Sam Kary - Engaging Learning with TPACK, SAMR, and EdTech

Sam Kary of The New EdTech Classroom YouTube Channel and blog
joins me to talk about ways to develop engaging instruction, the
TPACK and SAMR technology integration models, Actively Learn,
Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, and more!


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 Today’s Guest:
Sam Kary


Sam is the founder of The New EdTech Classroom, a YouTube
channel dedicated to showing teachers how to teach with
technology. Sam believes strategic technology integration helps
teachers create interactive, personalized, authentic learning
experience as well as ensures students develop the skills they’ll
need for the future job market. 

Website: newedtechclassroom.com

YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/newedtechclassroom

Twitter: @newedtechclass

Email: newedtechclassroom@gmail.com



 2 Truths & 1 Lie


Checkout this video about one of Sam’s Clues!
youtu.be/ofnI9aLovAE



Educational Duct Tape Question: 
How can I develop engaging instruction?


One of the most important questions educators can ask.

Engagement is the “Skeleton key” that can unlock academic
success

Classroom engagement has stumped educators for years and led
to pervasive myths about what engagement looks like.

Superhero teacher myth - We don’t have to have these
captivating personalities. However, passion and excitement for a
topic/learning can be conveyed.

Remote Learning - A national anxiety about student
engagement. “Students are not… logging in, completing
assignments, sharing online, turning on cameras, etc.”

How can we use this moment of disruption and chaos to try and
apply some innovative thinking to recreate schools/classrooms to
ignite a passion of learning and truly engage students in
relevant learning?

TPACK & SAMR - Frameworks for Technology Integration

TPACK Model - (Technological Pedagogical Content
Knowledge) tpack.org

SAMR Model - (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification,
Redefinition) -
edutopia.org/article/powerful-model-understanding-good-tech-integration



Active learning - Students learn best when they get to
interact at all times in the lesson. This leads to interactive
content!

Actively Learn - archive of text-based resources - articles,
subject, grade, lexile

Free and Paid options

From Sam’s New EdTech Classroom - Actively Learn Tutorial
for Teachers (youtu.be/lj154A6QJk8)

Think EdPuzzle but for articles

Fully Dynamic Text with accessibility baked into the
articles

Upload your own content - turn an existing webpage, PDF,
or video into interactive content.

Insert Multiple-choice, open-ended, poll...

Rubrics, align to DOK, align to standards



Whiteboard.chat vs. Whiteboard.fi 

Seeing all students’ work at once is huge


Whiteboard.chat - completely free, has
every feature which makes it overwhelming

From Sam’s New EdTech Classroom - Top Tech Tools for
Teacher in 2021 (youtu.be/C7etwbRgqsg?t=214)




Whiteboard.fi - interface is more
user-friendly, freemium

From Sam’s New EdTech Classroom - How to Use
Whiteboard.fi: Free Digital Whiteboard
(youtu.be/c2Kq9M_G8Vc)





Other ways to ensure student engagement from Sam:

Personalized instruction - ST Math, Prodigy

UDL Tools for differentiation

Authentic Assessments of Knowledge ie use the 4 C’s,
(think Critically, Create, Communication, Collaboration)
create vs consume, digital portfolios

Gamification - Is not just about games, it is about
tracking progress and building upon something you’ve
accomplished in the past. It motivates everybody!

Variety - We should be exposing students to lots of
different tools and programs. That’s what authentically build
skills and foundation technology skills and prepare students
to be fluidly navigating digital spaces.

“Students need to be technologically ambidextrous”





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