Share Paper: TPACK’s Arc of Technology Transparency and Teachers’ Ethical Obligations: Understanding The Digital as the New Materia Medica of Pedagogy

  1. Cathy Adams, University of Alberta, Canada
Wednesday, April 8 3:15-3:30 PM Room 3 - https://tinyurl.com/room3site

Abstract: In his landmark essay on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Shulman (1986) described technology as the “materia medica of pedagogy, the pharmacopeia from which a teacher draws” (p. 10). This crucial passage about curricular knowledge and instructional materials was overlooked by Mishra and Koehler (2006) in their popular formulation of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), yet it hints at important technoethical obligations for today’s teachers. For if technological solutions are indeed pharmacological in their pedagogical effects, then teachers must carefully weigh every new technology’s benefits against its possible risks and adverse effects on their students’ knowledge ecology and well-being, and by ...