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This is a summary of a paper that I read. The title of the paper is Deep-Play: Developing TPACK for 21st Century Teachers which was written by Matthew J. Koehler, Punya Mishra, Emily C. Bouck, Michael DeSchryver, Kristen Kereluik, Tae Seob Shin, and Leigh Graves Wolf. The paper has been published in International Journal Learning Technology Vol. 6 No. 2 in 2011.  Introduction Teachers face some difficulties in integrating technology into their classroom because of new technologies, like Smart Boards, YouTube, Google Earth, iPads, Flickr, and GPS devices, bombard teachers from all directions. In this paper, they explored specialized kinds of knowledge that teachers need to re-design technology, approaches that use the knowledge to foster the teachers' skills to create, design and play with technology and ideas. They also introduced learning technology by design (LT/D) as an approach to fostering TPACK knowledge and to re-design the educational technology in the classroom. The...

The paper entitled Stalled Innovation: Examining the technological, pedagogical and content knowledge of Australian university educators was written by Karin Barac, Sarah Prestridge, and Katherine Main who had an affiliation with Griffith University, Australia. The paper was published in Australian Educational Computing in 2017 Vol 32(1). Introduction Some people argued that there is still little evidence to support claims for widespread renewal of this magnitude in the daily business of higher education (Oliver, 2012; Price&Kirkwood, 2014; Russell, Malfroy, Gosper&McKenzie, 2014; Selwyn, 2014). These studies suggest that the introduction of technologies alone will do little to transform education if it is not linked to pedagogies. The purpose of the study was to explore the nexus between pedagogy and technology in higher education, especially how technology is being used in specific relationship to the content and whether pedagogy is being shaped by the technology. The p...

This time, I am going to summarize a paper related to TPACK which was written by Mark W. Olofson, Meredith J. C. Swallow, and Maureen D. Neumann. Their paper entitled TPACKing: a constructivist framing of TPACK to analyze teachers' construction of knowledge. The paper was published in computers and education journal 95 (2016) 188-201.  As we know that TPACK framework is a conceptual tool in studies by integrating technology into the classroom, such as in the current issues is the influences on teachers' in the 20th century. Technology also makes people access information and do global communication (Dede, 2010). People started to adopt technology in education but it required a contemporary approach to understand the teachers' practice (Enyedy, 2014). The writers interpreted TPACKing as an ongoing process of teacher development and practice while implementing technology, pedagogy, and content to guide the interpretation of TPACKing process. There was some previous resea...

This is a summary of a paper entitled "University Level Learning and Teaching via E-Learning Platforms" written by D. Benta, G. Bologa, S. Dzitac, and I. Dzitac which in the time of writing had collaboration with Agora University of Oradea, Departement of Social Sciences, Romania. The paper was published in Procedia Computer Science Journal (Elsevier) under information technology and quantitative management (ITQM 2015). The journal is an open access under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). The paper related to some previous research, such as the comparison between e-learning and traditional learning on the acquisition and retention of knowledge (Kelly et al), three considered dimensions to have benefits of e-learning on learning (Vavpotic et al.) and Chai et al. work in reviewing some papers related to TPACK which resulted that it has positive results in enhancing teachers' capacity to integrate ICT for instructional practice. ...

Hi everyone, hope you all are doing well. This time, I am going to write a summary from a paper entitled a review of technological pedagogical content knowledge written by Ching Sing Chai, Joyce Hwee Ling Koh and Chin-Chung Tsai who have an affiliation with Nanyang Technological University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The paper was submitted for Educational Technology and Society in 2013. They started with identifying the literature in May 2011 by exploring the web of science database and used TPACK or TPCK and technological pedagogical content knowledge as the keywords.  As a result, they found 40 articles. Next, they did further searching by using education research complete and ERIC and found 75 journals articles. After eliminating duplicates, there were 74 articles were read, analyzed and coded using a spreadsheet program. The researchers adapted systematic approach to code the data and categorized the articles into four categories as follow bas...

Hello everyone, This time, I read a paper entitled Integrating ICT into Teacher Education Programs from a TPACK Perspective: Exploring Perceptions of University Lecturers written by Vicente Chua Reyes Jr., Christine Reading, Helen Doyle and Sue Gregory. Three of the writers has an affiliation with University of New England and one of the writers has an affiliation with University of Queensland. The paper was submitted for Computers and Education: An International Journal (Elsevier) in 2017 and can be assessed in  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.07.009 .  The paper was an exploratory research of how lecturers in Australian university perceive the impact of TPACK in their teaching practice. The research reported in the research was conducted in 2010 and 2011. There were about 20% university students enrolled on-campus study and 80% off-campus. To be detailed, there were about 14.84% and 13.74% students who enrolled off-campus in 2010 and 2011 respectively....

Hello everyone, Here with me again, Sri, and I am going to summarize a paper entitled The Influence of gender on Beginning Teachers' Perceptions on Their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) which is written by Kathy Jordan, RMIT Australia.  As we know that there are many papers about TPACK and most of those papers are influenced by Mishra and Koehler (2006). More information about TPACK-related paper can be found at this link http://tpack.org/. The researcher found the gap between gender and ICT mastery and the researcher wants to address the gap in the literature by focusing on the influence of gender in survey findings from two cohorts of beginning teachers. Abbitt's (2011) review the TPACK instrument of pre-service teacher education through two parallel approaches and those are performance-based measure (artifacts produced by pre-service teachers) and involve the use of self-reporting measures. The initial design was for pre-service teachers majorin...

