TPCK!

TPCK(Technological pedagogical content knowledge) shows how three bodies of components such as concept, pedagogy and technology work together to produce the knowledge that is needed in teachers, for them to be able to integrate technology in a classroom setting. TPCK goes beyond the concepts of these three components; it sets the basis of effective teaching with technology, which requires the understanding of these concepts. Then it is up to the educators to be able to incorporate that knowledge in constructive teaching, through educational games and so on, which demonstrate learning and fun. TPACK also suggests that in order to teach with technology one must constantly be creating, maintaining, and re-establishing a balance between these components.  

Incorporating technology into teaching is not a new concept, it’s just that the definition of technology used in teaching has changes over time such as, there was a time when writing use to be known as a new concept of technology incorporated into teaching. “Learning to become flexible, creative educators who can transcend functional/ fixedness and other barriers is an ongoing and complicated process and must be confronted both pre-and in-service levels.” Teachers can only incorporate the use of technology in their teaching, if they have enough background knowledge and consider themselves capable enough to do so.  

I agree with the fact that teachers should at least have the basic background knowledge about technology due to the increase of technological recourses being used in teaching today; otherwise teaching with inversions of technology can cause many problems in the process of teaching. “The first use describes as an individual tool or technique, and the second use encompasses all tools, techniques and knowledge.”Technology is tool created by human knowledge of combining recourses to produce desired products to solve problems and simplify human lives. If the technology is there, we should incorporate it into teaching for a more constructive learning, through the second sense which includes all of the types of technology used in a classroom rather than just one, such as computers, overhead, projectors, chalk boards, pens, pencils and other supplies which are all necessary in a classroom.