Learning Design Framework

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

This learning framework has three main parts of knowledge: technological, content and pedagogical. You need to understand each part of the framework individually before being able to implement them all together as a learning framework. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) represents the blending of content and pedagogy into an understanding of how particular aspects of subject matter are organized, adapted and represented for instruction (Mishra, Koehler).

                           

By teaching the curriculum with technology (ICT), students will be engaged and will be more interested in learning and retain information for longer.  Knowing how to use the technology in pedagogy is the starting point for this framework. This is important as 21^st century learners are well adapted to technology, where I am still learning about how to use some devices.

Learning Engagement Theory

Teachers can improve the situation of students being engaged in activities they want them to be engaged in, by providing the qualities that will most likely appeal to the values, interests and needs of the students involved. Students who are engaged in learning will retain information as they are interested in what they are doing.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

In Bloom’s taxonomy of learning domains, Bloom has identified six levels in his learning domain,  

1.       Creating

2.       Evaluating

3.       Analysing

4.       Applying

5.       Understanding

6.       Knowledge                                  

The bottom two domains being lower order thinking and the top three higher order thinking.

                                             

  

Activities which would incorporate higher order thinking are activities that will extend and refine their knowledge. Activities I have completed so far like wikis, are good ICT tools to analyse information, while blogs are excellent for creating and evaluating information.