The Knight Lab at Northwestern University is a community of students and educators who work with designers and developers to provide a variety of tools in order to pursue ideas in an open and collaborative way. The Lab is best known for a suite of innovative experiments that are open-sourced and adaptable. Learn more about The Knight Lab here and keep up with their projects via their blog. The Lab develops a variety of experiments and projects to support meaning making and storytelling. Their best experiment, TimelineJS, has been used by over 250,000 media makers worldwide. Check out their entire suite of projects that includes links, tutorials, and other ideas for your classroom.
How do you plan to dive into The Lab's resources? Leave a comment below! This week's Tech Tip Tuesday is coming back around to the concept of SAMR. You'll recall we had a discussion about SAMR a few weeks ago. You can revisit that discussion here, and you can review the levels with the image below. While SAMR is a great model to explore the integration of educational technology in the classroom, there are still some issues that we should consider. For instance, the model tends to privilege the two levels of redefinition and modification. This privilege can have the unintended consequence of marginalizing good, quality teaching that does not employ digital technology. There are still great lessons that use non-digital (re: paper and pen!) technology. Also, by placing substitution at the bottom of the model, it can negatively impact teachers who are otherwise willing to try new technologies in their classroom. By creating this hierachy, it can feel like a long way to climb up the ladder in order to "effectively" integrate technology. It is also important to point out that SAMR tends to focus on the task instead of the people in the classroom. It seems to still rely heavily on a teacher-focused classroom instead of a student-focused one. So what if we focused on the people instead of solely on the task at hand? Kathy Schrock expanded on a model created by Jen Roberts in order to explore the combination of Bloom's, SAMR, and the integration of technology. You can see the image below. As you can see by including Bloom's, the instructor can focus on higher-order cognitive skills. By then building on SAMR but focusing more on people over tasks, the instructor can move away from a teacher-centered classroom and more to a student-centered, tech-integrated classroom. This shift allows for more choice and more student autonomy while addressing students' needs and interests and focusing on authentic learning. Want to learn more? Check out How to Integrate Google Apps with the SAMR Model
In my current professional role, I make A LOT of videos. Probably about one video a day for the last six months. I have a number of tools that I use to make these videos, but sometimes I just want a quick video that covers specific content in a quick and easy way. In comes Screencastomatic to save the day! Screencastomatic allows you to capture video on your computer screen, with your webcam, or a combo of those two. It is easy to use...just follow this tutorial! If you want to think through your resources and find different tutorials to help walk you through how to use Screencastomatic, Joel Speranza created a great flow chart for you to follow: How are you using Screencastomatic in your classroom? Please leave a comment below.
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Julie K. Marsh is a long-time educator, a PhD candidate at The College of William and Mary focusing on curriculum and educational technology, and the Coordinator for Distance Education and Instructional Design at Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia. Her current research interests include Design Thinking, Community of Inquiry, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), creativity in the classroom, open sourced educational resources, and participatory culture.
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