SAMR is a model designed to help educators evaluate their level of technology integration. The SAMR model is constructed as a ladder with two levels at the top of the ladder and two levels at the bottom. The top levels are ones that transform and the bottom levels are ones that enhance. Teachers essentially began at the bottom and work their way up. When a teacher begins "teaching about the line" they are transforming the students methods of learning. The teacher must ask herself if the technology is a form of Substitution? Augmentation? Modification? Or Redefinition? 1. Substitution: no functional change 2. Augmentation: some functional improvement teach above the line 3. Modification: significant task redesign 4. Redefinition: creation of new tasks http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SAMR-Model.jpg In my current classroom, I am in the augmentation phase. We do not use a lot of technology in the classroom besides playing a few vid...