TPACK PRESENTATION: JOURNALIST'S POV

THE JOURNALIST

I am Pilar Acosta, the journalist of this first task:

This week our task consisted in making a poster explaining the T-PACK (a framework that identifies the knowledge teachers need to teach effectively with technology). It was our first task, so we took our time to organise it and to make each role clear. To distribute each role, we drew lots. Once everybody was given a role, we started organising the work.

First of all, we chose our mind-map tool: Edraw mind map, “a free mind map software with rich examples and templates which make it easy to create mind maps, brain-storming diagrams, project timeline, life planner, SWOT analysis and sketch maps.” We chose it because it is free and also due to its simplicity. This is the first time we use a tool like this one and we thought it would help to introduce ourselves in this way to organise ideas.

To start working in our weekly task, we made all an Internet research to learn what T-Pack is, and then we divided in different parts the composing terms of T-PACK: first of all, the three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK), and then the intersections between them, representing four more knowledge bases teachers applicable to teaching with technology: Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Technological Content Knowledge (TCK), Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK).

The next step was an individual research of each part, and the distribution of the subjects of our degree, to work deeply in how TPACK is used and developed for each teacher.

When we had our brainstorming session: we shared our researches, and we decided how we were going to do the poster:

Finally, we decided our poster format and the analysed information we were going to put on it. Our facilitator designed and printed it.

Today, we did our presentations in the “speed learning”, a very original and dynamic way to learn from others and to learn by ourselves new resources of teaching.

Noelia (our star this week)

As the journalist, I would like to recommend you a blog I found, it is called Education world. It is “a complete online resource that teachers, administrators and school staff can visit each day to find high-quality and in-depth original content. “ The site is updated daily and it offers news on education topics; lessons plans, printables, worksheets and classroom-ready resources; and tips on how use technology as an educational resource; there is a library of professional development articles and columns as well.

- See more at:

http://www.educationworld.com/help/about.shtml#sthash.7gxg0Seb.dpuf

 As I said above, there is a specific section related to new technologies as educational resources, they recommend you and explain videogames, instruments and tools you can use in the classroom. I think this is very useful for us as future teachers (English teachers) and we can already use it to learn. Furthermore, this section is related to our task about T-PACK.

It is a little early to recommend any blog from our class, due to the little information uploaded, but after having seen some of them I can say I like the design and the appearance of the blog of POWERTEACHERS. I think their information will be clearly shown, and it seems they would take care of it. Its members are: Maria Garcia Zamora, Rebeca Cascales Ribera, Silvia García Martínez, Marina Crevillén Fernández, Alba García Subiela, Anthea Clemente.

That's all for now, I hope you enjoy this post!

Pilar.