Working through the TPACK process was a new experience of working on a lesson plan. Over the past year or so I have worked closely in our district with SAMR. So, having to think about pedagogy, content, and technology together was a little difficult at first. Once, I started thinking about the lesson and it all flowed together nicely. I believe this method of lesson planning would allow teachers to look differently at a simple lesson plan and implement this model to change it for the better of the students in each class.
Using the SAMR model with lesson planning will allow teachers to take a deeper look at their lesson plans. Going through the lesson with each level of SAMR really makes you stop and think about what is best for the students. As I start out in the substitution level of the lesson plan it seems easy and like an old school approach to teach. This level has very little student engagement and might seem very boring to students. As we move into the augmentation stage of the lesson plan we start getting a little more engagement and class participation will go up. In using technology it automatically improves the engagement level, but be careful not all technology can be beneficial to each lesson. Following augmentation comes modification within the lesson. A form of modification with this lesson was using a video recording platform called Flipgrid. This allows teachers and students to hear each other's thoughts. Once you hear how someone explained a certain task and then having students responding to their peers causes great growth and learning in the classroom. Wrapping it up comes redefinition. Redefinition in the SAMR model can be difficult if you don’t perform too often. Here with this lesson having the students make brochures about all of their research and then sharing these brochures to the community via technology is huge for this generation. They will be able to reach so many in the community within our classroom!
Using the SAMR model with lesson planning will allow teachers to take a deeper look at their lesson plans. Going through the lesson with each level of SAMR really makes you stop and think about what is best for the students. As I start out in the substitution level of the lesson plan it seems easy and like an old school approach to teach. This level has very little student engagement and might seem very boring to students. As we move into the augmentation stage of the lesson plan we start getting a little more engagement and class participation will go up. In using technology it automatically improves the engagement level, but be careful not all technology can be beneficial to each lesson. Following augmentation comes modification within the lesson. A form of modification with this lesson was using a video recording platform called Flipgrid. This allows teachers and students to hear each other's thoughts. Once you hear how someone explained a certain task and then having students responding to their peers causes great growth and learning in the classroom. Wrapping it up comes redefinition. Redefinition in the SAMR model can be difficult if you don’t perform too often. Here with this lesson having the students make brochures about all of their research and then sharing these brochures to the community via technology is huge for this generation. They will be able to reach so many in the community within our classroom!