Concrete SAMR Examples
4th grade
4th Grade SMORE Description
Considerations
- How much have the iPads already been in use in the students' everyday processes?
- What apps are the students already familiar with?
- Don't recreate the wheel. If the iPads have been used quite a bit, often just tweaking what you are doing will help you raise the level of SAMR.
- Take the jump! Try something new! Your students will rise to the occasion with your support!
SAMR in 2 minutes
3 Concrete Examples Used By USD 443 4th Grade Teachers
- Blogging- Set up a class account with Kidblog. Students can reflect on their learning and respond to their peers' posts as well. Not sure how to get your students to reply to eachother's posts? Try sentence starters found here!
- Google Docs- Students could share their writing with another student and peer edit virtually using the comment feature. Here is a great resource to share with your kids on how to Peer Edit
- Showbie- Have students complete Math Exit Tickets with another app.
Save the Exit ticket to Showbie
- Open the Share Button in iTunes U
- Choose the correct assignment to add the exit ticket to
Add a comment for assignment directions
In Showbie, you will find the exit ticket you added in the Shared Folder. There are options to add a comment to provide more directions. I have done this here. Depending on how in depth the student decides to take the task, they could be working at the modification or redefinition level.
Provide Specific Feedback with a Voice Note
Here I provided feedback on my student's work. I was able to do this at my convenience and had no papers to send back and forth to each other. This feature is nice to help you identify a student's misconception they may have on a skill and clear it up right away!
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