Integrating Technology in Education

Technology places a significant role in education. This has grown since the time of COVID pandemic where teachers and students spent many ho urs in Google Classroom, Google Meets, Zoom, and other online resources. Students and teachers had to dig into learning how to implement technology to grab the attention of students. Teachers had to step out of their comfort zone to teach everything online while engaging with their students. Most teachers were used to teaching in the classroom and not online. Students and parents had to navigate at home on how to access Google Classroom, Zoom, and Google Meets. How did parents, teachers, and students get through this weird time?    Image Source: www.sciline.org Accessibility   Let us fast forward to the current day. Classrooms all over the world see an incre ased amount of technology being used in the classroom. Whether it is Smart Boar ds, iPads, or Chromebooks, technology is weaved into day-to-day lessons. Students and teach...

 This week I am taking a closer look into the world of technology that I use in the Special Education Resource room under the  SAMR Model  developed by Ruben Puentedura in 2010, an education researcher.  Image Source: edutopia.org                                                                                      What is the SAMR Model? There are four different layers of SAMR - Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. This framework assists educators in seeing how they are using technology in the classroom and how they are helping to examine the level in which students are learning with the the technology.  Substitution  focuses on something that can be done digitally instead of on paper. For example, a student uses an online ...