Feedback from staff meeting on Wed 26 November 2014

Dear colleagues,

Uncle SAMR says...

Thank you for your participation in yesterday's PD meeting. I am happy that we have taken another collective step on the Long Road to 1 to 1. When the MS students begin to bring laptops to every class in August 2015, I hope we will feel ready to meet the challenge and to recognise that that day is not a Big Bang where afterwards nothing is ever the same again, but rather we are taking another step on a journey. 

As I emphasised at the meeting:
SAMR is for expert teachers, not expert technologists.

Here is the slideshow from the meeting.

The feedback of SAMR examples from subject departments was very thoughtful and enlightening. Each subject group contributed some great ideas of how SAMR is already implemented in their classrooms and how they plan to widen it.

If you are looking for more ideas about how SAMR can be applied, here is the gallery of examples from around the world which also contains some great work by ISL teachers. I shall frequently be refining this as a reference and celebration of SAMR at ISL.

My desire to learn more about SAMR (70 total responses)

Your paper feedback was very interesting. As you can see  from the bar chart, 80% of staff rated at 4 or above their desire to know more.

A small sample of your comments:

• "Agree with S, A and possibly M, but is R necessarily a constructive idea??"
• "I like the sound of it in principle because it's Bloom's taxonomy applied to technology."
• "There appears to be a lot of fear around!"
• "I want time to work on developing a lesson/ unit for a particular class not a large group meeting."

The comments will guide the development of the PD programme.
Here is a link to the full report including everyone's comments.

Once more, I am very grateful for your active contribution to 1 to 1 at ISL.

If you are feeling it is time to SAMR, please let me know; I am keen to help you.

Steve