In addition to learning about how different technological developments are impacting today's society, I also found it interesting learning about Technological pedagogical content knowledge, also known as TPACK. What interested me the most was that there was actually quite interesting names for the different types of knowledge. While I know the different names for the types of learners that can be in an environment, I did not know the type of knowledge that each one could contain. For teachers, it is important that each must attain content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and technological knowledge. I read over the definitions of these and got that "OH! Duh, that makes sense!" moment. In order for me to become a successful teacher I must embrace into my teaching TPACK. This will not only make me a successful teacher, but my students will be successful as well.
Finally, the last subject of interest I would like to discuss is from the section "Digital Identity and Social Media." Social media has a big impact on whether or not someone gets hired for a particular position, especially teaching. Because I am seventeen years old, a period of my time each day is spent on social media. I am not always posting on the internet, but I do browse it. Teachers have to create a professional look. Students must be able to look up to the teacher and parents must feel comfortable sending their children into the classroom with that teacher. Teachers influence the youth surrounding us. While social media not only influences whether or not someone is hirable I found it interesting that you could also use social media as a showcase of your own teaching talents! I did not know that if I featured my own lesson plans, they would get noticed. The Web can either make you or break you.
APA Citations
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
TPACK commercial (whiteboard / UPS version). (n.d.). Retrieved January 17, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3YNbn-_c4
You hit the nail on the head in your last statement, but I would word it just a bit differently to give ownership to the individual..."You have the opportunity to let the web either make you or break you." :) Social media is, of course, huge right now and to not think about how it can impact the institution of education and/or the role of learning is problematic. Too many people think that if you 'ban' it, it will go away - why not try to find some ways to either positively use it in the classroom (and thus, teach some of the ethics needed) or at least see if there aren't ways to study it's influences. ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat video to show off the main points of TPACK - and also lead readers to the TPACK.org site. Multimedia and interactivity definitely enhance a blog post.