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"Grounded" Technology Integration: Instructional Planning Using Curriculum-Based Activity Type Taxonomies
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
  • Judi Harris, William & Mary - School of Education
  • Mark J. Hofer, William & Mary - School of Education
  • Denise A. Schmidt
  • Margaret Blanchard
  • Carl Y. Young
  • Neal Grandgenett
  • Marcela Van Olphen
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Education
Pub Date
1-1-2010
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 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, which are available on the activity types Wiki (http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/).

Citation Information
Harris, J. B., Hofer, M. J., Blanchard, M. R., Grandgenett, N. F., Schmidt, D. A., van Olphen, M., & Young, C. A. (2010). "Grounded" technology integration: Instructional planning using curriculum-based activity type taxonomies. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 18(4), 573-605.