Hi everyone, Still about TPACK, and this time I will make a summary from a paper entitle Indonesian EFL teachers’ application of TPACK in in-service education teaching practices written by Bambang Yudi CAhyono, Oktafina Dewi Kurnianti, and Ira Mutiaraningrum who have an affiliation with Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia. Their paper was published by European Centre for Research Training and Development UK Vol. 4 No. 5 page 16-30 on May 2016. There is much research in Mathematics, social, science, and language relate to TPACK. Wu and Wang (2015) conducted a research about in-service EFL elementary teachers in Taiwan, Baser et al (2015) developed a TPACK instrument for pre-service EFL teachers and Tseng (2014) developed an instrument for assessing EFL teachers’ TPACK as perceived by EFL students. There other examples of TPACK research in Indonesia was conducted by Mahdun (2015) and Cahyono (2010). Mahdun research about the use of TPACK for senior high school students in Pekanbaru...

This paper entitled Exploring teachers’ use of TPACK in design talk: The collaborative design of technology-rich early literacy activities written by Ferry Boschman (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands), Susan Mckenney (University of Twente), and Joke Voogt (University of Amsterdam). This paper is published in Elsevier journal under computers and education category. Published in December 2014. This research studied how one group of teachers create technology-rich lesson modules, within designing content and activities for early learning environment what so called as PictoPal. PictoPal contains on-computer and off-computer activities, such as online and offline Clicker. Lanksheaar and Knobel (2003) showed that technology mainly applied in these sectors, coding/decoding and vocabulary. They mentioned that the use of technology for a productive purpose is severely lacking. The research finds out about the nature of design talk when it is a collaboration between rich-...

Hi everyone, Hope today runs as you expected. Still with TPACK, this time I am going to write a summary from a paper entitled development of the TF TPACK survey instrument written by Romina Jamieson-Proctor (University of Southern Queensland), Peter Albion (university of Southern Queensland), Glenn Finger (Griffith University), Rob Cavanagh (Curtin University), Robert Fitzgerald (university of Canberra), Trevor Bond (James Cook University), and Peter Grimbeek (Griffith University). The paper was submitted for Australian Educational Computing journal volume 27 number 3, 2013. The project (teaching teachers for the future = TTF) is funded by Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) through ICT Innovation fund. The paper summarizes the development and psychometric properties of TPACK survey instruments that was developed to use in TTF project. As we know that TPACK helps teachers and educators to bridge the gap between research and cur...

Hi everyone, Still about summarizing paper that relates to TPACK, this time I am going to an interesting paper written by Yi-Feh Yeh (from Science Education Center, National Taiwan Normal University), Ying-Shao Hsu, Hsin-Kai Wu and Sung-Pei Chen (Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Taiwan Normal University). This paper entitled exploring the structure of TPACK with vide-embedded and discipline-focused assessment was published in Elsevier journal under category computers and education (Elsevier.com/locate/compedu). This paper started available online on October 18, 2016. This paper is about how science teachers in Taiwan implementing TPACK in their teaching process. As we know that TPACK is using technology as a tool to assist teachers’ instruction and help students in the learning process. Science is one of the subjects that gets benefits from TPACK because delivering the material is easier when it is using technology for visualization. When there is a disciplinary d...

Hi everyone, Hope that each of you is having good Sunday and wonderful Easter. This time, I am going to write a summary of a paper written by Barbara Martin from Illinois State University, USA. That paper is published in International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE) Vol. 4, No. 1 March 2015. This paper is divided into some sections and those are an introduction, a definition of TPACK, student confidence, leadership and modeling of technology integration, assessment or evaluation of technology integration, integrated technology in teacher preparation, conclusion and references. In that paper, the writer writes about the understanding of teacher in using TPACk as a pedagogical tool during the preparation program. Firstly, this paper discusses the technology which is used by the students, what recently called as digital natives (Presnky, 2001). Although we are the digital native, pre-service teachers mostly use technology mainly focussed on social communica...

Hi everyone, As we know that to enhance the students in the learning process, we as a teacher can use technology to help the students in learning. This time I will make a summary of a paper written by Varongsri Saengbanchong, Ph.D., Prof. Nongklak Wiratchai, and Assoc. Prof. Suchada Bowarnkitiwong. They published a paper entitled validating the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge appropriate for instructing Students (TPACK-S) of pre-service teachers. All of them at the time of writing has an affiliation with Faculty of education at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. This paper was submitted in 5 th World conference on educational sciences-WCES 2013 on category social and behavioral sciences in Elsevier journal. They use some theories in their research and one of them is TPACK by Mishra and Kehler, 2006. It is said that there are seven cognitive tools from knowledge and can be elaborated to develop it so it can create an effective classroom in the 21 st ce...

Hi guys... This time I am going to write my experience in joining second iTELL conference 2018 on the second day. There were presenters on the second day, similar to the first day but there were two plenary speakers on the second day and those are from UNS and British Council.  The first plenary speaker was Ms. Drajati and she is a lecturer at UNS. She presented about TPACK in the concept and practice in the classroom. Maybe some of you are new to this term, so am I. So, TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. Her presentation is quite interesting and since this is a millennial era whereas many youths are using technologies in their life.  As we know that the number of people who use mobile keeps increasing from time to time. It was about 0.08 percent of the population that connected to the internet in 2003, then it increased to 1.84 in 2010, 3.47 percent in 2015 and it is predicted that there will be about 6.58 percent people in the world conn...