When
we build lessons that integrate technology, we can use guidelines, principles and standards
that can help us in designing those tasks effecively and achieve the goals that we want
for our students
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| Building lessons that integrate technology |
Here are a few well-known guidelines: (
SAMR Model
· Substitution
· Augmentation
· Modification
· Redefinition
Level 1: Substitution:
This is where technology is used as a direct
substitute for what we already do.
Examples:
·
Students print out a
worksheet, finish it, turn it in.
· Students use digital graphic
organizers.
·
Students use digital drawings.
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| Students use digital drawings. |
Level 2: Augmentation:
This is where technology is a direct replacement to what we do without technology but
there is a functional improvement over what we did before, without using the
technology. This is where computer technology offers an effective tool to
perform common tasks.
Examples:
·
Students take an automated quiz using Google
Forms instead of using pencil and paper and get immediate feedback.
·
Reading and adding digital responses
to a text, comment and share thoughts.
·
Shared Dropbox folder.
·
Sharing notes.
·
Using PowerPoint to explain a
concept.
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| Students take a quiz using Google Forms instead of using pencil and paper. |
Level 3: Modification:
Lessons allow for significant task redesign,
enhancing the day to day work in the classroom.
Examples:
·
Students are required to
record a story that will be played in front of an audience.
·
Combine audio, video and text in a movie presentation.
·
watching an inspiring video and starting
a social movement with a specific cause.
Level 4: Redefinition
Technology allows you to do what was previously not
possible.
Examples:
·
Travel the world by a storytelling
map: students collaborate with other students by speaking and listening to each
other.
·
A global reading project.
·
Skype and collaborate with a foreign country.
·
Create a documentary video
answering an essential question related to important concepts.
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Create a documentary video answering an
essential question related to important concepts
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ISTE – International Society for Technology in Education
The international society for technology in education (ISTE) has designed standards for students and teachers, here are the standards for students:
Standards for students
1. Empowered learner: Students use technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals.
2. Creativity and innovation: Students use a variety of technologies within a learning process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative innovations.
3. Global collaborator: Students use digital tools to get to know other perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
4. Digital citizenship: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of learning in a digital world where everybody has a digital footprint and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
5. Knowledge constructor: Students critically use a variety of digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative outcomes and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
6. Communication and collaboration: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
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| Students critically use a variety of digital tools to construct knowledge |
Webb's DoK : Depth of Knowledge
Webb's DOK chart describes the performance levels
where students demonstrate varying degrees of knowledge and thinking skills.
Level 1: Recall
This level is about getting the facts right. It is about
understanding the material at the basic level, the low order thinking skills.
Questions like:
What? Who? when?
Instructions like:
Describe
Select
Name
List
State…
Activity Examples:
Complete a quiz
Summarize a story
Make a timeline
Level 2: Conceptual
thinking
These are activities that require deeper thinking.
Questions like:
How?
Why?
Instructions like:
Estimate
Organize
Categorize
Compare
Cause/effect
Activity Examples:
Write
a reflection blog
Review
texts in pairs or small groups
Explain a complex concept
Create
mind maps that show relationships between topics
Level 3: Strategic thinking
Students must face problems and scenarios that are
more abstract than those in the previous level. Usually, there are many answers
to a specific question.
Instructions like:
Compare
Critique
Hypothesize
Investigate
Argue
Activity examples:
Exploring
a research question
Delivering
a persuasive speech
Preparing
and participating in a debate
Level 4:
Extended strategic thinking
Students complete a challenge by gathering
information from a few resources. The challenges are usually related to
real-world problems and interdisciplinary issues and require innovation. Students are also required to
critically think and justify their answers and their solutions.
Instructions:
Design
Prove
Create
Research
Here are some examples of extended thinking
activities:
1. Conduct an experiment: state the problem, design
an experiment, analyze the data, and report your results.
2. Research a problem from a few resources and come up with an innitiative to solve the problem.
3. Explain how common themes are found in different
cultures.
A Freebe!
Here is a lesson plan template I created for you to help you plan
your lessons according to these princials and standards. Feel free to download
from here.
I
hope this will help you in planning your lessons,
Please
reflect and commnet below:
For the teachers!
In
your opinion, which standard makes the most meaningful use of technology? What
activities can you create that "realize" that specific principle?
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Resources:
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The HyperDoc Handbook/ Lisa Highfill,
Kelly Hilton and Sara Landis
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