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in discussions of learning technologies, you may have heard the acronym

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TPCK

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or TPACK

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TPACK stands for

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technological pedagogical

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and content knowledge

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so to understand what this is we first need to draw a few circles

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let's start with

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a green circle and call this technology

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technology represents technical
knowledge so the ability to use software

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the ability to use a computer and so
forth

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there other domains of knowledge as well

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like for instance

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content knowledge

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we'll put a C for content knowledge this
includes

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if you're a high school language arts
teacher, language arts, it includes science

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social studies and so forth so what you
as a teacher trying to convey to your

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students

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and also working off Shulman's idea

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here's an idea of

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pedagogical knowledge as well

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so this is how to teach

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so for instance though you may be an
expert in quantum physics you may not

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know how to teach quantum physics

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or if you're an expert in Shakespeare you
may not know how to teach Shakespeare

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similarly

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there is a subdomain of knowledge called
PCK

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which is where pedagogical knowledge of
the subject and content knowledge meet

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to allow you to effectively teach that
specific content knowledge

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similarly

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the authors of TPACK

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propose that there are other subdomains
as well like for instance

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technological content knowledge area

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in which you know the technology and how
it relates to your content knowledge so

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again if you teach social studies you
know how to use technology to support

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research in that field

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or study that field

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similarly

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there's technological pedagogical
knowledge

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in which you know how to use technology
to support teaching

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now the whole idea of TPACK is to get at
something we failed at getting at

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learning technologies for many years

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that's the central idea here

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this is how

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all three of these technology pedagogy
and content knowledge work together

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in very complicated way to support good teaching

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now

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TPACK has been under some attack

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because it does propose to be an
entire package or the full view

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of technological integration and part of
the response that the TPACk authors have

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come up with

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for defending TPACK

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has been to put a dotted

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circle around everything

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that they say is context

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so

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if you're in an elementary school for instance

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the way TPACK looks will be very different than if you're in higher education

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if you were in the corporate sector this
would be very different as well

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so ultimately though TPACK tries to get at
at understanding how these three domains

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of knowledge interact with one another
in creating sub domains that are

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essential to understand

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to support

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effective technological
integration