TPACK lesson plan

Lesson Plan for TPACK integration

Application
Describe an instructional activity (e.g. part of a lesson plan) where you can incorporate this technology. Consider an activity that can be conducted in 10-15 minutes.

First, provide some details regarding:

• Learners: My learners will be 1^st graders.

• Learning outcomes: Students will be able to identify and label nouns.
  
  
• Assessment: I will provide the students will a short quiz through socrative, for me to assess their learning and see if I need to reteach anything.

Second, break down your activity into a timeline of planned events and procedures. Here you should describe what students and the teacher will be doing chronologically during the activity. Below is one of the good examples from previous reflections:

• We will begin the lesson with watching the noun video on brainpop jr.
• Then I will have the students tell me what they learned from the video and tell me some nouns that they see around the room
• I will write different words on the board and have the students identify if they are nouns or not.
• I will then have them draw a noun that they see on a blank sheet of paper for me to see that they can identify them on their own
• I will give a small quiz on socrative to check that students understanding.

Reflection
Considering your learning activity described above, write two paragraphs or three for each section below addressing the questions. It may be helpful to keep in mind the followings when reflecting:

1. How well the use of this technology may support your teaching strategies in this activity.

The use of this technology definitely supported the teaching activity.  I felt it was very useful and gave a different way for students to obtain information.

2. How effectively the use of this technology may enhance students' understanding of and learning from your particular content in this activity.
   
   I feel like this technology can enhance the students learning by giving them a fun way to learn.  I also feel like younger students will pay attention to videos like this and learn from them because they like to watch things and have the different methods of learning.

--Pedagogical-Content:

Your pedagogical content knowledge refers to your understanding of teaching strategies that are specific to a content area. That is the knowledge about choosing appropriate pedagogies for teaching a particular content Example: Using drill-and-practice to teach math problem solving. This strategy however may not necessarily be effective for other content areas.

Now, forget about the technology for a while…..Just tells us about your teaching strategies that you employ in your activity (e.g., analogies, demonstrations, illustrations, examples, explanations, group work, drill-practice, simulations, role-play, lecturing, self-guided learning, inquiry-based learning, problem based learning or etc). Specifically:

• What are your strategies and why do you think your strategies are appropriate to teaching this specific content?  What makes you believe it would help your students comprehend this particular content? Give specific examples from your described activity.
  
  I think if I was teaching a full lesson on this I would show my students the video first and then I would check their comprehension of the lesson by going back over it verbally and ask them questions about what they learned. I think that students of the younger generations like to use technology and watch videos on the computers, I think they would really enjoy this technology and process it more.
  
  
• What would be some conceptions and pre-conceptions that students of different ages and backgrounds bring with them when learning this particular content? What would you be concerned about students' prior knowledge, experiences, motivation? Again focus on the content and your teaching strategy, not the technology!
  
  Depending on the age of the students you are teaching, I am aiming for the younger grades, and like first graders would likely not know much about nouns.  I would not be concerned about prior knowledge because most of the time their knowledge they already know is correct.

--Technological-Pedagogical:

Your technological pedagogical knowledge refers to your understanding of technologies for particular learning tasks, your ability to choose technologies based on its fitness, your knowledge of pedagogical strategies, and your ability to apply those strategies for use of technologies Example: Selecting Edmodo/facebook for facilitating student generated debate. Edmodo here is the technology that supports the main pedagogy-group discussion/debate.

In the previous section, you talked about your instructional strategies. Keeping these strategies you stated in mind, now tell us how the technology is used in your activity.  Specifically:

• What main instructional strategies would this technology use serve in your activity? How would using the technology support the way you teach this activity? Please give examples and be specific to your described activity. Think about your main teaching strategies that this technology would support.
  
  This would help reinforce the strategies in the lesson.  This technology would give me another way to teach the lesson and another method of learning for the students. 
  
  
• What different classroom management strategies you might need to consider when using this technology in the activity? Give examples and be specific to your described activity.
  
  I would need to consider the method of delivering the video to the students. Whether it be them watching the video on the smart board together or on their own iPad. And manage their behavior and monitor their watching of the video.

--Technological Pedagogical Content:

Your technological pedagogical content knowledge refers to your understanding of how teaching and learning from content may change when technology used and is our knowledge about selecting technologies that suits, support, and enhances teaching strategies and learning activities in your particular content area. It is your understanding of teaching strategies to effectively teach the particular content and help student conceptual difficulties in this content by meaningfully incorporating technologies. Example: Using a flash card app on iPad as a means to aid students memorize words and definitions in language learning. iPad app is here chosen as a tool to support the pedagogy around instant feedback, quick repetition, and individualized learning. These are some of the strategies used in language learning content area.

Now, let’s focus on the content you’re teaching in your activity. Think about your decisions to incorporate this technology and the teaching strategies in relation to your particular content area. Tell us specifically about:

• How would using this technology enhance the way the content is represented in your activity (e.g. demonstrations, explanations, examples, illustrations, analogies, and etc.)? That is why you think the selection and the pedagogical use of this technology may enhance what you teach (the content in your activity). Give specific examples from your activity to support your answer and keep in mind the learning objectives that you stated previously. 
  
  This technology would enhance the content by giving a different way for the students to learn the lesson, it is important to have different methods for the students to learn.
  
