LMS and SAMR and productivity

I shared the diagram below at our recent ITEM tech conference. It attempted to illustrate how we want to "grow" the use of our Learning Management System, Schoology, using the SAMR model as a guide. It was the core educational application to be enabled by our proposed 1:1 project next year. 

I was very proud of this work.

I was proud anyway until one very bright participant asked, "But isn't this all about using technology simply as a way to consume information rather than to produce it?"

Huh? What had I been thinking!

She had pointed out a blind spot in my vision of this plan - I had indeed only looked at the 1:1 project as a better way for kids to learn quite traditionally - by gaining information and knowledge, not making it. Shortsightedness I have often criticized in others.

So what might this diagram look like if we look at it from a productivity/communications lens?

I am sure this needs a good deal of work, but it is a start. And a visual reminder to me that education is about producing, not just acquiring information.

I often wonder who learns the most at conference sessions I give - the participants ... or me.

Comments

[Michael Adkins]

I agree with your concepts. We get lost in using technology as a teaching tool and not what it was intended, an interactive, collaborative experience for the students. Providing students with peer to peer teaching / learning experiences help retention and unencumbered opportunity for idea exchange.

[Doug Johnson]

Thanks, Michael,

A third slide needed for collaboration?

Doug