EDU 210 Midterm 2 Exam Questions
and Answers
What does the SAMR model stand for? - Answer- Substitution, Augmentation,
Modification, Redefinition
What is the substitution level of the SAMR model - Answer- Technology acts as a direct
substitute for a traditional tool with no functional change
Ex: typing an essay on google docs instead of handwriting
What is the augmentation level of the SAMR model - Answer- - Technology stills
substitutes but adds functional improvement
- slightly improves efficiency or quality but doesn't change the task itself
Ex: using spell check, comments or voice typing in google docs
What is the modification level of the SAMR model - Answer- - technology allows for
significant task redesign
- the task changes
Ex: students collaboratively edit a shared google doc in real time and give peer
feedback
What is the redefinition level of the SAMR model - Answer- - technology enables
entirely new task that weren't possible before
- the learning experience is transformed
Ex: student create a multimedia project with video, audio, and links, then share it
globally for real-world feedback
What do the S & A levels have in common - Answer- Enhancement
What do the M & R levels have in common - Answer- Transformation
Ethical questions for teachers using a existential ethics approach - Answer- What
human capacities does this technology enhance or amplify?
What aspects of human being does it diminish or reduce?
What sort of beings are we when using this technology? "Who-what" will we become?
Ethical actions for teachers using a existential ethics approach - Answer- - choosing
technologies with the well-being, developmental needs and resilience of learners'
extended ecosystems in mind
, - striving to provide a diverse and inclusive media ecology in one's classroom
- practicing an ongoing attentiveness to shifts in ways of know that a technology
convenes and mediates
Media ecology - Answer- Thee study of media (or human-made artifacts/technologies)
as environments
Why can't technology be neutral - Answer- Because it has an inherent bias based on
the properties of its materials and methods
What do media ecologists aim to discern about a technology's "biases" - Answer- It's
effects and unanticipated side-effects
What should a teacher taking a media ecologists approach ask? - Answer- - what
learner capacities are amplified, extended, or enhanced when using this technology?
- what capacities are reduced, diminish, inhibited, or lost?
- how can any undesirable side-effects of using this technology be mitigated or
counterbalanced?
In the media ecology prereading what was gained, enhanced, or amplified when the
reading was translated into a podcast - Answer- More engaging
In the media ecology pre reading what as lost, diminished, or reduced in the translation?
- Answer- - over simplification
- learner can't go at their own pace
In the media ecology pre reading what is a possible counter-balance? - Answer- - using
both the notebook and the podcast
- be aware of the lost information
Marshall McLuhan - Answer- - all media works over us completely
- medium is the message
- he believed that technology and media shapes how we think, learn and interact
- developed 4 laws of media
Media is an extension of the human (McLuhan) - Answer- - technology is an extension
of human body
- extends human nervous system
Media is altered by the environment (McLuhan) - Answer- - extension of someone that
alters the way we think and act
- the way we perceive the world
- technology medicates between us and the environment
McLuhans laws of media - Answer- Marshall and Eric McLuhan propose that all
technologies have four basic effects in common
and Answers
What does the SAMR model stand for? - Answer- Substitution, Augmentation,
Modification, Redefinition
What is the substitution level of the SAMR model - Answer- Technology acts as a direct
substitute for a traditional tool with no functional change
Ex: typing an essay on google docs instead of handwriting
What is the augmentation level of the SAMR model - Answer- - Technology stills
substitutes but adds functional improvement
- slightly improves efficiency or quality but doesn't change the task itself
Ex: using spell check, comments or voice typing in google docs
What is the modification level of the SAMR model - Answer- - technology allows for
significant task redesign
- the task changes
Ex: students collaboratively edit a shared google doc in real time and give peer
feedback
What is the redefinition level of the SAMR model - Answer- - technology enables
entirely new task that weren't possible before
- the learning experience is transformed
Ex: student create a multimedia project with video, audio, and links, then share it
globally for real-world feedback
What do the S & A levels have in common - Answer- Enhancement
What do the M & R levels have in common - Answer- Transformation
Ethical questions for teachers using a existential ethics approach - Answer- What
human capacities does this technology enhance or amplify?
What aspects of human being does it diminish or reduce?
What sort of beings are we when using this technology? "Who-what" will we become?
Ethical actions for teachers using a existential ethics approach - Answer- - choosing
technologies with the well-being, developmental needs and resilience of learners'
extended ecosystems in mind
, - striving to provide a diverse and inclusive media ecology in one's classroom
- practicing an ongoing attentiveness to shifts in ways of know that a technology
convenes and mediates
Media ecology - Answer- Thee study of media (or human-made artifacts/technologies)
as environments
Why can't technology be neutral - Answer- Because it has an inherent bias based on
the properties of its materials and methods
What do media ecologists aim to discern about a technology's "biases" - Answer- It's
effects and unanticipated side-effects
What should a teacher taking a media ecologists approach ask? - Answer- - what
learner capacities are amplified, extended, or enhanced when using this technology?
- what capacities are reduced, diminish, inhibited, or lost?
- how can any undesirable side-effects of using this technology be mitigated or
counterbalanced?
In the media ecology prereading what was gained, enhanced, or amplified when the
reading was translated into a podcast - Answer- More engaging
In the media ecology pre reading what as lost, diminished, or reduced in the translation?
- Answer- - over simplification
- learner can't go at their own pace
In the media ecology pre reading what is a possible counter-balance? - Answer- - using
both the notebook and the podcast
- be aware of the lost information
Marshall McLuhan - Answer- - all media works over us completely
- medium is the message
- he believed that technology and media shapes how we think, learn and interact
- developed 4 laws of media
Media is an extension of the human (McLuhan) - Answer- - technology is an extension
of human body
- extends human nervous system
Media is altered by the environment (McLuhan) - Answer- - extension of someone that
alters the way we think and act
- the way we perceive the world
- technology medicates between us and the environment
McLuhans laws of media - Answer- Marshall and Eric McLuhan propose that all
technologies have four basic effects in common
