I think the best way to look at technology is as a means to give more quality time with students. SAMR gives good context to this. Even if a technology is not revolutionary — if it doesn’t “redefine” an aspect of education — it can still achieve the goal of getting more time with students. If an activity is enhanced with technology as a substitution or augmentation, the technology would hopefully make the activity more efficient. The activity could also give some independence to the students, which would then free up the teacher from instruction to interact with the students individually.
On the other hand, technology can be implemented in a way that does not achieve this goal. Sometimes when it is just substituted in, it does not fulfill a purpose beyond what the original activity did without technology. In that case, the substitution might just be more work, and might in fact decrease the quality of learning and interaction. If this is the case, the technology does not meet the goal of getting more quality time with students and should not actually be used in that way. Technology should be implemented in a judicious, intentional manner.
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