Instructional Planning Activity Types as Vehicles for Curriculum-Based TPACK Development

Teachers' knowledge is situated, event-structured, and episodic. Technology, pedagogy and content knowledge (TPACK) - one form of highly practical professional educational knowledge - is comprised of teachers' concurrent and interdependent curriculum content, general pedagogy, and technological understanding. Teachers' planning - which expresses teachers' knowledge-in-action in pragmatic ways -- is situated, contextually sensitive, routinized, and activity-based. To assist with the development of teachers' TPACK, therefore, we suggest using what is understood from research about teachers' knowledge and instructional planning to form an approach to curriculum-based technology integration that is predicated upon the combining of technologically supported learning activity types within and across content-keyed activity type taxonomies. In this chapter, we describe such a TPACK development method.

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