Analyst Post

Hi! I'm the analyst of this week and with this activity, we have learnt a lot of things. First of all, the best part of the activity according to all my classmates and me has been the development of the activity in class the last day because it was very funny. Also, we liked a lot the interaction between all groups, so in short, the best moment of the week was the development of the activity in class.

On the contrast, for us the worst part probably has been the searching for added information and the elaboration of the mind map, maybe this was the most difficult part, we didn´t know how to elaborate it.

When we were working in groups we learnt what TPACK is, but thanks to this part of the activity (which we did on Thursday-presentations) we understood exactly its definition, its main and secondary characteristics, the relation between them and other forms to work this type of activities. But also we have learnt how to improve the elaboration of this type of activities.

On the contrast, the worst part, especially for our two stars, has been the presentation because TPACK has been the first activity and we didn´t how working in it very well, but I hope that little by little we improve our works!

As a group, all members work very well (in reference to the cooperation). All of us have an interest and we try to effort to obtain good results. Each member helps the others and we learnt to each other. However, we have to improve obviously some things. As we divided the work between all members, probably we have forgotten that each one have to study better his part. In the next weeks, we will try to improve this!

We can link TPACK with another of our subject, TIC. The relation is based on the following word: TECHNOLOGY.

Finally, this content is strongly related with the actual world, so we can establish some links with our present – news. Nowadays, in media, we always see or listen to issues related with TECHNOLOGY and its repercussion in society, its advantages and disadvantages, etc.

In short, TPACK can be considered as an excellent tool to transmit education, and we think that thanks to this activity, we can help to diffuse the importance of it.

Stars Post.

The work of star has been divided between María Dolores and Rosana. Our work consisted on presenting the mind map about TPACK.

In the last classroom on 10th February we explained our mind map. At the same time in this work we have learnt what is TPACK, in this way, Technological Content Knowledge attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers to integrate technological in their teaching. As Mishra and Koelher found, there are three keys of knowledge, they are:

-Technology: the knowledge about various technologies which are applied in class.

-Pedagogy: the knowledge of teachers in practices, methods and strategies.

-Content: the knowledge of teachers about the subject which they have to teach.

The most important is the relation between these components:

-Technology and Pedagogy Knowledge (TPK): teaching and learning can change depend of the use of technologies.

-Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (PCK): the knowledge in a pedagogical way which is use to teach a specific content.

-Technology and Content Knowledge (TCK): understanding on how technology and content are relationated.

As an instance of all this and in relation with our subjects; in the technological part we can find Investigation and ICT and Scholar organization and educational resources. Similarly, Planification of educational action, Developmental and educational psychology, Sociology of education, Scholar organization and educational resources and Diversity of student body and tutorial action are into pedagogical part. And finally, English, Language and literature and Theories and institutions of education belong to content part.

In this way, we can observe that the most number of subjects are into pedagogical part and, conversely, technological part has got the lower number of subjects.

By: MARÍA DOLORES MUÑOZ LÓPEZ y ROSANA SÁNCHEZ ROBLES.