Knowledge of Educational Technology (Margerum-Lays &
Marx, 2003 ) views teachers’ understanding of educational
technology through the lens of Shulman’s ( 1986 ) conceptualization
of teacher knowledge—content knowledge, pedagogical
knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge.
Knowledge of Educational Technology is different from the
TPACK framework, in that the TPACK framework emphasizes
the interactions between content, pedagogy, and
technology—treating technology knowledge as separate
but interacting with all other forms of teacher knowledge.
In contrast, Knowledge of Educational Technology treats
the integrated understanding of teaching with technology as
understandable, for the most part, using the Shulman’s existing
framework of teacher knowledge. Speci fi cally, teachers’
knowledge of educational technology can be understood as