#project based learning

[artblog-mrsb]

Using SAMR to Help Integrate Tech in your PBL Classroom

PBL and technology become interconnected through the implementation of SAMR. SAMR is a tool teachers can use to help design lessons that target higher order thinking. SAMR stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. In Substitution, the teacher simply replaces paper documents with digital copies that the students can access. As we begin to work our way up the framework, Augmentation calls for the use of technology that helps a student improve what they would be doing, but does not change the lesson in and of itself.  This may just be the implementation of using Google Docs, with its spell and grammar check, instead of writing an essay or theme on paper.  Modification takes it a step further as it calls for the use of technology to change the task at hand. Students may now be asked to share their docs with other students and provide feedback to each other.  The final step of SAMR is Redefinition. In this step the lesson is redefined and tasks that were previously inconceivable are now possible.  Perhaps instead of writing an essay on paper or in Google Docs, a teacher has students work in groups and utilize Adobe Spark to create a website with the information they gathered as well as pictures and other applicable media. 

When implementing PBL in our classrooms we look not just to enhance learning, but to transform learning through higher order thinking. We begin asking students to not only learn something, but to analyze it and evaluate their own thoughts on the concept. Students  collaborate and create a final product to show what they have learned.  The culmination of this process is to communicate that learning not just to the teacher, but to their community as a whole.  Technology enables us to do this in ways we never could before.  

We can implement SAMR without technology, as we see in the article Essential connections of stem, PBL, and Tech Integration... what would Dewey think?.  In this article Micheal Gorman discusses using cameras, compasses, and scientific recording equipment with his students studying outdoor environments in the 1970’s. Even books are a form of technology.  Our 21st Century technology brings all those tools together, and offers even more possibilities.  Student’s iPads not only allow access to the written word, but also include cameras, compasses, measurement tools, and connects them with experts and each other, all at the touch of a button. 

Through PBL and the implementation of technology in the classroom teacher are more capable than ever of targeting higher order thinking with their students.

REFERENCES

Essential connections of stem, PBL, and Tech Integration... what would Dewey think?. 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning. (2014, September 15). https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/essential-connections-of-stem-pbl-and-tech-integration-what-would-dewey-think/

Introduction to the SAMR model. Common Sense Education. (n.d.-a). https://www.commonsense.org/education/videos/introduction-to-the-samr-model

Ruben Puentedura on the impact of the SAMR model. Common Sense Education. (n.d.-b). https://www.commonsense.org/education/videos/ruben-puentedura-on-the-impact-of-the-samr-model?page=1

[k12academics]

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[sbcwolfie]

Decided I’m gonna use my current art wip for the first page of my sketchbook as my watercolor color project in art because what I’m doing for it, meets all the criteria of not higher for the grade I need. We’re graded based off growth, so I can’t half ass projects if I want a good grade😭

Which if I have a bad grade in art my mentor will literally ask me, “Star how are you failing art!? You love art. Bring your grade up.. your other classes can wait”

I love my mentor, she’s the best.

[gaijinschoollibrarian]

Lesson Plan: Manga & Comic Con Project Based Learning

This post is a little different. I’m going to share with you a PBL that I did at my elementary school which led to a school wide convention. You do not necessarily need to have a con as your POL, and you don’t need to have every grade participate as we did. Two students working on their own manga, using instructional drawing texts. This was a collaboration with my school’s speech teacher, Ms.…

[randomaccessmike]

Overheard as I’m watching teachers share student learning presentations…

Ne’er a truer statement was uttered.

[vishwajyot]

From Playground to Classrooms: Comprehensive Overview of Vishwajyot School in Navi Mumbai

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[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[singlecelledbutch]

hiii i decided to animate the urusei yatsura meme ft the Guys,,, this took soo long and i had to learn like 10000 new things butttt im rly happy w it!!!

[zakiyah]

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[coral-canary]

Pokémon x Pjsk doodles… but it’s just An bc I felt like doodling An…….

(The espeon was her first pokemon and her name is Vivi this is a very important detail I promise)

[raindropsonwhiskers]

Welp. I guess I have new blorbos now.

[randomaccessmike]

Funny. I thought they were talking about most American schools.

That's why we have to change the system.