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Ken Robinson spoke about the importance of passion. Passion is a vital component of teaching, as well as learning. Passion can be developed and encouraged by using various technologies and integrating them in the Modification and Redefinition levels.

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I realize that I use mainly the Substitution and Augmentation levels.  My challenge, with limited technology available, is to adapt lessons so I can move up the ladder and begin using more M &R.  These levels will increase student engagement and creativity.

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All 3 of these steps have to do with using technology to modify or redefine our lessons. Ken Robinson talked about customizing students learning, which we can do through the use of technology.  When we modify or transform our lessons this allows for a more customized lesson to each student. When students get customized learning we can create excitement in students about learning new things.

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Ken Robinson shared a poem about treading softly on student's dreams. He said that every day students bring their dreams to us and lay them at our feet. That really stuck out to me because I want to ignite a passion in my students to achieve their dreams. In order to do that I have to customize their learning and use more modification, and redefinition to  take their learning to the next level. I think this will help instill 21st century skills that students can use to accomplish any dream they may have.

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Ken Robinson points out that "we make very poor use of our talents. Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they had any to speak of."
Incorporating tech into classroom lessons allows students to have such a wide variety of experiences, learning new things and sharing their learning which provides great potential to allow students to discover and develop their passion! Utilizing the SAMR model allows students to share their learning in an individualized way (accentuating passion!

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I love incorporating tech into the classroom for student engagement purposes, and the learning seems to 'stick.'  My "a-ha" moment is realizing that my 5 and 6 year old students CAN create and explain their learning better with new apps and websites coming out!  I am currently interested in exploring bookcreator, explain everything, and possibly FlipGrid into my lessons! 3 others that interest me are autodraw, sway and buncee.

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After listening to Ken Robinson, I found it very interesting his comment that innovation is hard and people fight it. "It can't be done differently, because that is the way it has always been done." The school I am in wants to go away from paper and pencil, but this year, I saw even more packets made than before. These apps are scary and teachers feel overwhelmed quickly, if they do not feel that they have support from others in their school to try them out. I also find that if teachers do use technology in our high school it is within the S and A of SAMR model. I have an senior high reading group that are too low of readers to join mainstream Language Arts and I struggle with materials and interest levels for them. So, after looking through those links, I have found some apps that I am interested in doing more research into, such as CommonLit.

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My a-ha moment was watching kids create slideshows and doing the research on the same page. Even my low readers and writers can create something slideshows, even better than some adults. Plus, this would tie into some of their strengths: such as art and music, while still reading and writing.

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After viewing the video, exploring different technological trends, and learning about the SAMR model, I realized that all three are connected by trying to improve curriculum, increase student engagement levels, address higher order thinking skills, and all of them are working together to best meet 21st Century work skills.  Every teacher needs to change and keep pace with where their students are at in life.  Technology, more than ever before, allows us to customize and personalize learning for each student.  I love the the fact that technology allows teachers and students to collaborate around the globe and is revolutionizing education.

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My a-ha moment was realizing that education is changing from an industrial form to an agricultural one.  The video asks educators to transform, personalize and customize learning for their students.  I've always understood the concept of passion and that every person has their special gifts.  Schools have a responsibility to encourage students to explore their passions!

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The connection between all three of these pieces is implementation and exploration. I was so excited as an educator to discover and explore the online article 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018 what great resources to take a lesson to the next level. As it correlates to the SAMR model many of these tech tools would take any lesson to another level based on the level of time one allows students to explore. Kim Delzer in the Ted Talk Reimagining Classrooms talks about how you don’t have to be a master at each tech tool out there before trying it in your classroom. I feel it is so important to let students explore and create, they more than likely will teach you something. As educators it is important to  allow flexibility in the assignment to engage students in higher level thinking. This is when authentic learning occurs.

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During the Ted Talk: Bring on the Learning Revolution Ken Robinson talked about personalizing education to the students you are actually teaching, as a reading interventionalist I am allowed the time to do just this. I get to spend thirty minutes everyday tailoring the exact needs to the students daily intervention plan. It is by doing this that I see the most authentic, impactful, learning occurring.

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The connection between the video, links and SAMR model is creating personalized education for all students. Ken Robinson stated "If your doing something you love an hour feels like 5 minutes, if your doing something that doesn't resonate with you, 5 minutes feels like an hour". Every student has a passion for something, it is up to us to explore the world of technology in order to foster, harness and guide their passion in an educationally positive manner.

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My "A-HA" moment was listening to Ken Robinson compare our education system to a "linear, industrial model" when it should be more based upon the "agricultural model". Fundamental change is hard for all of us, especially educators. "We have always done it this way" is said in teacher lounges across the nation daily. Planting those seeds, creating the proper conditions, using technology to advance our teaching capabilities is what we should "always do" in the future.

