The technology integrated unit I worked on with Angela and Kelly was on organizing and graphing data. Our unit reflects the TPCK model because it contains its three components: content, pedagogy, and technology. The content was mathematics, our pedagogy was displayed by students being actively engaged throughout the lesson, and technology was incorporated by utilizing the National Library for Virtual Manipulatives website.
Our successes were that we collaborated on the unit just as teachers would do in a school setting; were each of us took an active role in the planning. After our collaboration time, we thoroughly delivered the lesson. On the other hand, finding time to collaborate was difficult with others involved. Just like teachers today; who face difficulty with finding a common plan time to collaborate.
Overall the technology integrated in our unit was age and ability level appropriate. We used the National Library for Virtual Manipulatives’ data analysis and probability grades 3-5 graph bar activity. The website served as a great tool for students to display their understanding in a creative and innovative way.
The idea of TPCK isn't just that your lesson hits all three domains -- it would be impossible to do a lesson that does not incorporate all three domains. What I think the TPCK model does is to highlight the _interaction_ of the content, pedagogy and technology domains -- how did technology affect the content of your lesson? your pedagogy? and vice versa, and how did the three come together?
ReplyDeleteIt was a very good lesson, and your collaboration was evident.
Technology made the connection to the content to their lives which made it more appealing to the students. I also feel using the website allowed for the students to enhance the knowledge they already had to organizing and graphing data.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to pedagogy, I feel mine is ever changing because of technology. Ten years ago when I first started teaching I didn't worry too much about using computers on a daily basis, but now I am more aware, and utilize them more and make sure it is relevant and correlates with the core curriculum.
In the end, I feel the use of technology can and did improve lessons, and our lesson as a whole demonstrated that.