Lesson
Plan for TPACK integration
Application
Describe an instructional activity (e.g. part of a lesson plan) where you can incorporate this technology. Consider an activity that can be conducted in 15-20 minutes.
First, provide some details regarding:
- Learners: The learners will be a 3rd grade math students.
- Learning outcomes: At the end of this activity students will know place value.
- Assessment: Students will receive a homework page for today, and be tested on it later on in the week.
Second, break down your activity into a timeline of planned events and procedures. Here you should describe what students and the teacher will be doing chronologically during the activity. Below is one of the good examples from previous reflections:
- As the teacher I will introduce place value by using the foam blocks. We will talk about each group of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands.
- Using pearsontexas.com, we will watch a short video called “Visual Learning”
- We will also go over the question of the day and have a student go to the smart board and answer the question.
- Using the same website we will go over the review for the lesson. Students will find the same page in their workbook and follow along while I ask questions and explain the answers.
- After the lesson is done, the teacher will assign homework for the students
- In the free time remaining the students will get into groups and word on the game that is provided at the end of the lesson on the website.
Reflection
Considering your learning activity described above, write two paragraphs or three for each section below addressing the questions. It may be helpful to keep in mind the followings when reflecting:
1. Technology is a huge support in the
lesson because it offers visual learning that students may understand better
than just hearing how it is done. Technology even offers the use of having a
game at the end which will keep students on task, and willing to answer so that
they will have enough time to play at the end.
2. The use of a smart board in this
lesson will help students with hands on learning. Students will be able to see
and get to write on the smart board to help them and the students around them
learn the lesson. Also, having students go up to the front of the classroom
will help them with their confidence and they will be encourage to want to go
to the front.
--Pedagogical-Content:
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Your pedagogical content knowledge refers to your understanding of
teaching strategies that are specific to a content area. That is the
knowledge about choosing appropriate pedagogies for teaching a particular
content
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Now,
forget about the technology for a while…..Just tells us about your teaching
strategies that you employ in your activity (e.g., analogies, demonstrations,
illustrations, examples, explanations, group work, drill-practice, simulations,
role-play, lecturing, self-guided learning, inquiry-based learning, problem
based learning or etc). Specifically:
- Some things that I will use in my teaching are the foam blocks that students will be able to touch and feel and get to play with. I think this will help students to be able to see what I am trying to teach more efficiently.
- I think the students will already have the background knowledge of ones, tens, and maybe even hundreds place value, but to be sure we will start with the smaller place value and work our way up. The motivation to learn this might be getting to play the game at the end.
--Technological-Pedagogical:
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Your technological pedagogical knowledge refers to your understanding
of technologies for particular learning tasks, your ability to choose
technologies based on its fitness, your knowledge of pedagogical strategies,
and your ability to apply those strategies for use of technologies
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the previous section, you talked about your instructional strategies. Keeping
these strategies you stated in mind, now tell us how the technology is used in
your activity. Specifically:
- Some of the main instructional strategies would be the use of the worksheet and the students following along to what they are being taught and filling it out on their own worksheet.
- A management strategy would be the game at the end of the lesson, if we are on task and all working together we will get to play the game. But if we are distracted and not focused then the game will be taken away. Also getting up and going to the board will keep students wanting to participate.
--Technological
Pedagogical Content:
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Your technological pedagogical content knowledge refers to your
understanding of how teaching and learning from content may change when
technology used and is our knowledge about selecting technologies that suits,
support, and enhances teaching strategies and learning activities in your
particular content area. It is your understanding of teaching strategies to
effectively teach the particular content and help student conceptual
difficulties in this content by meaningfully incorporating technologies.
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Now,
let’s focus on the content you’re teaching in your activity. Think about your
decisions to incorporate this technology and the teaching strategies in
relation to your particular content area. Tell us specifically about:
- I believe the use of demonstrations and explanations on the smart board will help students understand the lesson clearly. When we use the smart board to answer the question of the day the students will get to see firsthand how they are supposed to use the lesson to everyday life.
- We will talk about how students will use this concept in everyday life and how it will be used beyond the classroom.