Monday, May 30, 2011

What is TPACK?


TPACK is a framework used by educators to assist in the successful process of integrating technology into the classroom. It speaks the convoluted, multifarious, and situated nature of teacher knowledge. The complex relationship of three principal forms of knowledge, Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK) are all at the core of the framework. True technology integration is to understand and navigate the relationships between the three components of knowledge. A teacher must be capable of negotiating these relationships in order to embody a form of expertise atypical of yet greater than that of the knowledge of a disciplinary expert (i.e.; mathematician or a historian), a technology expert (a computer scientist) and a pedagogical expert (an experienced educator).