EDT 619 Blog

I found the Dewayan perspective to be very fascinating and as I read the article it made me really question why I do different things in my classroom. According the Deway, there are two types of experiences: ordinary experiences and "an" experience. Ordinary experiences are ones that occur continuously, they are part of the process of living, not composed into an experience and are often stopped because of some type of interruption. In your daily life these are things that occur but don't really affect your daily routine and perhaps are things that you didn't really learn anything from. In your classroom these would be considered assignments which are just done to be done. Students may not find a purpose to these types of assignments, or they may not find the connection between the assignment and an overall learning objective. "An" experiences, on the otherhand, are those that are learned through experience not memorization. These experiences run their c...

TPACK At first I found the definition of the TPACK method to be somewhat overwhelming, but after finding the next image, and unpacking it, I find it to be an excellent method of looking at how you do things in your classroom. Content: Essentially content is just the teacher's knowledge of the subject matter. This should be an obvious thing that teachers have, but it's not just a basic knowledge, it's a deep knowledge of the subject so much so that you know (as the image shows) facts, theories, concepts and procedures. I always think to myself, "do I know more than my students?" and "what questions might they ask that could stump me?" Pedagogy: Pedagogy looks beyond whether the teacher knows the content, but rather do they know how to deliver that content. There are plenty of brilliant people who would struggle in this area because they lack the ability to actually present the material in a way that students will gain the most out of their teachin...