Pravaha: ideas, information and education flow

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...

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...