TPaCK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wGpSaTzW58&index=2&list=PLSpARjmHuQV0J-f-Et1SC6CptRPGCygOE
This approach has a defined set of abilities or knowledge associated in tandem to create a holistic approaching to teaching. However, it falls short in specifying how and when it should be applied, as it does not work evenly or cooperatively across the board in all or many educational settings. So which does it apply for the greatest effect? I do now know, but you can do your own research.
This triune concept plays with the three major areas of Technology, Content, and Pedagogy that interweave to reinforce one another with justification, empowering, and structure that are to boost the teaching capabilities of a classroom. All of this sounds amazing, but is it realistic to say that all three should be connected? That would mean that majority of schools lacking funding and appropriate materials or inadequate materials, in technology, would find this TPACK model to be fundamentally flawed and focused on only PACK without T.
SAMR Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us0w823KY0g&list=PLSpARjmHuQV0J-f-Et1SC6CptRPGCygOE
This focuses primarily on Technology ONLY:
Substitution: Same task, new technology replaces old tech
Augmentation: Same task, Increase in functionality
Modification: Redesign parts of the task
Redefinition: Create new tasks, once unimaginable
//I am not sure how the "once unimaginable" should be taken.//
The SAMR model allows the adaptation of allowing students the capability to create using technology. This opens the potential for students to interact across the world in other languages with translation technology and cooperative working documents. However, this also opens an outlet to an ever fought online and offline cyber bullying aspect, a chance everyone has to take. I think the model shows, even as just a watered down feature, a one sided look of how it is helpful to the educational and technology world to better its claim.
In this post about SAMR, https://eduwells.com/2014/02/04/samr-success-is-not-about-tech/, it argues that it is not about the use of technology but the mindset of the users. SAMR does not replace the asepct of teaching, it is just a means of integrating it within a classroom. This website poses that learning to use technology is not a primary concern. I agree with this statement and side-view of the SAMR model. Have a look yourself.
Technology seems to be advocating for more technological based typing instead of manipulatively writing. In the Scientific America online Journal, A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop, they tell us findings that students taking notes via-laptop are less likely to remember due to writing verbatim what is lectured, while writing involves more cognitive functions (May). In regards to the SAMR, sure it seems mildly unrelated, but if students are prompted to use technology in new and inventive ways, how helpful is the technology if they do not have the kinesthetic foundations as a precursor to typing such as creativity in writing, spelling, and as most article argue critical thinking. (I do not pertain to the critical thinking "concept"... but if you do, there you go!)
//Regardless of what subject you may be involved with, technology can always be temporary or fail leaving a well prepared teacher flailing in discombobulation. In my opinion, if you plan to use technology, then you should be able and ready to teach whatever content or activity in place of technology that fails to uphold a standard, like many things in the educational world.//
This is a simple overview of my opinion, none of this should be taken to heart as word of "blogger" or offensive. Check it out yourself! Let me know what your views may be!
As an advocate for writing, a little info-graph I found along my internet journey:
http://www.pens.com/blog/the-benefits-of-handwriting-vs-typing/#.Wbks1Ny1vcs
May,
C. (2014, June 3). A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop.
Retrieved September 13, 2017, from
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/
