TPACK was conceptualized by Dr. Joan Hughes in 1998 (then called TPCK) and further built upon by Lee Shulman. The TPACK framework provides a very different way of thinking about education technology.
TPACK is a technology integration framework that identifies three types of knowledge instructors need to combine for successful technology integration—technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge.
Rather than thinking of technology use along a hierarchy, TPACK places technology knowledge inside a larger framework of knowledge bases that teachers need to be effective in the classroom.
The TPACK framework asserts that teaching with technology is difficult to do well and requires a complex set of skills. To be effective, teachers must master:
In the TPACK framework, these three domains all work together, and teachers should aspire to the center of the circle. Find out more about the TPACK framework at http://tpack.org/.