Discovering with Technology for Learning Course- SAMR Model Redesigning a Lesson

    There are a lot of different things that can be done using the SAMR Model to allow students to be creative while learning and to present what they have learned.  In a Discovering with Technology for Learning course I am taking, I have to redesign a lesson that I taught at the lower SAMR Models and bring it above the line on the SAMR Model.  When I say "above the line" it means in the Modification or Redefinition level.  I did a little research on how to make my activity on a higher level of the SAMR Model because I thought it would be a little difficult to do in a resource room with students at an elementary level.  I found a very helpful poster.  Click on the link below for the poster of some apps at different levels of the SAMR Model at from Greg Swanson's Website.

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Here is what my students task in the lesson before redesigning my lesson:
   Before christmas break, I had the students write about the best gift for them.  After the students wrote about what the best present was I had them type it on the computer.  This activity fell in the substitution area of the SAMR Model.

After thinking about how I could change the lesson to be above the line of the SAMR Model the lesson looked like this:
    Students will create interview questions they have to ask someone about the best gift ever.  Students will use the Sock Puppets app on the iPad to record and present this interview.  After interviewing their classmate, students will draw a picture (either by hand or using an application on the computer or tablet) of what their classmate wants and create a Voicethread reviewing the interview they had with their classmate.

    If I would have done my lesson after redesigning it, students would be at the redefining level of the SAMR Model, when completing this activity.  I wish I would have done this activity before Christmas.  I think the kids would have had a lot of fun doing it.  I then would have them e-mail it to their parents.  I think I am going to use this redesigned lesson format for an opinion piece I am going to have my students do later this month.  :)