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Punya Mishra explains TPACK as an overlap of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. He explains further, technology changes: how we teach (Pedagogy), what we teach (Content), and the contexts within which teaching/ learning happens. This advances my knowledge on what we as teachers need to know when preparing our students for the 21st century. The learning pit reminds me of Dervin's sense-making metaphor except in the pit students are reassured that being in the pit makes for deeper learning and working through the problem with others makes for a successful learning experience. Therefore, if you avoid the pit you are not challenging yourself and are not making intellectual growth. Dervin's sense-making triangle emphasis has been placed on understanding how the individual saw self as stopped, what questions or confusions they defined, what strategies they preferred for arriving at answers, what success they had in arriving at answers, how they were helped by answers, and what barriers they saw standing in the way to arriving at answers. Technology in both of these scenarios if used in the way TPACK presents it will help the learner climb out of the pit or could help the learner bridge the gap. Students have the world at their fingertips when they have technology available to them throughout their day and are supported by teachers who facilitate learning through pedagogy.
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Diana Olguin
4/16/2018 10:59:01 pm
At this moment in time, I feel as though I am in the problem solving stage of the pit trying to find a solution on how to create my prototype. Like the students, I am reassured by the instructors and our Cohort that we will get through this learning experience.
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