Translator terms

Hello, I'm Mª Cruz and this week I am the translator, so I' ve collected the 5 most important terms that we have learned this week and I' m going to explain each concept with my own word based on “academic resources”. I hope that they will be helpful.

Resource:  

A resource is a source or supply from which benefit is produced. It could be something that a country has and can use to increase its wealth, a supply of something ( such as money) that someone can used when it is needed, or a place or a thing that provides something useful.

Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)

It refers to the understanding of the teacher regarding to the importace of technology when they are teaching, how it can affect the performance of their students, because teachers not only need to know the material, also have a deep knowledge of how these technologies can influence the presentation of content.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK):

It consist on the transformation of topics that are going to be teached, making teachers give a particularly interpretation of the contents. To do it, the teacher have to adapt all his didactic resources and also keep the previous knowledge of the students, following the curriculum and the programming.

Technological Pedagogical knowledge (TPK):

It refers to how through technological or other tools used, teaching and learning can change. To make good use of this, we have to know the advantages and limitations of these technological tools to promote or limit some teaching strategies.

Mind map:

It is a diagram used to organize information, starting with an image in the center of a blank landscape page, in which we associate different ideas that are connected to the central concept and maybe between them.