Week 3 - LDC - Implementing Technology Innovation in the Classroom

Our personal, social and work networks are growing and expanding tremendously fast. We have more knowledge and ideas available to us to process, learn, and respond to. Schools need to now adapt their traditional systems to become connected learning networks, that offer educational opportunities to everyone in a seamless and integrated way.

This week we looked at the SAMR model.

Ruben R. Puentedura, As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice. (2009)So in the 'substitution' part, it basically would mean 'Let's do the same thing over again but use technology.' For example, instead of the student completing a piece of handwritten work, they would just type it up in a Word Document. Hmm, not really much learning going on here. Ok, so what would take place in the 'augmentation' section? Well, it might look like, 'Let's try that again, but use technology to improve it.' and an example of this in the classroom might look like handwritten piece of work being shared, spell-checked, and revised over electronically. When working in the 'modification' level, it's all about, 'To know is to know how to make.' Here the students would be given a variety of choices to create their product, not just a word processed document. Lastly, at the 'redefinition' level, 'Learning is messy', students work collaboratively to solve real-life, cross-curricular problems that they've chosen by crafting a plan or joint document. TPACK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge 

The TPACK framework extends Shulman’s idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.  

 TPACK is a framework that identifies the knowledge teachers need to teach effectively with technology.

Information from Classroom Learning Activity Rubric (SAMR) and Classroom Learning Activity Rubric (TPACK) - The Mind Lab Handouts

At The Mind Lab we created an activity that either used Google Earth or Google Maps. The activity involves the students working collaboratively on a real-world problem. Here's an example of what my students did at school.