CONT933 Module 2 Culminating Task Template

PART 1: Reflect on the SAMR Model

Think about a lesson that you’ve created or that you will create in the near future.
If you could use a technology tool to further the learning of your student, what would it look like? Sound
like? Feel like … for the student and for you?
When and how could you move that lesson to the next level of learning?

Activity Name: Desmos Activity on Straight Lines

Grade Level: 10 Foundations and Pre-Calculus 10

Curriculum Content Identifying characteristics of graphs (including height, slope, and

(Mathematics): intercepts)

Curriculum Content School laptops

(Technology):

Level on SAMR Model: Substitution

Description of Original Activity (point-form or sentences):

Students used laptops to find examples of different items or places that represent slope.
Given what they knew from the previous lecture, they were to determine the slope equation, and
the x and y intercepts of each of their examples.

PART 2: Now re-create part of the lesson (from Part 1) to reflect a change on the SAMR Model:
Curriculum Content Core Competency: Thinking
(Mathematics):
Identifying characteristics of graphs (including height, slope, and
intercepts)

Curriculum Content Desmos Activity: Land the Plane

(Technology):

NEW Level on SAMR: Augmentation

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Description of New Activity (point-form or sentences):
Rather than research, students will be completing the activity “Land the Plane” and “Marbleslides:
Lines”. Both activities give a visual representation of how the graphs transform/translate.
Each activity can be tracked by myself on my own computer.
Students will then write a quick blurb about how the activities affected their understanding on how
lines in the real-world work and are portrayed.
Students will also write about their new understanding of the transformations that affect slope
intercept form

SAMR Model
Class Task Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition

Note taking Notes taken using Students choose All students use Teachers have
IOS Notes their own notes Notability for all access to all
app notes student’s notes

Research Using Safari to Bookmark and Download and Collaborative

copy and paste share notes using annotate with Mindmaps
information the share button Notability

Presentation Make a keynote Demonstrate Combine audio, Nearpod

presentation on the understanding with video, and text in Presentation
iPad Explain Movie
Everything Presentation

File sharing Sent by email every Shared Dropbox Showbie iTunes U

lesson folder

Reading Open PDF from Use dictionary and Annotating Interactive iBooks
email search document documents in
Notability and
iBooks

Assessment Google form test Google form test Creative projects Creative
with automatic with Strip assignments with
marking script Designer, Showme, audio feedback in
and iMovie Showbie

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How did you use the SAMR model to enhance this activity? (write a short paragraph)
It is not always easy to connect math learning to the real world. Therefore, I used the SAMR model
to enhance this activity by focusing on visual learning with technology. The Desmos activities also
allows me to track all student progress which can also be archived for future reference. It is usually
difficult to show the transformations of graphs in a lesson. By incorporating these new activities, I
am able to adapt and modify different forms of math to students with challenges in math. I can also
post the link to the activities into a class forum, where the ownership of learning goes back on them
(my district uses teams).

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