Using TPACK with Instructional Activities
Using TPACK with Instructional Activities
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TPACK answer the question to "WHY" we use technology in the classroom. Understating the interplay among the the three areas of TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge) allows teachers to plan, create and develop effective lessons. The venn diagram helps teachers teachers decide what tech tool they should use to support the content and the instructional activity in their classroom.
Making a Prediction, Hypothesis
Not sure what classroom activity you want to use and want to learn about various apps to use in the classroom....go to the Tech Tools and Tip Page.
Here you will find a variety of instructional activities you can do in your classroom. Each of these tech tools is hyperlinked to take you directly to the site and/or Google Extension.
Activate Prior Knowledge
Activate Prior Knowledge
Students think about what they already know about the topic and make connections to learn new information. By activating or generating prior knowledge and experience, students are able to front load meaning and forge connections that help in terms of motivation, focus, and comprehension.
Analyze Artifacts
Analyze Artifacts
Students explore a topic using physical or virtual artifacts, including data, text, images, etc.
Google Classroom/Slides/Docs
Analyze Data
Analyze Data
Using student-generated data or print-based and digital data available online, students pursue original lines of inquiry and compare and contrast data collected against criteria and/or previous analyses.
Annotate
Annotate
Students make annotations in their own and others’ work based on observations and reflections related to relevant course concepts.
Ask questions
Ask questions
Students develop questions related to course materials and concepts.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm
Students generate and collect data by performing and administering surveys, tests, experiments, etc.
Google Forms
Categorize /Classify
Categorize /Classify
The student attempts to examine a concept or relationship in order to categorize it into a set of known categories or classify it according to course content.
Cloze Technique
Cloze Technique
Students insert words that have been omitted as they read to complete and construct meaning from text.
Collect/ Curate
Collect/ Curate
Students upload, collect, bookmark, and organize resources, artifacts, materials, works, and research.
Comic Creators
Comic Creators
Students create comics and memes to show understanding of the topic
Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast
Students identify how things are alike and different in order to understand multiple characteristics, evidence, and/or perspectives on a topic.
Complete Graphic Organizers
Complete Graphic Organizers
Students use teacher- or self-created visual and graphic organizers to illustrate relationships among facts, terms, or ideas.
Concept Mapping
Concept Mapping
Students develop a visual aid or diagram that illustrates the relationships among concepts.
Google Classroom/Slides/ Docs
Google Slides
Conduct an Interview
Conduct an Interview
Face to face, via audio/video conference, or via email, students question someone on a chosen topic. This may be digitally recorded and shared through presentations and group work.
Youtube
Create a Game
Create a Game
Students combine rules, strategies, and knowledge to develop a game, in paper or digital form, to help other students learn content.
Create a Map
Create a Map
Students label existing maps or produce their own; print-based materials or digitally
Create a Newspaper/ Magazine/Brochure/ Newsletter
Create a Newspaper/ Magazine/Brochure/ Newsletter
Students synthesize information from textbooks, encyclopedias, and/or websites in the form of a print-based or electronic periodical.
Create a Portfolio
Create a Portfolio
Students create and document ideas, works of art, documents, and other artifacts in a portfolio format.
Creating a List
Creating a List
Students list as many topics, ideas, theories, or anything else in order to interact with information.
Creating a Project
Creating a Project
Students create a project (e.g., play script, report, book trailer, cartoon, comic) or artifact (e.g., 3D model, diorama) as a culminating activity that illustrates or applies what they have learned.
Google Slides, Docs
Powtoons
Windows Movie Maker
Critique
Critique
Students explain and articulate ideas verbally and critically while responding to products from a variety of social, historical, and contextual perspectives.
Demonstrate
Demonstrate
Student create a demonstration on some topic to show their understanding of an idea or process.
Google Slides
Windows Live Movie Maker
Wixie
Describe
Describe
Students produce an explanation of an object or concept.
Podcasts
Windows Movie Maker
Draw a Picture
Draw a Picture
Students create a physical or virtual drawing or caricature using a paper and pencil or digital format.
Effective, Active Listening
Effective, Active Listening
Students gain information from teachers, guest speakers, and peers; moving images/objects (video, animations); synchronous/asynchronous; in-person or multimedia.
Windows Live Movie Maker
Google Slides
Formal Writing
Formal Writing
Students use written forms to develop and express their own understanding of a given topic.
Identify Cause and Effect
Identify Cause and Effect
Students identify how an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event.
Google Docs
Interpret Maps, Charts and Tables
Interpret Maps, Charts and Tables
Students extract and/or synthesize information from maps, carts, and/or tables.
Investigate a Concept
Investigate a Concept
Students explore or investigate a concept through the use of research-related resources.
Label
Label
Students use labels to define, categorize, or classify concepts; usually in a graphic or chart.
Paint
Making a Prediction, Hypothesis
Making a Prediction, Hypothesis
Students make predictions about a text that will be read as a means of drawing upon existing knowledge and generating new connections with a text. Students make predictions about texts.
Observations
Observations
Students observe/examine static or animated, print, or digital media from teachers, guests and peers; synchronous and asynchronous
Presenting
Presenting
Students combine textual and visual elements to share their understanding for peers/others; oral or multimedia format, synchronous or asynchronous.
Google Slides/Sites
Youtube
Windows Movie Maker
Quiz/ Test
Quiz/ Test
Students demonstrate their knowledge within the context of a testing environment, such as responding to questions on a test or quiz.
Google Forms
Recording, Creating a Log
Recording, Creating a Log
Students record a log of activities, observations, perceptions, reflections on feelings; both in school and outside of school.
Google Apps
YouTube Video
Student Responses
Student Responses
Students respond to teacher, peer, written, or digitally posed questions.
Think-Pair-Share
Think-Pair-Share
Students talk about the content they are reading by thinking about a question or prompt, pairing up with another student to discuss, and sharing their thinking with the rest of the class.
Using Imagery
Using Imagery
Students generate images and visual imagery while reading or listening to content in order to recall information.
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips
Students travel to physical or virtual sites; synchronous/asynchronous
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Students use new and old vocabulary to compose a glossary of terms.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Students are introduced to and learn unfamiliar keywords before they read.
Google Slides
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