Online Instructional Strategies for Enhancing Teachers' TPACK

Abstract

This chapter provides a rich description of how scaffolding discourse and critical reflection with K-12 in-service teachers' online learning experiences enhanced their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for teaching with technologies. The experiences modeled learning through inquiry tasks that merged content, technology, and pedagogy as envisioned in TPACK. The participants connected with the experiences as students learning about and with digital image and video technologies. Reflections on the experiences as teachers combined with the discourse interactions among the communities to influence their resulting individual critical reflections. A major theme was the recognition of the importance of shared knowledge as expanding individual knowledge. Four TPACK components revealed that the collection of the experiences, discourse, and critical reflection enhanced the participants' TPACK leading to recommendations for the design of online in-service teacher learning experiences for enhancing teachers' TPACK.