This last several days I have been at the ASCD Summer Conference at The Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. It has been a very good conference over-all. On the Saturday of the conference I went to a presentation on something called TPACK which is a new way to understand, plan for, and assess curriculum-based technology instruction. Basically it helps give the teachers a way to find appropriate technology tools to support what they are teaching after they plan what to teach. There are two basic questions that teachers are encouraged to ask before they choose the technology they will use with the lesson. The first questions is, what are you wanting to teach? The second question is, what are the curriculum goals? Figure this out first and then find the materials, the technology, that will most clearly help with the teaching of the lesson(s). This material was developed at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia by Judi Harris and Mark Hofer. Go to http://actvitytypes.wm.edu/ and find all of the activity type charts for the different areas of the curriculum that will help you start making smarter technological pedagogical decisions. They can also be found at #how2tpack. Check it out. And oh, BYOD teachers, this is what we will be using this year to help plan out even better BYOD lessons.
Hope your summer is going great! TJJ
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