A major takeaway for me from class today was the use and importance of SAMR in the classroom and integrating technology into student learning. Through utilizing substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition, we can identify the enhancement of learning that technology brings, as well as what value is being brought to the students through the use of that technology.
In my schooling experience, technology was usually frowned upon, with laptops being banned from my elementary and high school classes, and in college only using the laptops to follow along with presentations or type papers. Phones were the enemy of my teachers it seemed. It wasn't until this graduate program that I was able to see the potential for technology enhancing learning, and specific ways we can implement it using tools such as FlipGrid, SeeSaw, Google Maps, and so on.
In using the SAMR model of tech integration, we can begin to see the circular routine of learning, making sure to use all models to help our students retain information. We must continually think about where things fall in the model, and then reimagine those things in other models as well. Through this, it is important that we also think about how technology is impacting ourselves and our students and continually moving through the cycle.
Technology use was also frowned on in my high school and middle school! The only time we used technology in the classroom was on specific, highly structured computer lab days. I remember being surprised when my friends in college would bring laptops to class to take notes. It blows my mind that schools are now giving out laptops and tablets to students to use daily in the classroom!
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