Tech N Teaching

Hilton, J. T. (2016). A Case Study of the Application of SAMR and TPACK for Reflection on Technology Integration into Two Social Studies Classrooms.  Social Studies ,  107 (2), 68-73. doi:10.1080/00377996.2015.1124376 This week I read an article that broke down two evaluation methods for looking at technology in the classroom. SAMR and TPACK, are the names of the two methods, and this article broke them down within a pair of social studies classrooms. The article did a good job of contextualizing the methods, however, I will not be talking much more about the classrooms from the article. Instead I wanted to briefly discuss the two methods and how I could use them in my own room. The first is SAMR which is an acronym for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. This model seems to come off as hierarchal and the way it is set up or visualized seems to imply that the methods on the top (R and M which are also defined as transformation) are the better ...

Campbell, T. A. (2012). Digital Storytelling in an Elementary Classroom: Going Beyond Entertainment.  Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences,   69 , 385-393. Retrieved April 3, 2018. Student engagement using multimedia, is something that I have continued to do in my classroom. I feel that I am able to engage my students with my animated teaching style and my loud voice, but that is not the end all be all of the educational world any more. For this blog I read an article that talks about how a class of 5 th and 6 th graders were engaged in their writing through the use of technology/multimedia tools. In the article the study used digital story telling to engage their students. To briefly summarize the article for the purpose of my discussion here, the use of digital story telling was very successful in engaging the students. The students were struggling writers, but when they used this multimedia, they were engaged which led to more confidence, which then led to be...