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Chapter 6 • Small Changes and the SAMR Model

Figure 6.2 Shakespeare digital book from The New Book
Press. Image courtesy of Alexander Parkerand.

The latest-generation digital texts (not the glorified PDFs I mentioned earlier)
even have interactive components built into the book itself to check for
understanding. A recent example we’ve had some success with is the series of
Shakespeare books produced by The New Book Press (see Figure 6.2). In this
series of books, students can not only read the text on half the pages, but also
watch it acted out by professional actors on the other half of the page. There
are also ways to interact with the text and pull up references to certain words
used by the Bard throughout his series of classics. Talk about the ultimate
context experience!

2. Note-Taking and Reflection
Another great way to introduce mobile devices into your classroom is to have
students use them as a tool for taking notes and reflecting on their learning.
While note-taking can be done with pencil and paper, there are some limits to
those notes without technology. However, we’ve seen examples where students
(and adults) prefer to write and take notes on paper, and in some cases that
may actually be better for retention, as suggested by this 2014 article from
Scientific American magazine: mrhook.it/notes.

Of course, the downside of this method is that when the notes aren’t digital,
they can be lost quickly. Since most devices come with a camera attached,

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