TPACK Framework

The TPACK Framework is important to keep in mind while becoming an educator in today's world. Students these days grew up with technology ready for them by the age of two and three. By the time these students are in high school, they will already be ahead of me in the technology world that I grew up with, which I have seen for most of my life and the drastic changes that have happened with it. Most of the students today show signs of wanting technology in the classroom environment and wanting to use it to learn.
Technology knowledge, pedagogy knowledge, and content knowledge all go hand in hand when figuring out lesson plans for education. Keeping the classroom environment interesting and having a good sense of what your students love to do during class, will really keep them all engaged. We want to keep the students motivated in the classroom and making the information more accessible to the students. TPACK focuses on the "what", "how", and the "partner". What are we learning about, how are we going to learn about it, and the tool to which we will use that will reflect the what and the how. 
There are so many positive things that come out of using technology in the classroom, but there are also negatives. Teachers need to find a balance between using technology to keep the class motivated and engaged, verses using it as an "easy out". The TPACK Framework will help organize and balance these outcomes by helping you recognize where and when the technology will be useful or not for the content at hand. ​Technology integration is very important in today's classrooms because that is what the students are interested in, and using it in many ways for different lessons will be very beneficial to their learning.