Chapter 11

This chapter provided many ideas about what preservice teachers need to learn in gaining technological pedagogical content knowledge. I have to agree, that even today’s teachers (me) need to rethink, unlearn and relearn, change, revise, and adapt knowledge to better prepare our students and children to not only learn the content, but to think about it, challenge it, search it, explore it, and learn even more about it. Teaching is no longer just standing in front of the room giving information. It’s no longer round robin reading or asking just one to tell his or her thoughts. It’s now about guiding students to search for knowledge and make meaning from what they’ve found. Giving them some of the information and guiding them to create something more is so powerful. Teaching them to think, solve, ask questions, and self correct allows students to practice skills needed in the world outside the school.

Engaging students in experiences that we have not had is scary, but crucial for our children and students.