TPCK

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) is the seamless integration of technology with the teaching methods that work best for students, tied together with the content knowledge that students need. In this discussion, we stressed the importance of doing this 'integration of teaching components.' These are some of the ideas I found to be most relevant for this discussion:

• A good teacher is a well rounded teacher. A teacher that is only good at one of the three components and fails to incorporate the other two will fail their students.
• No matter how intimidated we may be regarding new technology, it is in our students' best interests to keep up with it and use in in the classroom as much as possible.
• Make sure you are comfortable using technology before implementing it in the classroom and having your students use it.
• Technology can really enhance content knowledge for students.

I thought this was a great discussion. The reading gave me a good sense of what TPCK is and the discussion explored the various implications, advantages, and disadvantages. I thought the different sub-topics were well defined and helped to point the conversation in many different directions. Overall, I thought it was a great way to get us thinking about TPCK and the ways in which we can approach this in our own teaching.