State Administration for Market Research?

Education technology can be overwhelming for a new teacher. I now not only have to learn how to build lessons and hone classroom management skills, but I also have to find ways to incorporate technology and skills-based learning into my classroom. As someone educated in a traditional and content-based system, I do not have a lot of personal experience of doing this effectively. Technology is the future of education. It is ubiquitous in life, and education is finally embracing it.

But the S.A.M.R. model for technological integration--not the Chinese governmental agency--is an excellent filter to assess education technology. It would be easy to use technology strictly just to use technology; however, applying S.A.M.R. principles to technology integration is a fantastic strategy to evaluate the value an application adds to a classroom. For example, my groups mates and I planned an activity where students would write on sticky notes and place them on the whiteboard for our Literacy Across Disciplines course. We are going to use a jam board as a substitute for the physical sticky notes. Using substitutive technology required us to evaluate additional value-added while weighing the barriers to access and constraints of using jam board. We determined the benefits outweighed any added complications, but only after using the S.A.M.R. model to assess its value.