Plenary Speaker

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Nur Arifah Drajati, M.Pd

Title:  TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge): The Concept and Practice in the Classroom

What is TPACK? TPACK is a framework for teachers in teaching the course with technology to engage and enhance to achieve the effectiveness of the students’ learning (Drajati, 2018).

·         Pedagogical knowledge:

-          How instructional strategy, teaching methods and instructional strategy apply in the classroom.

-          Project based learning

-          Think-Pair-Share (refers to TPACK)

·         Technological Knowledge:

-          How to use technology

-          Select-use-integrate to curriculum

-          New insight for students in learning

·         Content Knowledge:

-          Facts

-          Concepts

-          Theories

Koehler & Mishra in Drajati (2018) stated that content, pedagogy and technology boost new knowledge for students in learning new concepts in practical ways.

Ms Drajati also giving example the use of TPACK in teaching and learning activities such as:

In how many ways can you teach the topic of energy conservation with ICT?

Figure 1. ways to teach the students with ICT

Based on figure 1, we can see that when the teacher is stimulating the students by showing Youtube videos, it would impulse students’ curiousness. They will start search and explore the material through the web and create concept maps by their selves naturally. At the end students are able to create their own digital stories.

In additional, according to Ms. Drajati’s studies, teachers who has teaching experience ranging from 1-3 years has more varieties in making use of technology tools in their teaching and learning activities. They knew and applied almost all varieties of recent technology in their classroom, such as youtube, social media, video, comics etc. In contrast, the teachers who has more than 10 years teaching experienced and pre-service teachers use the modest technology such as power point and video in creating classroom more active and alive.