SAMR: A Contextualized Introduction

Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D.

 Redefinition

Transformation
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks,
previously inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Enhancement

Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with

functional improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no
functional change
Ruben R. Puentedura, As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice. (2009)
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition

Transformation
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks,
previously inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Enhancement

Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with

functional improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no
functional change
Social Mobility Visualization Storytelling Gaming
200,000 70,000 40,000 17,000 8,000
years years years years years

Ruben R. Puentedura, “Technology In Education: The First 200,000 Years” The NMC Perspective Series: Ideas that Matter. NMC Summer Conference, 2012.
Search Sites

• The Basics: • OER Resources:

• Google • OER Commons
• Bing • OpenCourseWare Consortium
• blekko • Crowdsourcing:
• Wikipedia • Delicious
• Subject Directories: • Diigo
• ipl2 • Twitter
• INFOMINE • Quora
• Specialized Focus: • Professional Organizations:
• Google Scholar • Hastac
• Google Books • NCTE
• Media Search: • NCTM
• Flickr • NSTA
• YouTube • NCSS
• Data Search:
• Wolfram Alpha
 categorizing, providing find differences, similarities and
commentary, analyzing create meaning from them

searching, browsing, accessing,

linking, referencing
collecting

Annotating Comparing
Discovering Referring

Scholarly Primitives

selecting according to a criterion,

showing relationships of items
selected to the original set
Sampling Representing changing depiction mode,
publishing

Illustrating

showing an example, highlighting

features within an example

John Unsworth. Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities Researchers Have in Common and How Might Our Tools Reflect This? Humanities Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental Practice Symposium, Kings College, London. (May 2000)
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
 Redefinition
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks, previously
inconceivable

Modification
Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional
improvement

Substitution
Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional
change
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