SAMR Model

SAMR Model

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The new 21st century learners are sitting in your classrooms, ready to explore, design, and create. If you provide the resources and transform their mindsets, powerful and effective technology integration will follow.

Read the original assignment and determine the appropriate SAMR level for each new assignment.

You may refer to resources included in Academy Google Classroom.

Multiple Choice

Original Assignment: A handwritten paper.

New Assignment: Instead of a written assignment, students convey analytic thought using multimedia tools.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

Original Assignment: Take a quiz, answers handwritten in a printed form.

New Assignment: As an alternative form of assessment, students could be asked to write an essay around a relevant theme. The written essay could then be narrated and captured as a vocal recording or video.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Modification

Multiple Choice

Original Assignment: An overview of a location consisting of hand

written content supplemented with compiled cut-and pasted

magazine clippings.

New Assignment: Explore location with Google Earth; seek out and include interviews with people who have visited the location.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

Original Assignment: Learning how to hit a baseball by watching and

listening to a coach or Physical Ed teacher show you and then trying it yourself.

New Assignment: The coach/teacher videos the training exercise and provides links to other training content (videos and articles from other coaches, etc.)

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Augmentation

Multiple Choice

Original Assignment: Show understanding of fractions on a worksheet by coloring blocks.

New Assignment: Use an Excel spreadsheet to let students “color in” the blocks.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Read the assignment provided and determine the appropriate SAMR level for each new assignment.

You may refer to resources included in Academy Google Classroom.

Multiple Choice

While writing an essay with a word processor, students use built-in features such as cut/paste, spell checking.

Some functionality of the technology is used to enhance the task.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Augmentation

Multiple Choice

Students access a set of slides the teacher prepared on genetics and take notes on the PowerPoint as the information is presented in class.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Multiple Choice

Students create an electronic survey to better understand world customs and beliefs. They then share the form online with schools all over the world, analyze the data, and publish that data on an interactive map.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

Students present their research to the class and send an electronic feedback survey to their classmates to find out how well they presented material (e.g. understanding of the material, delivery of the material, overall presentation and flow, etc.). Students then analyze their feedback survey results and email the teacher to describe improvements they would like to make on their next presentation.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Answer is Modification

Multiple Choice

Students use an online tool that offers a Venn diagram template to organize their research notes and include photos and links.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Augmentation

Read each activity provided and determine the appropriate SAMR level for each new assignment.

You may refer to resources included in Academy Google Classroom.

Multiple Choice

Strand: English Language Arts; Reading; Informational Text

Activity: A kindergarten student reads a book about Lions on his /her iPad, selects the text and taps “Speak” to listen to the words on the page as every word is highlighted (as it’s spoken) left to right, top to bottom.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Augmentation

Multiple Choice

Strand: Mathematics; Geometry

Activity: Students use a Whiteboard App to draw points, line segments, rays, and perpendicular and parallel lines on iPad.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Multiple Choice

Strand: English Language Arts; Science & Technical Subjects

Activity: 12 grade students design their own science blog. They research a science topic of interest & document their hypothesis, data, analysis, and conclusion within a blog post that includes graphs & media as supporting evidence. Students are paired w/another student from a nearby high school to read, study, & discuss their blog post on science experiment conducted. Students collaborate back/forth until another experiment is conducted or a joint conclusion is made.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modifcation

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

Strand: Mathematics; Measurement & Data

Activity: Students walk around the school taking photos of 3 objects that are different lengths throughout their building and save the images to their iPad camera roll. Next, they use a storyboard template to document the 3 photos, titles, brief descriptions, and type/write a script that compares 2 objects to the third. Finally, students use the storyboard template to produce an iMovie that includes the photos, titles, descriptions, and an audio recording reading their comparison script.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Multiple Choice

Students are designing a park. They use the Internet instead of books to determine actual dimensions of the various items going into their park (playground equipment, building sizes, flower gardens, fountains, etc.).

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Multiple Choice

Students use Skype in the Classroom to meet live with a science museum director to compare / contrast animal adaptations of their region with other animals in other regions of the United States.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correc answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blank. The Substitution and Augmentation levels _________ lessons via technology.

• Enhance

• Transform

• Modify

Correct answer is Enhance

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blank. The Modification and Redefinition levels __________ lessons via technology.

• Enhance

• Transcribe

• Transform

Correct answer is Transform

Multiple Choice

COLLABORATE:

with peers during a Pear Deck presentation with live checks for understanding

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Modification

Multiple Choice

SYNTHESIZE:

information to solve problems and complete a virtual escape room in Google Forms.

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Redefinition

Multiple Choice

DEMONSTRATE

knowledge of fractions by completing a worksheet on Google slides

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Substitution

Multiple Choice

APPLY:

knowledge by completing problems on Khan Academy

• Substitution

• Augmentation

• Modification

• Redefinition

Correct answer is Augmentation