S.A.S.S.Y. SAMR: Toolkit for Educators to Transform Instruction. TCEA is upon us and clearly SAMR is a hot topic. I had the pleasure to meet the father of the SAMR model (check out recaps of his sessions HERE), Dr. Ruben Puentedura ***, last year at iPad Summit and have spent the past few months digesting, research, and curating SAMR resources for teachers. (Don’t Miss “Groovy Graphics in the iClassroom”!) Met Dr, Ruben with Fellow ADE’s: Michelle Cordy, Lisa Johnson, Dr. Ruben, and Courtney Pepe In order to provide teachers with an easy to follow framework to digest and apply the model to their own practices and instruction, I decided to create my own acronym, S.A.S.S.Y. based on an adaptation of Dr.
Ruben’s app classification… the Ed Tech Quintet: S: STUDENTS and StorytellingA: Awesome ASSESSMENT (Teacher-Driven and Student-Driven)S: SOCIAL (Voice and Collaboration)S: SEEK: Research and Visualization (Finding it, Citing it, and Displaying it)Y: YOU: Think about Your Own Thinking… To this end the infographic includes 5 pieces of support materials: Strategies for moving from online to networked learning: background & a round-up. So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows. "In Google we trust. " That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy.
Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others. That may not be true, as it turns out. A new study coming out of Northwestern University, discovered that college students have a decided lack of Web savvy, especially when it comes to search engines and the ability to determine the credibility of search results. Apparently, the students favor search engine rankings above all other factors. "I Googled It" During the study, one of the researchers asked a study participant, "What is this website? " Wikipedia Not Trusted as Much Students Need Media Literacy Education.
Library Instruction Resources. Web Tools for Teachers. Social Media Cheat Sheet For Teachers (And Other Bipeds) Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship. Presentation Tools. Technology in Education. T & L - TeCoEd (Teaching, Computing and Education)