TPACK REFLECTION

This technology assignement is gioing to compliment the pedagogy i use very well. I am a firm believer in getting personal with health, making sure that the students feel that they really can apply everything to them directly because health is probably the only school subject my students will think about everyday for the rest of their life. So this project does that very well. The technology which is mypyramid.gov and word documents and e-mail all really help the students see how to make a healthy diet for themselves. This technology will also help the students figure out there personal weight and health goals and it is going to be a lot easier to implement when it is personal than when it is really general like a normal assignment it in a health class would be.

Content Specific Technology Project

Here is the link to my assignment: http://katieiptspring.pbworks.com/content-specific-teachnology-project
This project is going to be a great resource for my future classroom because it is going to get my students on the computer and working with technology. It is also very content specific in it's nature allowing them to use technology with specific material from our class. The material that they are going to use is also very personal in nature. They get to create a meal plan that is very specific to their own body need based on their age, weight, activity level, and other factors. This project could be used in my classroom during the nutrition unite so that students could costomize their own diets that fit there needs instead of being so general about everything because everyone need different things. It will also help them get used to mypyramid.gov which is used a ton in the health world and it will let them have pratice with word documents and attaching documents and e-mailing them. (something I did not know how to do until I was a sophomore in college)

Content Specific Idea

I am going to be addressing standard 6 from the Utah Core curriculum for health which is "students plan to incorporate healthy nutritional and fitness behaviors." For my project I am going to be using jing, my pbworks website, and two google documents. The assignement is going to take my students through two different tutorials using jing going through the mypyramid.gov website. After they do the tutorials they will do two assignements that are placed on google docs and they will have to fill in the assignment and then e-mail it to me or print it off and bring it into class. The projects are going to involve having the students figure out how many calories they need a day and then making a week long menu with those suggestions.

Link to my PBWORKS website

Here is my pb works website hopefully the sidebar situation is worked out the link is

http://katieiptspring.pbworks.com

http://katieiptspring.pbworks.com/Calendar
http://katieiptspring.pbworks.com/SURVEY
http://katieiptspring.pbworks.com/CONTENT

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TPK vs. TPACK

TPK and TPACK are both ways of using technology in the classroom. Or ways of thinking about how to incorperate technology into the classroom. TPK is knowledge of how you use technology in general teaching context. TPACK is the knowledge of how to use technology to teach content specific knowledge. An example of TPK would be a powerpoing a teacher might use but this only allows a student to follow along to learn the information. TPACK would be something like using mypyramid.gov and the tools it provides to teach my students how to plan healthy meals for themselves and maybe make a movie about it using moviemaker or some other tool.
I hope that I have the reasources and the knowledge to use TPACK in my classroom. Some things I could do are have my students make a public service announcement using photostory or movie maker describing something they see as a social crisis in the health world. Or I could have them do and turn in their assignements using google docs. Maybe their final project could be making a website to promote a healthy lifestyle choice to someone younger than them. There are a lot of things that would be very good in promoting my conent using TPACK.