SAMR
One of our tasks as we create our lessons each week is to ensure that our lessons promote or encompass some combination of these features; collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. As our personal skill and comfort level with the tools of technology grows, we also want to build our lessons so that they enable our students to redefine their own learning pathways.
The SAMR model (substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition) explores the impact of integrating technology on both teaching and learning. It attempts to outline a progression that educators follow in their journey towards redefining teaching and learning with technology. |
In the example above the project relates to a "Travel Brochure". Notice how the more you move to the right in this model (SAMR), the more unique becomes the learning & creation experience for the participant, thanks in part to the tools the learner has acquired.
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Collaboration - Communication - Creativity - Critical Thinking
Collaborate: Diigo , SymbalooEdu , Google Drive (add-ons)
Diigo - Diigo is a powerful online research tool and collaborative research platform that integrates several key technologies, including social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century.
SymbalooEdu- Organize and share the best of the web with your students. Symbaloo provides you a way to graphically organize all of your online resources all in one place while also encouraging student to student communication. Google Drive (Add-ons)- Add-ons for Google Docs & Sheets help extend the usefulness of this productivity suite even further. |
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Communicate: Penzu
Penzu- Build a personal diary or web journal that exists "privately" out on the web. Be assured that you can also share your entries with select friends if you desire to, or share a public link via Twitter to give a much larger audience access to your journal writing.
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Penzu from Penzu Inc. on Vimeo. |
Creativity: Animoto
Animoto is a wonderful app that you can use to create videos that might serve as a culminating activity, a reviewing activity or perhaps to "kick-off" the start of a unit. Your students can use it to demonstrate comprehension of a topic.
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Critical Thinking: Wordle
Wordle is an app for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Students can use the app to help analyze text from famous speeches, documents or books.
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