Reloaded Design of EFL Teachers Materials

In this post we would like to present the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge  (or TPACK for short).  The authors Koheler & Mishra (2009) explain that “ the TPACK framework emphasizes how the connections among teachers’ understanding of content, pedagogy, and technology interact with one another to produce effective teaching”. In other words, TPACK will help teachers to identify knowledge they might need to focus on in order to teach effectively using technology. As it is shown in the picture above, TPACK consists of three main knowledges:  technological ,  pedagogical , and  content . With the aim of using it effectively, teachers need firstly to decide on the content they want to teach; secondly, they have to think how they are going to do it; and finally, they choose the technological tool to do it successfully. These three individual concepts are embraced simultaneously in TPACK to create a deep understanding of how ...