The TPCK Model gives teachers a framework for relating technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge in a classroom setting. Technological knowledge refers to using appropriate and useful technology in the classroom; pedagogical knowledge refers to strategies of instruction and teacher style; content knowledge refers to the subject matter that is being taught. The TPCK Model is very important for teachers to use because it shows how interconnected the three concepts are. Teachers need to have effective teaching strategies, they need to know the content that they are teaching, and they need to provide appropriate technology that adds to the teaching instead of distracting.
Our unit plan was difficult to design because Christy and I have very different technologies available. We wanted to put in technology that was available, appropriate and was not just thrown in to fulfill the assignment requirements. We made our unit to be usable in the classroom in the fall. The unit plan was successful in conveying the content in a way that was tailored to our students. We could definitely work on incorporating a variety of supporting technologies, to introduce our students to the multitude of media products that are available. We did not want our unit plan to focus solely on the technology because that does not support the TPCK model; all three domains need to be in balance for effective teaching.
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