Wednesday, March 9, 2016

For the cooking with TPACK challenge I was asked to have someone pick a plate a bowl and a utensil of some sort. After this I was asked to cut vegetables in order to prepare a vegetable tray. As you can see in the video above I was fortunate to get a knife for this task. My good fortune, however, seemed to stop here.. The knife I was provided with was a plastic knife which was ineffective in cutting the vegetables I was seeking to prepare.This task demonstrated the TPACK model well as we were asked to complete a goal using three objects. In my example I had to pretty good objects. The plate was effective for me to both cut the vegetables on as well as serve them. The bowl allowed for a place to store the vegetables after they had been cut. However because my knife is dull and very ineffective I was forced to put my hands all over the food. The vegetables I was seeking to prepare were smashed instead of cut ruining the appearance and texture of the vegetables. So how does this tie into TPACK? I believe it showed that even if a professor is proficient in two of the three essential components of technological learning their lessons and still come out miserable and learning goals will not be accomplished. If a professor is not competent in content pedagogy and technological implementation the lesson will fail. Professors must seek to be proficient in all three or they will end up with smooshed distextured vegetables.

1 comment:

  1. You're right... sometimes a lack of knowledge about a particular tool (or content or pedagogy) can lead to a disastrous effect. One important point demonstrated by your lesson is that effective instructors can repurpose tools to accomplish tasks they may not have been originally designed for, as long as we focus on the task rather than the tool.

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