TPACK PRESENTATION: TRANSLATOR´S POV

The Translator

Hi! I am Francisco Álvarez and this week I´ll be the translator of my group. In the task of this week we have learn a lot of TPACK and about the related concepts with TPACK. The concepts of this task were unknown for me but now, I can understand better the function and the importance of TPACK in live in general and particularly in education. Like translator, I have to choise five terms and explain with my own words.

The 5 most important terms that we have been learnt on the week are the following:

• Technology: Technology is a class of knowledge about a specfic area. Technology require diferent technical skills to use a product. Technology implies a lot of knowledge, techniches and tools. Technology is very important in the concept of TPACK and it´s necessary to know this concept to understand better the concept of TPACK.

• Pedagogy: Pedagogy is a discipline that deal with the theory and practice of education. One of the most important goals of the pedagogy is a better practice of education. This term it´s important in the concept of TPACK, it´s the second letter of this word. To understand this term, we need to know what is pedagogy? and we need a good pedagogy to aply the TPACK.

• Content: Are the subjects or topics covered in a book or document. The contents are the things must included in a document, a book, a programming, etc.The content must be referred of the subject or topic that we want to teach. Content change in the different stages of education, in the different subjects of the education and with different teacher of the same subject. The content i the TPACK are content with a technological relatioship. 

• Knowledge: Knowledge is the whole a person know.  The knowledge is everything we learn and everything we remember due to the education, the life experience, etc. We need knowledge to understand the life, to understan the world. There are many forms to acquire knowledge. In the concept of TPACK, the knowledge is an important term to understand it. 

• Context: The context is the situation where something happen. The context situate something in a place and in atime. To talk about TPACK we need to situate this term in a context (educational, pedagogical, technological, etc). When we talk about TPACK we must situate us in a concrete situation. 

CONCLUSION

The first four terms build the concept of TPACK. This concept is the key to undertand the task due to that word is the set of the other four words.

TPACK is a framework taht identifies the knowledge teachers need to teach effectively with technology (Koehler and Mishra, 2009)

I hope that you have learnt very much with this post. See you soon!