Original Assignment: A hand written paper

SAMR Product: A word processor and text-to-speech function are used to improve the writing process.

Original Assignment: A hand written paper

SAMR Product: The document created using the Word Processor and text-to-speech function is shared on a blog where feedback can be received and incorporated to help improve the quality of writing.

Original Assignment: A hand written paper.

SAMR Product: Instead of a written assignment, students convey analytic thought using multimedia tools.

Students use a word processor for their writing. Students can now easily edit and format their writing.

Published work is now printed rather that handwritten. Students can save various drafts of their work.

Students search the internet for information to support their persuasive topic.

Students improve their writing through the tools within the word processing program e.g. spelling, grammar check, thesaurus, word count.

Images and graphics are easily embedded within the document.

Students can email external sources for further information.

Teacher shifts the focus of some of the writing task to be collaborative.

Students use an online collaborative space (e.g. wiki) to write in small groups, conduct peer editing and feedback, and to comment on final products.

Work can be done in class time, as well as out of class.

Teacher chooses to collaborate with other classes locally or globally on a common issue, using video-conferencing.

Students research and share their findings within a virtual classroom, in order to find a common solution. The project used the strengths of students form different classes.

Students use a range of multimedia to collect, communicate and distribute their findings and conclusions.

Use Google Docs to write an illustrated paper collaboratively with classmates from home.

Use Explain Everything App to create an illustrated math problem, and post it on Seesaw for classmates.

Share responses to literature in an online chat.

Use Notability App to take notes with links to iMovie videos of science investigations; share those with classmates in Seesaw for discussion.

Use DropBox to share notes, photos, and videos of science inquiry with experts in the filed; Skype with them to discuss finding s and future research.

Use a book-creating app to create an ebook with sound.

Create and share illustrated math problems in a virtual math book for students throughout the school – or at other schools – to solve.

Use SubText to read a book and to share annotations with students at another school – or create at another school – or create an interactive book in iBooks.

Use Notability App to take notes synchronized with recording; add photos and graphs, and organize notes in folders.

Write a persuasive paper as a Pages brochure, using spellcheck and inserting photos.

Use Explain Everything App to explain reasoning for a math problem with pictures, text, and voice recording.

Read an ebook using the highlighting, annotation, read-aloud, and/or dictionary tools.

Takes notes in Notability App.

Write a paper in Pages.

Use Explain Everything App for individual whiteboard practice in math.

Read an ebook.

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

SAMR Product: Use an Excel worksheet to let students "color in" the blocks.

Original Assignment:

Show understanding of fractions on a worksheet by coloring in blocks.

SAMR Product: Use a Google Sheet to let students “color in” the blocks, where the teacher can offer feedback directly on Google Sheet.