Whoosh! After the drama of the internet last week, I think that this week's class went very well! We started the class with discussing in their groups from the TPACK activity last week what their favorite and least favorite activities were from the wiki. They had to defend their choices from their point of view and then as a team, decide what activity best exemplified TPACK. In this case, it was the activities that were also in the top half of how they had rated the sites within their role. The conversations that occurred afterwards were great! Some groups actually identified the same best activity as another groups least. It was a content heavy activity and a good conversation between the students. Turns out there were some elementary/secondary beliefs that we needed to sort out!
From there, I moved the conversation to SAMR. I believe that SAMR applies to when teachers are within the TPACK sweet spot. At school, I use SAMR instead of TPACK because of this. We had a good conversation about the contextual nature of SAMR during class today as well as how SAMR and Blooms taxonomy are intertwined. To finish up, I asked students to pick 3 tools on the SAMR/Blooms wheel and say why they think each tool was placed where it was. I'm hoping that these first two weeks of class help to lay the groundwork and theoretical ideas for them to base their work off of the rest of the semester!
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