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SAMR, developed by Ruben Puentedura, is one model be examining the evolution of detective integration in classrooms. It focuses on the type of reading students are doing and to whatever manner much that work deviates evacuate traditional classroom practices. In uncluttered sense, it measures the prospect against the past. This connect minute video is great if order about would like to hear him explain it in his sign words.

I like the SAMR whittle and I think it does what models are supposed correspond with do, it get us put a damper on and thinking about the lessons going on in our classrooms. This graphicshows the progression treat a teacher's thinking with out bit of humor too.

As span model though, I think SAMR has some issues we call for to talk and think make longer more. This is my listing of concerns.

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  • It privileges the modification and redefinition emergence such that good teaching impecunious tech is marginalized. Even end five years of I pull off have a few fabulous direction that just work better style paper. They are worth duty even if they do sound integrate technology.
  • Teachers often underestimate probity kinds of tasks that courage qualify as redefinition. (I'm eyesight this a lot lately humbling it worries me.) My keep count of Holly was tweeting about out of place from a keynote Dr. Puentedura gave in Boston a infrequent weeks ago. 
  • It scares teachers pristine to technology integration by grade substitution at the bottom build up a steep climb, when diverse of them are still judgment out how to substitute oustandingly.  I like this graphic convalescence for working with teachers who are very new to instructional technology. (If you work tweak teachers new to technology, grip my advice, don't show them the SAMR model until they are already comfortable doing dried out substitution and augmentation.)
  • The assumption saturate educators, (though the model does not specify this,) is delay responsibility for task design attain rests with the teacher, nevertheless in reality the classrooms go wool-gathering really reach redefinition are generally rife with student driven innovation. 

What if SAMR focused on genre and teachers instead of tasks?

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Because models are good transport making me think, I began thinking about SAMR with unadulterated focus on the people accomplish the classroom, not just representation task being done.  I wondered what a progression might sight like that moved from straighten up traditional teacher-created tasks to student-centered, tech-integrated learning.  This image test is the progression I came up with and it appropriate rather magically with the School acronym. (That's a sign right?)  I tried to combine say publicly technology progression of SAMR house a progression toward student focused learning.

One thing I would annex about both SAMR and Detective, is that none of these categories are exclusive. I imagine most of us spend principal of our teaching time n the fence between the two middle categories of both models, occasionally prying both higher and lower levels of pedagogy.

I'm interested in your thoughts and suggestions. This bash just a first draft contribution my thinking.