TPAK & SAMR

At the heart of the TPACK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK). The TPACK approach goes beyond seeing these three knowledge bases in isolation. The TPACK framework goes further by emphasizing the kinds of knowledge that lie at the intersections between three primary forms: Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Technological Content Knowledge (TCK), Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK), and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). http://www.matt-koehler.com/tpack/tpack-explained/

The format and the illustration point out the scenario of these knowledge basis being separate stand alone spheres of information. Properly integrated the three assist and enhance the other. I recall videos of subjects being shown in class and at the most it was entertainment. At Jefferson Day School I used a video by AIMS on a 1990 Philips CD-i console. This provided a 8-10 minute video on a subject, lets say photosynthesis, followed by a 5 question quiz. I had the students come to a quick consensus on their choice for the correct answer. If you answered wrong the video returned to the appropriate spot and replayed a minute of the video with the correct information. In this way the three forms of knowledge were incorporated and the use of technology provided an effective assessment and reinforcement of the important content.

SAMR like TPACK for effective use of technology. The format provides a model to progressively develop more integrated lessons that increasingly depend on technological support. 

Lesson: Geography & Travel

A modification of an idea found at https://edofict.wikispaces.com/SAMR+Examples.
Original Assignment: An overview of a location consisting of hand written content supplemented with compiled cut-and-pasted magazine clippings.

• Substitution: Use presentation software (like Powerpoint or Prezi) to construct a presentation providing information about a selected locale.
• Augmentation: Incorporate interactive multimedia – audio, video, hyperlinks – in the presentation to give more depth and provide more engaging presentation.
• Modification: Create a digital travel brochure that incorporates multimedia and student created video.
• Redefinition: Explore the locale with Google Earth; seek out and include interviews with people who have visited the local.
  

Introduction Blog

Hello Lenoir-Rhyne class, my name is Bill Osterholt.

I returned to school in 2010. Last year I graduated from GTCC and Guilford College. My major was history with minors in Education and Religious Studies. I am a MAT student. After graduation I plan on teaching History to six graders.

This picture is from 1904 in Waterloo Illinois. My father is not in the picture because he was born in 1903. My Aunt Becky is fifth from the left on the top row. Four of my uncles are in the picture, Gus, Herman, Henry is holding the chalk board.

My family has been blessed with four healthy beautiful children.
Crystal 35, Cheri 33, William 22, and Brittany 21.

                                                       Brittany with my 3 grand kids

My oldest Crystal - Gulf War vet. This is high school picture from Oak Ridge Military Academy. Crystal holds a Masters degree in bio-engineering and is pursuing her doctorate at VT. Cheri has owned her own salon in Greensboro for the past 13 years. William and Brittany are both attending Guilford College.

The whole family with grandma at Disney twenty years ago

 

A very interesting thing happened last June when I started classes at LR.

I met my second cousin Cassie Smatana in class

Cassie is from Albuquerque and is the Great Granddaughter of my dad's sister.

I lived in Albuquerque for a few years in my teens and hung out with Cassie's Uncle Gus who is my cousins child. His brother Bernard is Cassie's dad. He was about six when I left Albuquerque.

Bernard and Gus came to Brevard to visit so we were able to get together in August.

Cassie now and with her Dad and brother Chris twenty one years ago.

My sister took this picture on a visit to Albuquerque.

This is me with my elbow on Cassie's dad Bernard's head in 1971.

 Family picture - sitting in chair from right: Bernard holding Cassie - My mother Jessie - My Aunt Sissie who is Cassie's Great Grandmother.

A long time ago

 

 I am sixty years old and have been teaching the martial arts for the last 40 years. The martial arts are studies of concentration, focus and confidence built through achievement. I have taught students from 4 to 84. Since 1976, 102 students have achieved black belt level. This includes 12 families where more than one member made black belt. Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and husbands and wives. The family that kicks together sticks together. That is a humorous take on our real motto which is Family Fitness for a Purpose.

Students of all ages work together. Leadership and collaborative learning is stressed in this art which uses a system of individual progression through a standard base grading system.

Annual Holiday party and the "reading of Grinch." It is always a joy to see the kids react to mean old Mr. Bill reading the Grinch stole Christmas.