EDU 1321 Week 9 Reflection by Nicolas Parés https://padlet.com/nicpares2/4afloq7ftuclfsh4 Post your reflection here. en-us 2021-11-14 18:12:47 UTC 2023-05-01 20:53:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Using SAMR and TPACK https://padlet.com/nicpares2/4afloq7ftuclfsh4/wish/2573114235 This week, SAMR helped me understand that technology can be used as a way to replace or build on traditional ways of learning, or it can be used to do something completely new. I see TPACK as complementary to SAMR because it's a model that helps you decide how you're going to use technology, and whether you will use it to substitute, augment, modify, or redefine a task. 

I also appreciated the authors' validation of the complexity of teaching, which now involves bringing pedagogical content knowledge and technology in a strategic way: "The basis of our framework is the understanding that teaching is a highly complex activity that draws on many kinds of knowledge. Teaching is a complex cognitive skill occurring in an ill-structured, dynamic environment. There are clearly many knowledge systems that are fundamental to teaching, including knowledge of student thinking and learning, and knowledge of subject matter . . . teachers will have to do more than simply learn to use currently available tools; they also will have to learn new techniques and skills as current technologies become obsolete." 

I have a lot to consider before using software or tech in the classroom, including pedagogical goals and student comfort with technology. As teachers, we can't assume that all students are digital natives, even younger ones. And we can't assume that all digital natives can adapt to all kinds of technology. ]]> 2023-04-30 20:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicpares2/4afloq7ftuclfsh4/wish/2573114235 Technology https://padlet.com/nicpares2/4afloq7ftuclfsh4/wish/2574210955 With the reading this week the below quoted article made the most since. I deal with technology every day that I teach. My students work on chrome books. I try to use more than laptops but there are days that they work on their GED through Essential Education and don’t need any extra help but there are other days that they need help, and we work it out on the board so that everyone gets a chance to look at it. 

Evaluate the TPACK framework 

The advent of digital technology has dramatically changed routines and practices in most arenas of human work. Advocates of technology in education often envisage similar dramatic changes in the process of teaching and learning. It has become clear, however, that in education reality has lagged far behind vision. Why? Part of the problem, we argue, has been a tendency to only look at the technology and not how it is used. Merely introducing technology to the educational process is not enough.  
 
As a part of Jeanine discussion on technology her was about Flip. 
I’m interested in using the tool Flip (formerly Flipgrid) in the classroom. I would like to use it for two purposes: to give students the opportunity to respond to prompts and questions by speaking rather than in writing, and to give students the opportunity to share inspiration and studying advice with one another. 
My thought on Flip is that it might be easier to make a video instead of speaking up in class or responding to a small group. Not everyone likes that but making a video might be even more frightening because of how other students might respond to the video. 
 
When it comes to technology it just depends on what the teacher and students are comfortable with. It doesn’t matter what another teacher says as long it works for your class then that is all that matters. 
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