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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2019/05/how_tech_tools_can_engage_foreign_language_students.html

How Tech Tools Can Engage Foreign Language Students
by Adam Ross
May 7, 2019

Tech-savvy foreign-language educators and coaches are often surprised to hear how many colleagues are hesitant to use tech tools in their foreign-language teaching. Teachers lament that they don't have experience using these tools, worry that things may go wrong, or that they do not really know where to begin. 

...To assist with this goal, there is a model to help those feeling 'tech unsavvy' to not only get started but also to be smart about it, or 'SAMRT,' if you will. We will use the SAMR model, which was created by Dr. Ruben Puentedura to help teachers evaluate how well they are incorporating technology into students' learning activities. SAMR stands for 'Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition,' and these four stages of using tech tools can be seen as gradual steps moving toward more robust and transformative uses of tech. 

Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2019/05/how_tech_tools_can_engage_foreign_language_students.html