Technology is an undeniable part of our lives. Everything around us is a product of technology. In education, with the increasing amount of technological advancements, educators shaped some frameworks, and I will be focusing on two of them in this post. TPACK developed by Shulman is one of them. TPACK framework focuses on three main factors of learning: content, pedagogy, and technology; and their combinations. A combination of pedagogical knowledge (PK) and content knowledge (CK) is pedagogical content knowledge, PK and technological knowledge (TK) is technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), TK and CK is technological content knowledge (TCK); and a combination of TK, PK and, CK is technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK).
You can see it here.
The SAMR (substitution- augmentation- modification-redefinition) developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura is another framework. Redefinition and modification are the parts of transformation; augmentation and substitution are the parts of enhancement. According to Puentedura's framework (2006), in the substitution phase, technology does not provide any functional changes, in the augmentation phase technology provides a functional change. In the modification phase, technology provides important task redesign, and at the end, in the redefinition phase, technology helps to create a new task that could not have been produced without technology.
Both of these frameworks show a way of integrating technology into our lessons. We are in a technological age and we cannot deny it. As a teacher candidate, I think we should learn how to use technology appropriately in our classes. Our students eventually will have to use technology, so forbidding it in our classes may cause some problems in their futures. We should teach them how they can effectively use it.
.....AAAAND THIS IS THE END.
I hope I could give the message here because I think it is a really important topic in this century. See you next time!
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