Comparison and TPACK Reflection

 

 

The article “Preservice Teachers’ Reflection on Clinical Experiences: A Comparison of Blog and Final Paper Assignments” discusses the advantages and differences of blogging and paper assignments. In the article, it states that reflections can best use to analyzing connections and relationships from students and teachers, but students and students. Reflection is important because while in the process of reflecting, there is more concentration and consideration of the paper. As a teacher, reflection can help you take what you know about teaching and new things to learn to help your students with a better ability and understanding. The article states that, “teachers who have adopted reflective practices will be better equipped to meet their students’ individual needs.” More focus is being brought to “identifying the presence of reflective content rather than other types of assignments.” It is said that blogging is much easier for students and teachers than having paper assignments in the classroom. Blogging shares their writing with not only the teacher but the students as well. This helps with immediate feedback and helpful tips from fellow students and the teacher. Also, submitting through a blog, the assignment remains visible to the student instead of waiting to see it after the teacher has graded it. There are four ways to assessing reflection starting with habitual action. This means that “reproducing material without showing evidence of understanding it”. The second scheme is understanding, followed by understanding, reflection, and critical reflection. In the end, we can say that reflection post to blogs over paper reflections is far more effective in a classroom. The other article refers to the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, the framework for teacher knowledge. The framework of teaching is built off of three things known as technology, context knowledge, and Pedagogical knowledge. These three domains support each other for effective and good teaching.

Technology 

The three articles about the use of technology now in the classroom and everyday life, shows how drastic the change has been over the years. As a future teacher, I would appreciate anything that will help me be the best teacher I could be. I feel as though technology helps teachers stay organized and have everything properly planned for their students. Not only does this benefit teachers, but I feel as though students get some learning techniques and methods that help them learn in different way and to the best of their ability. I remember using many different technology pieces throughout my years of school that helped so much within the classroom. Also, it sparked more excitement within the classroom because my fellow classmates enjoyed using these technologies. Although technology can be a good thing for the advancement of learning, I feel as though it needs to be limited to where students do not depend on it as much. When students depend too much on technology, they lose any knowledge and excitement of figuring problems or methods on their own. This can also limit the thinking process for the students to use their own brain for work in the classroom. Einstein’s fear should be every human beings fear because this will affect the natural human life. The interaction between human beings within classrooms, jobs, friends, and relationships will be slowly change from little to none.