Sophia Hadeed

Professor Davola
ELED 104A/ 258
9 April 2019

SAMR/ ISTE Paper

I’d just like to start this off by saying that I’m not an education major so I’m
not sure my answers are entirely what you’re looking for, but I’m going to try my
best. My personal technology goals are relatively simple; I would like to become
more confident with understanding all that my computer really has to offer. By this I
mean that I am competent with technology, but not more than your average
millennial. I would very much like to learn to utilize my technology to the best of its
ability, and the more I learn, the more I realize how much more I have to learn. I
read somewhere that the average person utilizes less than 30% of the features that
their computer actually posses and it genuinely bothered me. I want to learn more
about what my computer can actually do and how to use it to its full capacity.
Another goal of mine coming into this class was to learn how to make a website,
after last weeks assignment I would say we’re off to a pretty good start of
accomplishing that one. In order to answer question two I’m going to pretend that I
wanted to be a teacher (bear with me.) First and foremost, the Learner Standard
would be a must in my classroom. I have always believed that our knowledge was
our greatest skill because it’s something that no one can take away from us. That
being said, I believe it’s of vital importance to continually strive to learn, improve,
and build on the skills you currently have in order to expand on them and gain
more. By learning from and with others, it gives us the opportunity to explore other
practices and in turn help others learn as well. As a teacher it’s your job to teach, but
it’s different when you use that knowledge to actually improve a students capacity
to learn, to really use your skills to help them build theirs. I think there are too many
teachers out think that their way is the only way, but the teachers who really make a
difference in a kids life are the ones who are continually trying to better themselves
for the sake of their students, the ones who actually support, encourage, and
empower them. That’s the kind of teacher I would want to be, the kind who
encourages my kids to be leaders, to constantly evolve and learn new things. So
yeah, the Learner and Leader would be the two standards I would focus on the most.
I would stress the importance of my students understanding the ISTE Standards for
Students because they have grown up in a digital era. In a way I have too, but not
nearly to the degree that they did. The power that technology holds today comes
with a responsibility to use it properly. Once you post something it never goes away
and I think that’s something that kids don’t take seriously enough. That being said,
it’s vital that they recognize the immense opportunities that they have because of
their exposure and use it in the safest way possible. I would encourage them to
develop a competency with technology so that they are able to use it as a resource to
expand their knowledge in a meaningful way, and by meaningful I don’t mean
spending two hours scrolling through Twitter. The varieties of technologies that
they have available to them allow them to identify problems and make an attempt to
solve them, to create solutions and ideas, I would highly encourage them to utilize
technology to make a positive impact, not only on themselves, but on others as well.
The global world is unbelievably interconnectedness; we have the power to access
just about anything within seconds, that’s a kind of power that the world had never
seen before. We have the power to collaborate with someone sitting two rooms
away or on the other side of the world. I would encourage them to leverage that
power to develop their own social platforms and network. I would want them to
educate themselves and collaborate with people outside of their own environment.
By enriching our knowledge both locally and globally we are able to gain a variety of
perspective of the world, which directly influences our thought process and our
behaviours, in turn influencing the kind of person we become. I would want my
students to utilize technology to expand their knowledge of the world, but also to
take that knowledge and use it to grow as a person. The SAMR Model supports and
enables teachers to design, develop as well as infuse digital learning for the purpose
of helping their students achieve more. You used substitution and redefinition in our
assignment last week. You provided instructions as well as a demonstration as to
how to create a Weebly (substitution) and then gave us the tools we needed in order
to redefine the baseline provided and personalize our sites based on our own
structural ideas. We’re still redefining the previous task by continually uploading
our future assignments onto the original platform. We’re expanding not only on our
knowledge through future assignments, but by continually learning about and
updating the Weebly itself, aka the creation of a new task.

If I’m being honest I struggled to write this because I’m not an education major and
it was tricky for me to try and think like one.. please go easy on me, it’s been a rough
semester.