TRANSLATOR

Hello everybody!

I’m Noelia and this week I am the translator of my group. My task consists in choosing the five most important terms that we have been working and we have learnt this week. The terms that I have chosen are technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and TPACK.

Technological knowledge (TK)

The technological knowledge in the context of the school consists in knowing how to use the new technologies for teaching and learning. For example, a teacher who uses the computer for explaining the content to her students or a teacher, and also, a student, who has to use the internet to look for information, notes and so one.

Pedagogical knowledge (PK)

The pedagogical knowledge consists in that the teacher has to know how to teach to the students, he or she has to know the processes and methods which are used to teach and learn in the correct way and how they are applied to students in the classroom. It means, that the teacher has to know how to treat the students for they really learn.

Content knowledge (CK)

It is the knowledge that the teacher has to know about the subject he or she teachs. For example, a maths’ teacher has to know about maths as the same as an English’ teacher has to know speaking and writing in English.

Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)

It is the knowledge that the teacher has to have about the content of the subject he or she teachs and how to teach this content to the students in the way that everybody can learn it.

TPACK

The TPACK means Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and it is the set of the three types of knowledge that I have explained before: technological, content and pedagogical knowledge. It is a way of teaching which includes the technology, the content of the subject and the knowledge of pedagogy that the teacher has.

I think that these are the most important terms which we have learnt this week and I hope you have understood these definitions well.

See you next week!