TPack

After watching/listening the assignment for week 1: the video of Punya Mishra’s (2008), he was talking about pedagogy, content and technology, and the living at the junction of educational, creativity, design and technology. This is exactly what I was thinking about when deliver content using technology. We, the educators must be savvy with technology but we need to be creative to use it appropriately to deliver the content and create our class frameworks.

A continuation, there are my notes of Mishra (2008) video/presentation, and where I gain a lot of interesting ideas with his examples. This was a master presentation.

 

 

Accoding by Punya Mishra (2008), “Technology” is a wick (Rittel & Webber, 1972) and every solutions leads to new problems.

• Solutions?

Mishra (2008) indicate that "Standards approaches don’t work".

So, he back to refrain…

             1. Teaching with technology a WICKED problem

             2. Wicked problems require CREATIVITY solutions

             3. Teachers are designers of the Total PACKage

 

TPACK

Mushra’s (2008) talks about “New media ecology”, which is one that is characterized by change.

It is a question of Survival. Where the standards procedures don’t work and creativity is the only solution by tweaking knobs with new ideas.

I like the example of what we can learn from fish that he exposed… he said that when a good time, fish reproduce few fish, but when bad time, fish reproduced a lot of fish because he knows many will be died. So, he brings this example to the education and technology. And also he posted the following in the video slide presentation:

            “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas” – Linus Pauling

According by Mushra, “have a lot of ideas” is the key of the “new media ecology”.

• Then, he question what is creativity?

Creativity is easy to recognize and hard to define.
He ending with the acronym of creativity as must be NEW: Novel, Effective and Whole.

Then he said that it is wrong, and creativity is you have a new idea and you working on it or tweaking several times as a variation of a theme to have something else, then is new.

• Tpack means “Total Package”

What this mean? Mishra (2008) explains in his third point that “Teachers are designers of the Total PACKage”. First, we have the critical context to teach: pedagogy, content and technology.

TPCK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge.

TPACK – is the acronym of Total PACKage

Teachers need to look for “new opportunities to connect with content” (Mushra, 2008)

The PCT (Pedagogy, Content and Technology) is integrate, interdisciplinary and creative.

To closure his exposition, Mishra’s ending with the question: Where do educators live?

 

Educators live right in the center of PCT:

 

This is where EDUCATORS live… right in the middle.

 

 

 

Quality teaching, always understood the essentials tension which lead you to NEW idea, novel, effective and whole.

And, he concludes with … let’s play, our future depends on it; our children’s future depends on it where our children’s lives.

Resource: http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2008/03/18/site-2008-keynote/