group of three’s, select an objective to teach.
3. Write out a step by step plan for a one hour class showing how you
would introduce the lesson and teach the content.
4. Use Pinterest, Livebinders, or the internet to find an activity that
could be used to help you teach the objective
5. Use your activity type resources to identify technology that would
assist you in teaching the lesson.