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TPACK Vocabulary
Testing for Understanding of Teaching Knowledge
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Technological Knowledge (TK) | The way that teachers use technology in a specific content area or domain. |
| Content Knowledge (CK) | The understanding that teachers have of their subject area. |
| Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) | The understanding that teachers have of how to effectively instruct. |
| Two-Area Overlap | Most teachers learn to have skills in two knowledge areas at once (overlap). For example: between TK and CK (TCK) between PK and CK (PCK) between PK and TK (PTK) |
| TPACK Framework | Study of the relationships between a teacher's knowledge and skills in technology, pedagogy, and content. |
| Three-Area Overlap | The goal is for teachers to have content knowledge and technological knowledge mastered at once (overlap), or pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge mastered at once (overlap). It looks like: TCK or PCK |
| Four-Area Overlap | TPCK |
| Criticism of TPACK | Technology is hard to balance with pedagogy and content. |
| Criticism of TPACK | It is hard to separately define all three areas of knowledge. They tend to go with each other instead of being different areas. |
| Educational Technology | How to improve learning by appropriately instructing students in the use of technology and/or the effective use of technology to augment a lesson. |
| Differentiated Instruction | The method of teaching to deliberately modify lessons to address all learning styles and needs. |