TPACK !

Nowadays, we are involved in a 

technological society. 
It happens because technology become in an important resource for everyone. 
That´s why I think that a possible question  we as teachers may be ask ourselves is: 

How to incorporate technologies into our classes?

Technology is another resource to teach, which is very popular in children those days. 

It´s clear that technology is not the answer to all he questions and the solution to all the problems we may encounter in our teaching process. However, it´s a way to enrich our classes taking into account our curricular and pedagogical needs. This is what the TPACK model presents to us.  

According to this model, we need to take into account and follow three important decisions:

• ·         Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) referring to the knowledge that allows you to organize and adapt the content in the best way to be taught, selecting the type of activities we want to do, the final outcome, assessment strategies, and so on.

• ·         Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) referring to the knowledge about how content and technology influence on each other, deciding on the topic to be covered and the objectives to be achieved by the students. It implies knowing what type of technology is the best for teaching the content and how to use it effectively in the classroom.
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• ·         Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK): this is the knowledge about how education and technology influence each other. It implies knowing what type of technology is available at the moment, and how it can be adapted for educational purposes, choosing and looking for the appropriate technological resources that will help us to achieve our aims for the class.  

So, the integration of these three items results in Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge or TPACK model. 

You can develop different activities for the different subjects taught at school, incorporating technologies and using CLIL. For example: make presentations on power point, prezi or other resources presented by the teacher, where students have to present/explain about a topic related to what they are learning (science, social studies etc). In other levels, you can encourage students to discuss about different topics online by email, chat, foros, blogs, etc. 

So, it´s important we can incorporate technology into our classes, but we should be conscientious, at the same time, about the decisions we make about why and how we are going to use it !