  
• In what different ways students practice or understand the content in your activity that would otherwise not be possible without the use of the technology? In addition to motivational benefits, what else can students do with this technology as they are learning the content?
  
  Without this technology the students would only get to learn about it from my perspective, and not have a different method that delivered the information differently. The students can also play different games on this site, to reinforce the information they have obtained.

3D Sites

Thinkiverse:

I really enjoyed the Thinkiverse education site, I feel it had a bunch of useful things to use as a teacher. I loved that we as teachers are able to use this technology and print things that can be helpful within the classroom that might typically cost bunches of money to pay for and you get the chance to print it for free if you have that technology available to you through the school. I feel like this is a very useful resource for teachers, or anyone really that needs extra tools to help teach.

Smithsonian:

This article was neat to me because I thought it could be very cool for teachers to use the 3D printing in classrooms that you would not think could conventionally need to use it. A history class would be cool to have this technology in because they could print artifacts from history to show a better example of what it is they are talking about.  Sometimes pictures just do not do justice or its hard to visualize what it is you are actually looking at, so being able to print something that you may find in a museum that you may not be able to get your students to because of distance or financial reasons.  It would be so cool to just have this available to you, and really as teachers we would only have to print it one time and we would have it for the rest of forever, and always have something the students can get their hands on and manipulate to see what history might have really been like.


3D printing in schools:

This article was good research in that it showed that while 3D printing in schools was motivating to the students and it engaged to want to learn, it also had some problems in the beginning.  This technology while useful and the teachers were excited to use this they also had a learning curve and much of the first little bit with the printers were trial and error and they had to learn what they were doing.  I feel like if we are going to implement this technology into our schools we have to provide plenty of training for all of the teachers and we have to have people there to help with malfunctions and understand the technology completely.  This article highlighted what we need to do before we implement this technology.  There are many things to think about when bringing in this technology.

TPCK Article:

While reading this article, I wished I would have printed it out, it blinded my eyes. However, I do feel that this article was very important to read as a future teacher.  I think it is important to integrate technology into our teaching because technology is not going away, its only getting more advanced.

I think that, as teachers today get over whelmed with technology it is easy to get lost in the technology and easily forget about it or just solely rely on technology to teach our students.

This methodology is important to know and learn how to implement within the classroom because it helps to teach and then bring the technology in as a support to our students.

Net generation as a preservice teacher: transferring familiarity with the new technologies to educational environments:

This article talked about the importance of bringing new technological techniques to students within the education programs. It has been found that students in todays programs find it just as difficult to go from informal social networking sites to formal sites for communication and teaching.

However, the educators teaching the preservice teachers find it easy to overlook the technology parts of teaching because the preservice teachers are always using technology.

I found this article very interesting, because I find it a little difficult to go from informal, to formal settings in the technology world. I also can see where it is hard for educators to teach it because they forget that we are always mostly in the informal setting.  I thought this article was very interesting and an important reminder of the importance of technology within education.

Article Reviews 1/3/17

Home of the Future:

This article was a little odd to me, I personally am not fond of the idea that we need robots to assist us in daily tasks.  I believe that if we have robots assisting us in our daily lives it helps make us lazier and become less likely to teach our children how to clean properly.  We cannot expect everything to be done for us, while some things in this article sound lovely, and I would be okay with not having to vacuum, how much dirt can that little thing actually hold?  I would rather do it myself not have to worry about the thing getting stuck somewhere or the dog attacking it.


Best Inventions 2015:

Some of these inventions seem to be pretty off the wall to me, like clothing that is laced with technology?  It could be really handy to have, and I mean a shirt that translates conversations seems like a really cool idea, but are they able to have all of the millions of languages in the world? and how do you wash that is my question.  Also an underground park.. why?  If you want to go hang out in the sun and spend time in the park why not just go to a real park that is outside under the direct sunlight? I really am not understanding the point of this whole thing, I would rather go outside and hear the birds than go underground. Shoes you can tie with one hand? are we really that lazy that we cant spend the minute it takes us to actually tie shoes with real laces, technology seems to be becoming outlandish to me. I am a big fan of the invention of the baby monitor that tracks their temps, and heart rates and stuff, I think that is a really cool and helpful to have. I would love to have one of those for my babies. I feel like a lot of the inventions from 2015 were a little crazy, and just give way to us being more lazy.  I personally think most of them are ridiculous.

Best Inventions 2016:

The first invention from this year is annoying to me, how will you actually benefit from the virtual reality headset?  You can't walk around with it and you can't use it for much, I would rather be in the real world.  I do however find the solar panels that do not stick out to be a great invention, it helps the environment and it doesn't make your house look absolutely ridiculous. The dishes that work around cognitive decline are extremely interesting to me, I love them because I have experienced the hardship of having someone I love start to cognitively decline and these would have been amazing, and helpful. Overall most of these inventions do not seem as wild as the year before, however some of them are lazy to an extreme, no tie shoes this year? really? that to me is just lazy. However some of them like that barbies that look like real girls is a great invention that helps to give girls something to look at that isn't ridiculous and impossible to achieve.


Miracle Maker:

Okay so, Printing live organs is pretty freaking awesome.. I mean, if we can learn to do this and make it accsesssible to everyone this could save millions of lives.  I would love to see this product and technology advance this is what we should be putting our brains and technology usage to instead of shoes that tie themselves.  This is an amazing advancement in technology.