Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Exploring, Developing, and Assessing TPCK [Hardcover]

Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) reflects a new direction in understanding the complex interactions among content, pedagogy, learners and technology that can result in successful integration of multiple technologies in teaching and learning. The purpose of this edited volume is to introduce TPCK as a conceptual framework for grounding research in the area of teachers cognitive understanding of the interactions of technology with content, pedagogy and learner conceptions. Accordingly, the contributions will constitute systematic research efforts that use TPCK to develop lines of educational technology research exemplifying current theoretical conceptions of TPCK and methodological and pedagogical approaches of how to develop and assess TPCK.1.?Intro.- Part 1:?Toretical Perspectives about the Nature of TPCK.- 2.?Re-thinking and Re-representing TPCK: Addressing the complexity of teaching with technology.-?3.?Mapping TPACK and the Teacher Knowledge Base: Identifying Common Language, Contexts, and Assessments.- 4:?Transforming Teachers Knowledge for Teaching in the 21st?Century: Advancing Teachers Education (Margaret L. Niess, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA). -?Part II: Research-Based Perspectives about the Nature of TPCK.-?5:?The Essential Role of Pedagogical Knowledge in Technology Integration (Cheryl L. Ward, Susan N. Kushner Benson, and??Xin Liang, University of Akron,?USA).-?6: The TPACK-model revisited?(Petra?Fisser and Joke Voogt, University of Twente, The Netherlands).-?7:?Cognitively Representing TPCK  Mental Models of Tool Functions and Cognitive Integration Processes (Karsten Krauskopf, Carmen Zahn,?and, Friedrich W. Hesse).-?Part III: The Development of TPCK in Pre-service Teacher Education.-?8: Design and implementation?of educational activities?with the integration of TDCK: a case study?of students at a?Department of Early Childhood Education (Aggeliki Tzavara and Vasilis Komis,?University of Patras, Greece).-?9:?A lóÌ