What is TPACK?
technological Pedagogical and content knowledge
- it is a framework developed by Mishra and Koehler to help teachers understand how their knowledge works together to engage students in technology.
- focuses on the fact that technology is integral to 21’st century learning.
all three overlap
What is Content Knowledge?
a teacher’s subject matter knowledge
what is Pedagogical knowledge?
knowledge of how student’s learn, teaching practices and an understanding of the purposes, values and aims of education.
what is Pedagogical Content knowledge?
intersection of CK and PK
a teachers knowledge of how to effectively engage students in content, subject areas, skills
What is the AECT?
Association for Educational Communication and Technology
What type of historical learning machine did Sidney Pressey make?
automated teaching machine
motivated by behaviorism
an assessment machine
what is LaZerte’s problem cylinder?
1930 machine that checks a students final answer and evaluates their problem solving they did to get there.
B.F Skinner’s teaching machine
to improve teaching methods for spelling, math, science, they used a mechanichal device
what is PLATO?
Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Opperations
- developed at the University of Illinois
- U of A was one of 8 universities that used it.
- one of the first ideas of using technology for education
what does Learning From technology look like?
- integrating technology into education
- all of Pressy, LaZerte and Skinner’s machines were early examples of this
- ## influenced by the theory of Behaviouralism
What does Learning about technology look like?
- came with the invention of microcomputers in the late 70’s
education focused on teaching how and why things work - now it looks like lego, 3D printing, coding
what does Learning with technology look like?
Mind tools: technological tools that can enhance and support problem solving and critical thinking
what is Jean Piaget’s theory of Constructivism?
more about the individual
a learner must construct their own knowledge progressively through experiences
4 stages of constructivisim
What are the 4 stages of constructivism?
sensorimotor - birth - develops object permanence
pre-operational - using egocentric language “I want, I see”
concrete operational - physical objects
formal operational - 12-forever
What is Vygotsky’s theory of Social Constructivism?
more about community
children co-construct knowledge through interaction with others
What is Vygotsky’s zones of proximal development?
inner circle: what the student already knows
middle ring: wha the student can learn with guidance - proximal development
outer circle: what the student doesn’t know
Bruner + Piaget’s version of Constructivism
discovery learning!
- asking questions
- drawing out past experiences
exploring, manipulating objects
how do children learn through interaction?
through a range of concrete thinking and abstract thinking.
Inactive - doing something
Iconic - images
symbolic - symbols - 2+ 2
What is Constructionism? Who developed it?
Seymour Papert
- learning happens when the learner is engaged in the construction of something external or physical - sand castle, robot, lego
learnign comes from creating things and building things
