How can the SAMR theory of technology adoption help you evaluate technologies that you might consider using in your classroom?
The SAMR model helps me evaluate technologies for my kindergarten classroom by providing a framework to understand how each tool enhances learning. At the Sybstitution level, I would replace traditional methods with digital tools, like using a digital whiteboard. Augmentation, I could incorporate educational apps with interactive elements, such as tracing letters. At the Modifivation level, I would seek tools that enable new forms of engagement, like creating digital drawings. At the Redefinition level, I could use virtual reality (VR) to take my kindergarten students on immersive field trips without leaving the classroom.This model encourages me to focus on age-appropriate technologies that genuinely enhance learning and engagement.
Could sketchnoting benefit learners in the grade level you hope to teach at? If so how?
Kindergarden is the grade level i would like to teach at. As their teacher i could use sketchnoing myself to support visual learning, and helping students connect ideas with images, which can improve memory and engagement. It also bridges the gap between art and emerging literacy as children begin to combine pictures with words. But, Sketchnoting would be to comlex for my students to do themselves at that age. I think the closest they could get to sketchnoting would be to have multiple words and pictures cut out for them and then, have them color each picture and then match each picture to the word that represents it. then, i would have them glue the matched pairs to a larger piece of paper.