Week 5 Essential
Question: What are your overall take-aways from the methods/tools that you
might use to differentiate the classroom environment (for teacher productivity
and student progression)? Which of these may you use in your classroom in the
future?
I have come to understand that differentiating the classroom
environment with technology tools will take some time and struggle, but that
after the first hurdle of that overwhelming feeling is overcome, that it all
will become easier. There are many
people who struggle with change and an unwillingness to take the precious time
to learn about new tools and buzzwords.
I now have a bag more full of tools to use to differentiate instruction
and provide feedback. Any content area,
learning style, and level of learning can be addressed with the many technology
tools that we have learned about.
When dealing with differentiated instruction, the tools like
Diigo, wikispaces, Dropbox, blogs, evernote, and eportfolios make it possible
to offer multiple approaches to meeting learners’ needs. Modifications of instruction can be
made to make an assignment fit to address the different levels of learning in
our classrooms. Technology blended
with curricular content may make it more interesting. What I need to remember and keep reminding myself is that I
cannot lose site of the importance of continuous feedback while implementing
some of the online tools. It would
probably be a good idea to build surveys for feedback into the assignments.
I have found some interesting paths that I may take away
from what I have learned. Not only
with this class, but in conjunction with the Digital Storytelling class by
Jason Ohler. I think I would start
out simple and have students create an eportfolio and use it to add their
assignments to. This way they
would have a great end product to look back and be proud of. The assignment would probably be to
create a digital story about an autobiography timeline and then build into
using digital stories to explain math concepts. Not sure, but this seems like the way I would go.
The diigo link for references for assignments 2-5 are found
at:
Our group’s wiki that we created can be found at:
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