Individual Growth Plans: Technology

What might a classroom with a highly effective technology integrating teacher look like?

You may have heard of the concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.  This is the knowledge a teacher has of both the content they are teaching and the knowledge of how to teach it.  Click here for a more detailed explanation.  Lee Schulman is credited with the phrase "Pedagogical Content Knowledge".  Schulman's contribution can be visualized as the overlapping of Pedagogical Knowledge and Content Knowledge:

http://www.tpck.org/

Dr. Matthew J. Koehler, at the College of Education at Michigan State University, is working on a model that also incorporates Technological Knowledge.  All together now:  Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge!  (TPACK)

http://www.tpck.org/

Take a look at this video for an explanation of TPACK:

TPACK 101 from Clare Kilbane on Vimeo.