“Grounded” Technology Integration: Instructional Planning Using Curriculum-Based Activity Type Taxonomies

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Harris, J., Hofer, M., Blanchard, M., Grandgenett, N., Schmidt, D., van Olphen, M. & Young, C. (2010). “Grounded” Technology Integration: Instructional Planning Using Curriculum-Based Activity Type Taxonomies. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 18(4), 573-605. Chesapeake, VA: SITE.
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Journal Information

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
ISSN 1059-7069
Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2010
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education  Chesapeake, VA

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Authors

Judith Harris, Mark Hofer, College of William & Mary, United States; Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina State University, United States; Neal Grandgenett, University of Nebraska - Omaha, United States; Denise Schmidt, Iowa State University, United States; Marcela van Olphen, University of South Florida, United States; Carl Young, North Carolina State University, United States

Abstract

Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK or TPACK) – the highly practical professional educational knowledge that enables and supports technology integration – is comprised of teachers’ concurrent and interdependent knowledge of curriculum content, general pedagogy, and technological understanding. Teachers’ planning – which expresses teachers’ professional knowledge (including TPACK) in pragmatic ways -- is situated, contextually sensitive, routinized, and activity-based. To assist with technology integration, therefore, we suggest using what is understood from research about teachers’ knowledge and instructional planning to form an approach to curriculum-based technology integration that is predicated upon teachers combining technologically supported learning activity types selected from content-keyed activity type taxonomies. In this article, we describe this approach to curriculum-based technology integration, illustrating it with overviews of and examples from six curriculum-based learning activity types taxonomies that have been developed to date. We invite our readers to vet and use these materials, participating in their further refinement via online surveys available on the Activity Types Wiki (http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/).

Keywords

• English Language Arts
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Sciences
• Social Studies
• Curriculum
• Integration
• Literacy
• Planning
• Professional Development
• Teaching Methods

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