T-PACK PARAGRAPHS

TPACK – Three Paragraphs Assignment

My T-PACK FOCUS FOR AN 8TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARD:

8E1a.2: Understand the influence of history and culture on English word meaning and vocabulary expansion.
Example: Recognize how the early influences of Spanish explorers in North America expanded American English vocabulary by adding words such as “tornado,” “tomato,” and “patio.”

a. What is the TP knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how does the technology you have chosen support the teaching strategies and methods you have chosen?)



Students will be given choices (differentiation) in the words that they are researching online (computer assisted instruction). They will be providing to the class the information they’ve learned (ownership) by adding to a class blog (writing to inform). They will apply knowledge they have learned in history class (cross-curricular tie-in) to develop an animated map showing the results of their research. They will use their writing, performance (cross-curricular tie-in),and technology skills to develop a short skit (role playing and cooperative learning group) and video.


b. What is the TC knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how specifically does this technology make the content in your problem more intellectually accessible? Be sure to think about representation.)


Students will need to know how to use appropriate online research tools to locate foreign language cognates that have been absorbed into English and how to add those words and meanings to a class blog. Students must learn how to develop an animated map to visually show the migration of those words from one geographical area to another. They will need to know how to write a short skit and film a video to illustrate the meaning of at least three of those words.


c. What is the PC knowledge for the solution? (i.e., how specifically do your pedagogical choices make the content in your problem more intellectually accessible? Be sure to think about how the student will experience the content given these instructional strategies.

Students need to have a historical understanding that as cultures moved/conquered/migrated into other lands, those people brought with them their own language. This migration of language impacted the language of the natives in that region. Students will be actively involved in developing their own historical and culturally developed word bank to share with the class by researching cognates that are currently used in English and determine how those cognates may have arrived.