TPACK

a. What is the TP knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how does the technology you have chosen support the teaching strategies and methods you have chosen?)

Technology and Pedagogy: My technology (Skype) will allow my instructional strategies to be interactive. Skype will allow for peer partner learning, which is a collaborative experience where students learn from and with each other. Students can help peers learn and at the same time develop and hone their own Spanish skills, as well as their social skills.


b. What is the TC knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how specifically does this technology make the content in your problem more intellectually accessible? Be sure to think about representation.)

Technology and Content:

This technology will help to make my content for accessible, because it will become a real-life challenge for my students. Instead of reading questions out of a textbook, they will be able to engage in authentic communication in a fashion that is already a part of their daily lives. The content will connect more to their daily lives.


c. What is the PC knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how specifically do your pedagogical choices make the content in your problem more intellectually accessible? Be sure to think about how the student will experience the content given these instructional strategies.

Pedagogy and Content:

Students will experience the content in a way that will be engaging. They already chat with their friends, so now they can chat in Spanish. Their goals will still be to gather information about their classmates based on certain criteria. Instead of trying to authentically gain information via an interview that are used to, they can construct written or oral language as they do in English. It will be familiar, but new. It will be challenging, but motivating.