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Ken Robinson talked about personalizing education and redefining education so that we are engaging and meeting our students educational needs on all levels. The SAMR model guides teachers in redefine lessons with the use of technology.  The use of technology allows teachers to teach core subjects and 21st century skills in a way that is engaging,  intentional, leveled, meaningful, and authentic for all students.

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Ken Robinson talked about how educators are leaving education because it no longer "feeds their passion." I think as educators it is important to incorporate and teach things we are passionate about so that students feed off of that energy. Ken Robinson also talked about how students bring to us their dreams and passions each day. We as educators need to build upon their passions by redefining our lessons to allow for creative, fun, authentic learning. I am so excited to use new technology such as Flip Grid, Book Creator, and Auto Draw as it will allow my students to use 21st century skills and be creativity, allowing them to access things they are passionate about and instill a love of learning that will take them throughout their li.

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Watching Ken Robinson's video, exploring the links, and learning about the SAMR model I have realized that they are all related by personalizing education. Using the knowledge from these three you can start to redefine your lessons to making them more meaningful and engaging for each student in your class.

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Overall, what really shined for me was the connection to blooms taxonomy with the steps. Really placing focus on higher levels of learning by incorporating layered learning. Students and teachers truly can flourish in 21st century learning.

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After going through the three steps, I can see that all of these ideas relate to a higher level of engagement and learning for students. The SAMR model immediately reminded me of the Bloom's Taxonomy model that I studied a lot during my undergraduate work. The goal is to move from a basic level of learning to a higher, more engaging level of learning. The opportunity to be creative and use technology should enhance the learning of our students and give them the freedom to learn in a way that "speaks to their soul" as Ken Robinson stated.

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Throughout the 3 steps, the connections that stood out the most to me were that personalized learning is key and higher order thinking is where we need to try to get our kids to. In order to do this, we need to rethink how technology is used in our classrooms and reevaluate how purposeful it is. We need to give kids the opportunities to create their own ideas and come up with different ways that technologies can be used.

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My moment was during the video where education crosses to an agricultural model. Where students must be addressed in unique and creative ways. This also allows students to explore other channels of learning which helps excite their journey through education.

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What stood out for me was when Ken Robinson talked about how people enjoy the things that speak to their soul, and that it is not the same for every person. How can I help my students find the things that speak to their souls? How can I create opportunities for them to transform learning into things they are excited about - that is what I want to do as a teacher.

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While exploring through the different technology articles that were posted, my "a-ha" moment stood out to me. I definitely noticed there are a vast amount of tools for teachers to use. When looking through the 90 Hottest Ed Tech Tools and seeing quite a few familiar technology tools, I realized it's not about using the tools but how you implement them into your class. Making them benefit your students is the key.

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The part of the video that stood out most to me was when Ken Robinson said that students' dreams are spread beneath our feet, so we need to tread lightly on their dreams. I love that because the kids we work with come to us everyday with their dreams. I want to help them be passionate and excited about working towards those dreams!

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I think the videos and the SAMR model can all relate to each other in that they all mention how to get students to not only learn authentically, but to explore learning in their own unique way. Kayla Delzer had mentioned implementing a "Genius Hour" in the classroom and letting kids research a topic of their interest for an hour a week. I think this is great because students are getting flexibility and choice in their learning and this is key to make learning fun for all students.

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After watching the videos, exploring links, and understanding the SAMR model, there are many connections that I see between all three steps. Most of it deals with taking a lesson and finding out ways to dig deeper to allow students to have a higher level of thinking as well as a way to use technology. The videos discuss ways that we can make school interesting and relatable  to students and their lives. The links and SAMR model help us make sure that we incorporate things into our lessons (choices, challenge, curiousity, cooperation, competition). The SAMR model also helps us to evaluate our use of technology to make sure we are using it in a way that enhances the C's.

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The connection between the three for me was, ok, here you have the technology, what are you going to do with it? Ken talked about bringing it into the schools. We have schools that fully embrace technology and every use of it, to schools that only want students and teachers to use it when they need to use it. The links remind me that we never had enough time in the day to explore, use, create, develop lessons with technology. I think we could use all of our staff development hours doing technology (M/R) planning, and still not have enough time. Which brings up SAMR. I think a lot of teachers do only get to S and A because M and R take a lot more time planning and implementing, and time is something teachers usually dont have a lot of.

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I would love to do more M&R technology with my students but it goes back to, what are we preparing our students for? Am I preparing them for the MCAs in the spring, because I already am lacking in time for that. Or am I preparing them for their future? I would love to prepare them for both, but once again, time is not on our hands. Maybe someday I can figure out a way to do both...

