To Pursue Any Creative Knowledge- TPACK The New Ways of Teaching.

TPACK- Technological, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge are the three main areas for a teacher to become a successful one in today's educational field. In today's way of education we have to become comfortable with incorporating new and improved technology!

Today we are constantly changing our techniques for teaching by adding in new technology and new tools to help aid our lessons and students. Adding new tools into the classroom are good for change and for trying to keep the classroom interesting. Before adding in a new tool you should ask yourself several questions about it: 1) Is this tool going to be easy to use/teach to the kids? 2) Is this a student or teacher based learning tool? 3) Are the techniques for using the tool similar to the ways that you are looking to teach the material? 4) Does this tool seem to have an effective teaching/learning assistance? 5) Can the tool help to assist all levels of students that are in the classroom?  These are just several things that you should consider and ask yourself about a new tool before implementing it into the classroom. All tools can make an impact in a classroom, not necessarily always in a good way, but by asking yourself these questions you can help to navigate the tools and to limit the negative impacts. Most tools now can be modified with certain settings to make them more manageable in a classroom, these is also another consideration to take into account when thinking of adding a new tool. There are so many new tools out there for teachers to use, but as teachers we also need to be smart about how we use these tools and how we can use them to get the most out of them.


Introducing new things into a classroom is always a fun experience for the kids as well as the teachers. When a teacher gets new tools and then shares them with the class there is always a glow of happiness in the teachers face. For teachers it gives hope to make the classroom a new and fun learning environment, by bringing in new tools it gives the teachers a new angle to regain interest from the students. After a while as a teacher you can see the students getting bored of doing the same things over and over again, they lose interest and then they lose focus. By adding new tools into the classroom it gives the students a new opportunity to find the material interesting as well as focusing on it. Though as a teacher, we need to be cautions of when we are adding these new tools that the students don't get to focused on the tool and lose focus on the actual subject. When adding the tool into the classroom you should choose a time that you may have some extra time so that the kids can play around with the tool with out getting overly distracted from what you actually trying to teach that day. You also should give yourself time to make sure that you can research what happens if there is a problem with the tool, this could lead to a big problem if you are not careful. There will always be challenges with adding new things into the classroom, but it is also a great way to keep helping the kids grow. In this article they are talk about how different tools have different impacts on kids in the schools.

In my classroom I am hoping that I will be able to make it enjoyable for all my students. Adding new tools into my classroom I am hoping will always be a fun and growing experience. Like we have discussed in the online chats technology is becoming a big part of the classroom, and now the best teachers follow the TPACK formation. In becoming a teacher today, we are fortunate to be able to learn about this stuff before actually going into the real world without it. For me personally, I would want to try my own way with certain things and then start off by using the tools that I am most comfortable with. When thinking about adding a new tool, I would first ask my fellow teachers what they have used or are using in their classrooms and see how they like using it. I would also go onto other teacher blogs and see if I could find any other suggestions. After finding several suggestions I would then do some research on these particular technological tools, too see if they would be at all helpful with my lesson. I would hope to narrow it down to 2-3 different tools, that I would then actually try to use myself. After self testing I would rank the tools in order of how effective I thought each of them were. I would then ask my fellow teachers to give my number one choice a try, if that passes the test I would use it in my class to help the students to enhance their learning and understanding of the lesson. I would even go to websites that have list of technology that teacher should have in their classrooms to get ideas,.. Click here to take a look at one website I might look at to gain some ideas of what to add.

TPACK is the present and future of teaching. Using these aspects will only help you grow as teacher and in turn will help your kids grow as students.