ISTE 2011 Monday, June 27 TPACK and Professional Development

Judi Harris
College of William and Mary

Slides are on ISTE Site

We are people who help teachers learn.
Concepts and Strategies
Stop designing strategies around the tools. Instead approach with learning needs.
TPACK is a way to stop the tail from wagging the dog.
Shift the conversation from teaching the tool using the tech for effective teaching.
"Pedagogical Content Knowledge" Lee Schulman 1985
The intersection at tech, pedagogy, and content is where we live! Graphing calculator example was spot on.
The t, p and c are all interdependent - one thing changes, and all things change.
Tech is sometimes complex and daunting when combined with the burden of content. This brings into importance content pedagogical skills. This is huge.
Spend $$$ on pedagogy not all on tech skills. A shift needs to happen with PD in Ed tech.
What we are not necessarily good at is the range of PD.
Etpd.wm.edu types of PD
Teachers probably need only basic tech skills but heavy content and pedagogical skill.
Choosing, matching the affordances of the tool leveraged to task is key.
The TPACK Game!
4 colored cards and write a standard per card.Write the type of learning activities, I.e. Think pair share.
List the tech on another card. Mix, choose, and ask ..... Does this fit, why or why not?
Could put other things like affective domain things as well in the mix.
How TPACK is being deployed
Inquiry and reflection
Learning by design
Modeling
Micro teaching
Self assessment
How about if we worked TPACK into the times when we are coaching?
Situational, context, activity-based, and routinized in a set of activity types.
If we know this, why not activity-based planning? This approach is called learning activity types.WOW!
Actvitytypes.wmwikis.net
This is a potential tool for us to use as we create scaffolding for teachers and for us to create our containers. We need to view these as suggestions.
Call it a scaffold, template, guide...I see us fitting into this model seamlessly!
There is a rubric!
Activity types.wmwikis.net/assessments
TPACK.org
Go online to ISTE site to get all the slides.