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My A-ha moment was in discovering how the SAMR Model works. I've used several technologies sparingly in my classroom but have yet to move above the line into the modification and redefinition stages. The explanation with the concrete example of a creative writing assignment really sent the message home in my head about where we should be moving our technology use.

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I liked the idea of treading on students dreams and how we need to do that lightly. I think that image is going to stick with me for a very long time. The connections I draw are based on this poem that Ken sites. All the research into new technologies, all the desires to be above the line on the SAMR model, all these things are just looking to do what's best for kids. We want to treat there dreams well and cultivate wonderfully intelligent humans.

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My "a-ha" moment was learning about the SAMR model as a whole. I've never heard of this before but really liked that in the video it took the same lesson but showed how to take it a step further as you went down each level. For example it started with substitution and said that if you were doing creative writing, to make it fall under the S, you would just substitute it by typing. It's the same task, but you just change the one thing. Next, is augmentation and this is when you would use the same creative writing, but when the students are typing it they would use spell check and other technology to augment it. These are the first two SA steps, and it continued through the whole model. This was really the "aha" moment for me because it allowed me to completely understand the model and how I could incorporate that into my teaching as well.

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The connection that stands out to me the most between all three steps is the need to move from a model of manufacturing to a model of agriculture as stated in Ken Robinson's video.  By moving to the steps "M" and "R" within the SAMR model, we are able to stop "batching" students together as Robinson stated.  By making tools such as the links within step two available to our students we are able to watch them grow and collaborate together organically.

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The connection that stands out to me the most between all three steps is the need to move from a model of manufacturing to a model of agriculture as stated in Ken Robinson's video.  By moving to the steps "M" and "R" within the SAMR model, we are able to stop "batching" students together as Robinson stated.  By making tools such as the links within step two available to our students we are able to watch them grow and collaborate together organically.

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As Kelsey stated above, my "a-ha" moment was just learning about the SAMR model in general.  For one, I love acronyms and two, I enjoy the step by step process.  It was interesting to see how just writing an essay on pen and paper can transform into our students collaborating with not only each other in the classroom through technology, but also with others all over the world.

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As Kelsey stated above, my "a-ha" moment was just learning about the SAMR model in general.  For one, I love acronyms and two, I enjoy the step by step process.  It was interesting to see how just writing an essay on pen and paper can transform into our students collaborating with not only each other in the classroom through technology, but also with others all over the world.

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The connections I see between these three steps have been talked about by others, but Ken Robinson's idea of moving education from a "linear, standardized, batching, conforming, industrialized" model to a more "organic, customized, personalized, flourishing, agricultural" model is going to be critical for our students as they learn and grow to be productive adults, able to compete in our advancing world. Ken Robinson has stated the truth very nicely, and my eyes have been opened up to the urgency of incorporating technology, the SAMR model, and the 4C's on a daily basis in our schools, as well as in my intervention classroom. I am guilty of separating myself from what technology is used in the 'regular' classroom, but I realize more than ever that what I do and the technology I choose to use or not use with my students as an interventionist, is just as important in reinforcing 21st Century skills for my struggling students. Seeing some examples of what is available for all learners is amazing, and I am excited to watch as my struggling readers get excited about learning and reading using technology like BookCreator, Flipgrid, blogs, and others.

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I have had many "a-ha" moments throughout this entire class!  It has been great!  A big "a-ha" for me is realizing how much I don't know and how I have been limiting myself, and as a result, limiting my students  by not investigating and keeping up with the technological world.  I have allowed and expected my colleagues to point me to technology that might fit with our student population rather than taking the responsibility for discovering and learning myself.  I have become more confident and excited to implement new technology in my classroom and to allow my students to be my teachers this next  year.  Here we go!!

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The connection for the three that I noticed was how it enhances the personalized learning for the students. It really shows how we can really engage the students with the use of technology. The best part is that you can use technology to differentiate for all levels of students.

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My "A-ha" moment was when I was learning about SAMR. I found this to be very informing and quite useful! I really enjoyed some of the examples given that really shows you are able to make anything engaging with appropriate use of technology.

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All three steps push teachers towards improvement, so that students may improve because of the improving done by their teacher. This creates a new role for educators to become a coach rather than a presenter. As the coach we need to feel the urgency for technology that the world around us is presenting to our students and equip them to take it on head first.

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It is our job to continue to grow and learn ourselves so that we can push our students. Ken Robinson stated that, “we have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish (2015, 14:52). In the ever changing world, it is my job to create conditions under which my students can flourish in their lives, which at this point in time means challenging them to use technology in a way that is a challenge for them. Not what they have always known.