CH 2

For this week's chapter, I decided to write about objective one which states: Discuss the development of a pedagogical content knowledge for teaching with technology. TPCK is the body and knowledge that is needed to teach with and about technologies. It is often known as the interconnection and intersection of content, technology and pedagogy.

As described, there are four differnent types of thinking; delcarative, procedural, schematic, and strategic. All these are a way of thinking strategically that involves planning, organizing, critiquing and abstracting for the specific content, specific needs and specific situations. Our beliefs about how you learned the content knowledge is most likely affected by how you learned that content. The challenge for teachers today is to overcome and enhance your prior learning and develop new ways of learning with technology so that they can be prepared to teach their students.

There are many questions that are important to consider when teachers are preparing themselves for teaching: Was it easy for them to do? Do they have TPCK that prepares them for integrating technology as a tool for learning? Have they incoporated the pedagogical reasoning to integrate what they know about their subject, what they know about technology, and what they know about teaching and learning? Have they learned to think strategically about their teaching and technology?