While attending Dr. Ruben Puentedura's session at the 21CL Learning Conference in HK (December 2014), I found myself in a group of teachers from very varied backgrounds and levels within a school.
In order to produce a product we might all use in the future, I suggested we look at a skills based SAMR Ladder as opposed to a curriculum specific one; Digital Literacies is what we came up with.
Wednesday 17 December 2014
Tuesday 16 December 2014
SAMR
On the 11-13th of December, I attended the 21CL Learning Conference in Hong Kong. I had the pleasure of meeting, and chatting with, Dr. Ruben Puentedura who is responsible for the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) model.
Ruben's slides: SAMR - Thoughts for Design | SAMR - Getting to Transformation
Ruben's slides: SAMR - Thoughts for Design | SAMR - Getting to Transformation
Ruben's ability to apply the model to any scenario he was asked about, from pre-school upwards, was awesome.
Question Ladder to develop SAMR tasks:
Substitution:
• What will I gain by replacing the older technology with the new technology?
Substitution to Augmentation:
• Have I added an improvement to the task process that could not be
accomplished with the older technology at a fundamental level?
• How does this feature contribute to my design?
Augmentation to Modification:
• How is the original task being modified?
• Does this modification fundamentally depend upon the new technology?
• How does this modification contribute to my design?
Modification to Redefinition:
• What is the new task?
• Will any portion of the original task be retained?
• How is the new task uniquely made possible by the new technology?
• How does it contribute to my design?
Sunday 14 December 2014
Tuesday 2 December 2014
Networking
The CISCO ICDN 1+2 book is very good, if only 3 inches thick!
The networking course follows this book closely and supports it with links to videos on YouTube. I enjoyed working through the binary and hexadecimal transformations, and designing the networks.
While the only evidence of this process is the answers to the questions/labs submitted to the course, I have been able to use my new knowledge in school. While trying to do a Google Hangout into school with a colleague and our shared class (I was off campus), we discovered that I could see and hear everything that was going on in the class but they could neither see nor hear me.
After presenting this issue to out school IT helpdesk and suggesting that they trace the packets and ports, the IT team found that both Skype an Google Hangouts were using the same port as the various torrenting sites that the school blocks--they block the port! The "Network Guy" was able to alter the network permissions to all permit the use of the communication apps that we wanted to use.
The networking course follows this book closely and supports it with links to videos on YouTube. I enjoyed working through the binary and hexadecimal transformations, and designing the networks.
While the only evidence of this process is the answers to the questions/labs submitted to the course, I have been able to use my new knowledge in school. While trying to do a Google Hangout into school with a colleague and our shared class (I was off campus), we discovered that I could see and hear everything that was going on in the class but they could neither see nor hear me.
After presenting this issue to out school IT helpdesk and suggesting that they trace the packets and ports, the IT team found that both Skype an Google Hangouts were using the same port as the various torrenting sites that the school blocks--they block the port! The "Network Guy" was able to alter the network permissions to all permit the use of the communication apps that we wanted to use.
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