TPACK PRESENTATION: ANALYST'S POV

This week we have worked in a poster which represented what is TPACK. The best part of the activity has been that all people in the group has participated and provided ideas. Maybe the worse part of the activity has been that our poster has not been too much creative, because it was the typical representation of TPACK with the three circles of colours. Even so, it was made with the computer (technology), so we have put in practice the TPACK model.

The best moment of the week has been the first moment that we got together to decide how to we were going to work, because all of us were motivated and anxious for doing a good work. The worse moment of the week was when we had to print the poster, because we had some problems to print it with the size that we wanted. We expected to create a bigger poster but we could not do it.

Basically, we have learnt about what is TPACK and how this model help teachers to teach using the technology. We have learnt that we, as future teachers, need to know to use technology, to explain to our pupils the contents that they need to acquire in a pedagogical way, (“how to teach the contents”).

The TPACK is described as complex interaction among three bodies of knowledge: Content, pedagogy, and technology. The interaction of these bodies of knowledge, both theoretically and in practice, produces the types of flexible knowledge needed to successfully integrate technology use into teaching. (Mishra, 2007)

As a group, we need to conserve for the next activities the good organization that we have had, because all of us have done its part of the work, so also we should conserve the excitement and the motivation of the first week because always the enthusiasm of doing a good work is a big aid.