When I started this workshop, I thought that I know a lot about e-learning. On the way, I noticed my mistake, I just have a piece of the big picture. My knowledge about tech was simple Canva, Kahoot, the Google family apps plus a few tricks on my Apple devices.

this workshop makes me capable of working efficiently in both tech ecosystems, I became more creative and versatile in terms of creating tasks, and today I’m capable of finding a new way to use the typical tools. Ex: Jamboard as presentation software.

I’m always open to new possibilities this course is a huge playground for me, I learn better by doing things so the principles of this class and how I work are a complete match. I was able to put names to concepts I use every day as a student and tutor.

SAMR and TPACK are very useful models. I use to enjoy SAMR for its simplicity, I was lazy and doesn’t want to walk outside my comfort zone. When we started to deal with TPACK I noticed that was more complete and challenging to use, I love a good cognitive and intellectual challenge.

I have had a lot of Eureka moments in this class, more than in any other class. Because I learn new ways to simplify my life through technology. Today I use more pages to make didactic resources, tasks, and assignments that before some of the resources I use are: hyperlinks, TEDed, Mentimeter, or Quizlet among so many other great educative technological resources.

I define this class as exciting, motivating, and surprising. I see my learning process as a big tree 🍃 like an oak that with every class grew inside my head. Today my forest of knowledge is more vast!

Assesment is a complex process where teachers measure, document and evaluate the different aspects of the learning process and the acquisition of skills. That allows us to make informed decisions on promotion (of level, unit or semester/year), activities/task design and evaluation/assesment tools.

Assessment methods are the different strategies you use based on which skills you need to measure. Ex: Analytical, Metacognitive or collaborative work among many others.

Assesment tools are the specific instruments you use to measure the skills each method has different tools to measure their unique abilities. Ex (Assessing creative skills); Portafolio, Interactive performance or design a learning experience.

The assessment tools are software or platforms that help you have a record of the progress of your class, grade it and work by their side in their learning process (Google Classroom).

Lowest order thinking skills (remember,define, list or duplicate); Naiku, Gimkit, Edulastic, Socrative, Quizizz, among others options.

In the middle you have the apply section; Animoto (demonstrate what you learnt), Flipgrid (use videos to show what they understand), Micropolls and Proprofs.

For the higher order thinking skills evaluate and create you have sites such as: Coggle, iBraistorm, Padlet, Miro, AnswerGarden, Genially, Canva, Mentimeter .

Jamboard (Google): it’s not originally made to act as presentation software, but by using more than one whiteboard you can present content or subject interactively. The main benefit is that your students can interact while you are presenting.

Google slides: is a popular, easy-to-use platform. That is made to collaborate with others using the different tools from google.

Canva: a relatively new platform that allows the creation of a wide range of educational materials. Being the most popular school or university protects.

Genially: It’s online creation software (it’s competing with Canva). It has many tools, it’s interactive and the main use is educational.

Image and appearance (Unit 3): In this unit, we are going to learn about the diversity present in our society.

Objective: Write an opinion essay on Sexual orientation and Gender Identity subject.

Activity:

• Read comprehensibly “Gender Orientation and Gender identity” and take notes.
• Make a web search on the concepts you don’t understand completely.
• Revise “An opinion essay” from BBC learning English.
• Write an outline and a draft of your essay in google docs.
• Post your final essay on your edublogs and share it in the class google classroom.

Justification: By experience, I learnt that is better to be part of learning experiences. So, I create an activity that involves the exercise of different higher-order thinking skills (Reading comprehensively, researching, organising and writing an opinion essay).

I used different e-learning tools to work with the information, but they also need to find concepts they don’t know or understand.

For the A, we design a digital vocabulary cards

For the M, we formulate a small forum to answer down here in the comments section;

1. Did you ever attend to an Opera show?
2. Why Dolphins are regarded as the friendliest sea creatures?.
3. Why passenger-and-car sink.
4. Why the erosion of the land accelerated?.

For R;

1. Read, practise and record the passagues
2. Post them on your edublog, share them on classroom on Google Classroom.
3. Visit some of your classmates, listen to their recordings and leave some feedback comments (audio or type It).

On this occasion, I choose the TPACK model. Personally, I find this model very complete because it addresses a broader spectrum of abilities, it includes from technological to pedagogical/personal competencies. Its focus is not on tools like the SMAR model, TPACK has Why/What/When/Where/How and after you have the skeleton of your class you decide, on which e-learning platform you will work with.

• Open the TED-ed .
• Watch and take notes.
• Answer the questions.

1. Choose a text related to tolerance/intolerance in daily life.
2. Read comprehensively, look for and highlight unknown words.
3. Use Cambridge plus (app/website) to build a set of vocabulary cards: You can use the image-definition or the word-definition model.

As Peachey mentioned a lot of teachers are reluctant to use educational technologies in the classroom basically from fear of the unknown (not knowing how to use them, student growing up in this tech era or tech fallibility).

SAMR is a simple model that give us answers of how we can incorporate technologies in the classroom (To transform our manner of teaching). From simple forms like substitution. For example: A Kindle substitute a analog book) to more complex tasks in Redefinition; You read about a subject, you create and write an script, you record a video performing the script, you develop a presentation on Canva , and create an online survey so your classmates can comment on your work.

The more interesting thing is how you can connect this model to bloom’s taxonomy from more simple cognitive skills like substitution , to high order skills (apply ,analyze, evaluate and create) in Redefinition. More complex the task is easier to develop high order cognitive capabilities.

Some of Peachey’s tips I been applying for some time now. My motto is “I learn more from my students, than my students learn from me”, I’m always asking my tutorees about their impressions so I give a better service and that way I find out about their impressions.

In summary I find this model very useful because can be use today and in the future despite of the evolution of technological means.

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The SAMR model, is a way to organize the different ways we can play with technology to teach (from the most simple skill to the high order skill development).

Let’s play!