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SAMR and Blooms
Which of these models is the most useful for you at your stage in your teaching career and why? How could you apply it?
SAMR and Blooms
SAMR and Blooms
SAMR
SAMR
Based off this image, I believe I am operating with technology in between 'augmentation' and 'modification' because in my classroom I tend to use apps such as Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Classroom. I believe I operate using technology in my classroom at an 'augmentation' stage as I do use technology for example, students who do not have the fine motor skills to write, I allow them to use a laptop to write down the notes. Another example is allowing students to do assessments tasks using technology rather than writing it. I also believe that I utilise technology at a 'modification' level as I have sent work for students that has been absent from school on Google Classroom for them to catch up (Hilton, 2016).
An example of a class that I utilized this model to the fullest potential is when I was one of my high school practicums, I taught a year 9 PASS class. My supervisor teacher had a Google Drive set up with a PowerPoint presentation and loads of worksheets and videos. During my teaching of this class, I was able to utilize the Google Drive and pick and adjust resources I liked to suit my teaching style, so I had a variety of technological resources for the students . This was beneficial for my teaching as I could teach the way I wanted and try different teaching strategies.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy
When looking at the Digital Bloom's Taxonomy Pedagogy Wheel, I believe I largely operate the use of technology in my classrooms at the lower order thinking skills. This is because I tend to use more apps down on this end such as Google, Google Docs, TED Talks, YouTube and Google Maps. These apps are used for classroom activities such as looking for definitions or facts, looking at visuals such as an introductory video and PowerPoint presentations where there are diagrams and writing (Marcovitz & Janiszewski, 2015) .
An example of where a utilized this model and technology to the fullest potential is on my first high school practicum, I taught a Year 9 PDHPE class on Summer Safety and CPR. In this lesson I decided to change my approach to a fully technological base lesson as the class had high behavioural issues to try make learning more engaging for the students. I had a PowerPoint presentation to guide my lesson but throughout the lesson there was a game of true or false where the winner got a prize, videos of the content for students got to practice on the manikins provided. Students where well behaved during this lesson as the students were engaged in their learning and the games.
Which of these models is the most useful for you at your stage in your teaching career and why? How could you apply it?
Which of these models is the most useful for you at your stage in your teaching career and why? How could you apply it?
Technology is one of the most important aspects to teaching in the 21st century and there are a variety of models that are useful for implementing this. Out of the models, I believe that the SAMR model is the most useful for me at my stage of my teaching career as I am just starting to be in classrooms more often as I am working full days a week as a casual teacher. I would apply the SAMR model as it allows teachers, especially new teachers such as myself, to implement technology into daily lessons as a form of a different task (Marcovitz & Janiszewski, 2015). The SAMR model will allow me to create more engaging learning opportunities to make student as this model allows students to learn in a variety of ways. Examples of different learning activities include PowerPoint presentations, Kahoots, research tasks and visual learning such as videos (Phillips, 2015). Changing learning activities up creates engagement in learning as students are always doing something different rather than just writing textbook notes.
I believe this model would be the easiest for me to implement technology into my lessons as this model describes four different simple ways this can happen. Other models such as the Bloom's Digital Taxonomy will benefit me once I develop my teaching as this model is used more to facilitate learning rather than integrate learning. While the TPACK model is a model based off other content and pedagogy (Hilton, 2016).
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