21+May+2014+Grade+9+BYOD

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• If you had to pick one topic from your classes that best exemplifies why you became fascinated with the subject you teach, what would that be?

• Is there a topic in your class that a significant number of students get stuck on and fail to progress beyond?

• Which topic from one of the classes you teach would, if deeply understood, best serve the interests of your students in future studies or in their lives outside school? . . ||
 * media type="custom" key="25986304" ||  || **Designing A SAMR Ladder**

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Pro Tip: Set the stage for later levels by using a tool like Google Docs, Titan Pad, digital notes, or a mind mapping tool. Little to no collaboration here.
 * Substitution Level:** Documentation. Collecting and Sharing Information (web search, note-taking, worksheets).

e.g. What if we renamed each of the US states with the Country whose GDP most closely matches the GDP of that state?
 * Augmentation Level:** Content connections. Personalizing. Use a visualization tool to show connections between ideas and information (World, Mindmap, Infographic).


 * Modification Level:** Explain/Teach what you've learned; networks of ideas connecting content to larger ideas/patterns. Create an artifact that summarizes your learning for an audience other than the teacher and published online somewhere (Video, Comic, Slide Presentation). A KEY feature of moving from Augmentation to Modification: Students have access to learning tasks that would be unavailable without technology being used.

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 * Redefinition Level:** Recontextualize. Still creating an artifact, but the context for what you are creating changes (relating your learning to a global context, or a different cultural context).

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