TPACK Reflection Questions

1. How well the use of this technology may support your teaching strategies in this activity?
This type of technology supports my teaching strategies greatly. It enhances my lesson plans both visually and verbally. It gives them a chance to be introduced and get excited about what they're going to learn. It gave me an instant ability to include the use of tools like assessments, quizzes and challenges through the Quizlet app.

2. How effectively the use of this technology may enhance students' understanding of and learning from your particular content in this activity?
I felt like this technology enhanced the understanding because of it's constant reinforcement. I integrated the technology with the kinesthetic activity hoping to bring the lesson into a full circle of providing a stronger knowledge base. 

3. What are your strategies and why do you think your strategies are appropriate to teaching this specific content? What makes you believe it would help your students comprehend this particular content? Give specific examples of your described activity. 
My strategy for introduction was to show an encouraging and fun video clip. It is appropriate to this specific content because it modeled for students exactly what we were going to be learning and how we should accomplish it. It helps them to comprehend because they see and hear the finished lesson at the beginning rather than at the end of the lesson, ultimately providing an example.

4. What would be some conceptions and pre-conceptions that students of different ages and backgrounds bring with them when learning this particular content? What would you be concerned about students' prior knowledge, experiences, motivation? Again focus on the content and your teaching strategy, not the technology!
Some pre-conceptions would be do all my student's have an English number knowledge or another number language? At what age did the student's begin to learn their numbers? and how far up can they count? I would wonder can my student's use only single digit numbers or also double and maybe even triple digit numbers? I have to meet my students' where they're at and move forward from there, without this previous knowledge I wouldn't know where to start.

5. What main instructional strategies would this technology use serve in your activity? How would using the technology support the way you teach this activity? Please give examples and be specific to your described activity. Think about your main teaching strategies that this technology would support.
The main instructional strategies technology serves here would be for you tube and quizlet, as these are the apps I used. The instructional strategy from you tube would be gaining or gathering information for a lesson. For quizlet it would be utilizing the assessment instruction from having the ability to quiz or test knowledge gained during the lesson. Both provide reiteration of the information. 

6. What different classroom management strategies you might need to consider when using this technology in the activity? Give examples and be specific to your described activity.
I will need to ensure digital/electronic safety and monitor their tablet or computer use with you tube. I will also need to have eyes as I walk throughout the room during quizzes or tests for work and answer responsibility of the individual student. When active during the video I will need to ensure plenty of personal space for movement as well as a noise level control for the room during the activity.

7. How would  using this technology enhance the way the content is represented in your activity (demonstrations, explanations, examples, illustrations, analogies, and etc.. That is why you think the selection and the pedagogical use of this technology may enhance what you teach (the content in your activity). Give specific examples from your activity to support your answer and keep in mind the learning objectives that you stated previously?
 It definitely gives demonstration and illustrations by using the video. As I stated before it models for my students the expectations I have for what I'm teaching and how they're suppose to learn it.  With constant reinforcement of content they learn my objectives very easily as seen through the use of having a visual and auditory aid added to a kinesthetic activity.

8. In what different ways students practice or understand the content in your activity that would otherwise not be possible without the use of the technology? In adition to motivational benefits, what else can students do with this technology as they are learning the content. 
Without technology students wouldn't see the activity modeled before them, for example the you tube videos. The content is still there it's just not as exciting or inviting for the students. It is very motivational to see what you'e learning up front. Students could also explore related videos or even test themselves with the technology over the subject content they just learned enabling them to see what they may need to work on. The technology gives them instant access to help and information. They can use it anytime from home or school and just gives them time in general to explore what they want to whether it's reviewing or adding information on the content for their own knowledge.