Redefinition Goals

I think everyone who grew up in the 90's and is now leaving school saw a crazy amount of technology change in the classroom. I clearly remember my fifth grade class having overheads, but then everything being on a document camera the minute I walked into sixth grade (also remember seeing an overhead  in my freshman geometry class three years later... Never change Mr. Jamison, never change). We also grew up when cell phones, the internet and social media exploded, but can still remember a brief time before any of that. What I'm getting at here is that we witnessed a ton of examples of substitution and augmentation in the classroom setting but were scarce to see anything implemented passed those levels. Like typing our essays on laptops instead of writing them by hand, using a document camera instead of an overhead, or watching youtube videos on projectors instead of VHS tapes on cart tv's. It was by no fault of our teachers that they only showed us a lot of good examples of substitution and augmentation but not much else. They did the best they could. They were just trying to understand the technology like the rest of us. What I think held them back from modification and redefinition the most was a lack of accessible internet and hubs for students to gather online. Those two things aren't issues for us today which means our generation of teachers has to strive achieve the two higher levels of SAMR more than any previous group before us. At this point with everything we witnessed over the two days of this course we have no excuse not to. We all have to be aware those moments when new technology is introduced to the classroom over our lifetimes - when something replaces the projector and document camera (or better when we can Star Trek beam our students places) - and how do we implement these at the higher levels of SAMR as quickly as possible?