The Difference Between TPACK and TPK

TPK in German instruction will simply be using technology to help students to learn. This could be anything from having students collaborate using Google docs to using powerpoint presentations to keep students' interest. These activities could be used in almost any other classroom to help students learn while using technology. Collaborating can help students to share what they learn and gives them a way to share it while Google docs give them technology through which they can do it.

TPK only becomes TPACK when it involves an activity that is only applicable to the German classroom. Having students create videos in which they perform a script which they have created, focusing on proper German pronunciation, shows TPACK. It serves a specific purpose in German, it gives the students an opportunity to be creative as they approach German, motivating them to learn, and it utilizes technology to do it.