TPK vs. TPACK

TPK is technological pedagogical knowledge, where TPACK is technological pedagogical and content knowledge. I feel like this class is more geared to TPK- it is general enough that hopefully the people in our class from all different majors could find something useful. However, our group projects were probably more of TPACK because we were gearing them specifically to a certain content. I am an English teaching major, and therefore am interested in technology specifically geared toward that. One of these is a program called "My Access," which unfortunately grades student papers and supposedly teaches them how to write. I think "My Access" is a great example of technology being used for a bad purpose! One of my professors talked about how an English teacher took her students to a computer lab, set then up on "My Access," gave a sigh of relief that she didn't have to teach writing, and started reading a People Magazine.
Another example of TPACK might be Turnitin.com, which is a valuable, but imperfect program in which student papers are submitted, and supposedly saved so that teachers can assure they are not plagiarized, as well as documented so that other students cannot plagiarize them. Turnitin.com is somewhere between TPACK and TPK. It wouldn't be used by a teacher of any subject- Calculus or Chemistry teachers probably would not find it valuable to their classroom. However, it could be used my more than just English teachers- history and psychology teachers might use it.