Where Technology Meets Pedagogy: TPACK in Practice

Use TPACK to examine the interaction of content, pedagogy, technology and context when designing technology-rich learning.

• Think in relationships, not three boxes — Understand TPACK as the interaction of content, pedagogy and technology knowledge within context.
• Let content shape the technology — Choose representations and affordances based on what is distinctive about the concept or disciplinary practice.
• Let pedagogy shape the technology role — Consider how technology changes explanation, discussion, practice, feedback, collaboration and learner agency.
• Make context explicit — Account for learners, culture, infrastructure, access, time and institutional conditions in technology decisions.
• Plan from the learning activity — Use TPACK as a planning conversation that connects disciplinary goals, pedagogy, technology affordances and context.