Cooking With TPACK: Flexibility and Persistence

As the articles on TPACK explain, in order to effectively prepare students for the 21st century, we need to integrate our knowledge about pedagogy, content and technology into our instruction. What the “Cooking with TPACK” reinforced to me is that we won’t always have the perfect conditions to integrate technology as effectively as we might like. As we’ve discussed in class, we need to be flexible and persistent. We have to teach the students we have with the resources available to us. That means that we need to be innovative and flexible. As I’ve said previously, we can’t be afraid to take risks and make mistakes. Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a spoon isn’t ideal, it’s a bit messy but in the long run it works just fine. The same goes for integrating technology into our instruction; It won’t always be pretty, but we have to be able to adapt and make it work.