After this class, I am still struggling to see ways in which technology in the math classroom can be used at the Modification or Redefinition levels of the SAMR model. I now know several ways to use technology at the Substitution or Augmentation levels, but I think I will need to do more research on how teachers have used technology in their classrooms in order to go beyond those enhancement levels in my lesson plans.
That being said, I plan on using video recordings and the graphing calculator to implement technology into my high school mathematics classroom. One idea I have is to video record student answers. At the end of each class, I will have about 15 minutes of work time, during which students are encouraged to start on homework. While their peers are working, three pairs of students will be working on three different problems, which I have deemed the most challenging problems from that evening's assignment. The pairs will solve their problem, ask for me to check their work, and then video record them explaining the step-by-step process to get to the solution. The next day in class, I will use the three videos as aids to answer student questions about those three problems.
Through this process of recording students' explanations, I am accessing the Modification level of the SAMR model. The recording allows for significant task redesign because, without the use of technology, I could not have a pre-recorded, correct solution for some of the homework problems from the student's point of view. Learning will be enhanced by this video implementation because students will benefit from hearing their peers explain a problem and the students explaining the solution will develop a deeper understanding of the problem solving process. I could even modify this activity by assigning different problems to different periods of the same subject so that I have video recordings of anywhere from 3-12 problems for each assignment.
I like your idea about using video recordings of students recording their work and explanation of answers. I think it is great to incorporate other students’ work and highlight hard work! This is an awesome way to incorporate the SAMR model. I think you will find success with this technique since students learn very well from peer instruction and explanation. Way to go – nice thinking!
ReplyDeleteIt will take time to come up with more ideas in the redefinition portion of the model, but I know that with time as a teacher, the ideas will flow more easily once you are in the classroom setting and seeing how your students like to learn best.
I like your idea about using video recordings of students recording their work and explanation of answers. I think it is great to incorporate other students’ work and highlight hard work! This is an awesome way to incorporate the SAMR model. I think you will find success with this technique since students learn very well from peer instruction and explanation. Way to go – nice thinking!
ReplyDeleteIt will take time to come up with more ideas in the redefinition portion of the model, but I know that with time as a teacher, the ideas will flow more easily once you are in the classroom setting and seeing how your students like to learn best.
Shawna,
ReplyDeleteI too like your idea on the video recording for your future students, I feel that Math would be a difficult subject to use technology in outside of substitution and augmentation. I'm wondering if there has been any research involved in the SAMR model when it comes to mathematics? I'm wondering too if you could use the idea of video when it comes to a math problem and have your students watch the video for homework and tell you at what minute you went wrong in the math problem. This would be a good example of SAMR Model and flip the classroom for the students to control! Could be fun! Nice work here!!!
Cheers.
Ryan
I think this is a great and very practical use of technology! It would help students solidify their own understanding by explaining their work and then it would help their classmates by having another source to learn from. These videos would be great study tools if they were posted to a website that students could access whenever. You could even expand on this by having students reteach different concepts from your course.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem harder to come up with ways we can apply SAMR in a math class but I'm excited to work with you and the other math concentration MITs to come up with some creative methods. Thanks for this great idea!