Week 3

From my experience with TPACK and understanding what means, I have come to the understanding of the various ways technology can be used in the classroom. In every classroom no two students are going to learn the same way and through understanding TPACK, and how there are two types of technological tools, content-domain and pedagogy, a teacher can use both methods to increase not only content knowledge but the relational thinking of a student. Students may learn from databases or computers, but by also incorporating pedagogy, students are able to see how the content knowledge would help them and they can apply concepts to what they see in experiments or hands on activities. Teachers need to have this knowledge because they have to learn how to teach to the individual, not just the group. Some students will learn by specific tools better and faster than others and if a teacher knows how to use both tools, not only procedural, but relational thinking of students will occur. Teachers will also be able to evaluate how much of the concept the students understand by having the students apply their knowledge in activities, or pedagogical assessments.