When I was researching this question, I found that most sites group them together as meaning the same thing. When I look at them, I have very different ideas of what each of them is. Here is my interpretation:
- Technology in Education - the use of technology to enhance instruction. Examples would include using a creating a website to list class information, a blog to list assignments, using PowerPoint to guide a lecture, using email to contact both parents and students, etc.
- Educational Technology - the use of technology to enhance learning. Examples would include students creating a PowerPoint to show that they understand a concept, students creating their own website, students creating their own blog to express ideas, students emailing members of a group to collaborate on a project, etc.
What is TPACK and how does it help us better understand the role and impact of technology? "Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework that identifies the knowledge teachers need to teach effectively with technology...Effective technology integration for pedagogy around specific subject matter requires developing sensitivity to the dynamic, transactional relationship between these components of knowledge situated in unique contexts. Individual teachers, grade-level, school-specific factors, demographics, culture, and other factors ensure that every situation is unique, and no single combination of content, technology, and pedagogy will apply for every teacher, every course, or every view of teaching." Knowledge about technology cannot be treated as context-free...good teaching requires an understanding of how technology related to the pedagogy and content. (www.tpack.org)
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