In my classroom, Web 2.0 is "a second generation of the World Wide Web that remains focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online." I use Web 2.0 for different applications to find different avenues to promote digital citizenship and literacy to create creativity, engage in curiosity, and improve learning outcomes with different applications. In a classroom setting, web 2.0. offers an excellent benefit for new potential learning where students can become more mobile, and teachers can provide a more cloud-based application and apps to enhance learning opportunities.
Within my classroom, we utilize a variety of cloud base apps where students can interact and build on one another's ideas. However, it allows them to analyze and put specific content standards in perspective, allowing them to make personal connections and see the bigger picture. An example is Nearpod, Edpuzzle, Cpalms, and Canvas discussion boards. Students interact by communicating and collaborating to reach a rational answer or conclusion regarding a particular question when using Web 2.0 features.
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Important Classroom Link
What Is Differentiated Instruction and Why Is It Important?
Differentiated instruction is the process of tailoring lessons to meet each student’s individual interests, needs, and strengths. Teaching this way gives students choice and flexibility in how they learn, and helps teachers personalize learning. This method also requires instructional clarity and clearly defined goals for learning, better enabling students to meet those goals.
What Are Some Differentiated Instruction Strategies?
You can differentiate instruction across four main areas: content, process, product, and environment.
To differentiate content, teachers consider the objective of a lesson, then provide students with flexible options about the content they study to meet the objective, from subject or topic to approach or presentation.
With process differentiation, teachers differentiate how students learn. Grouping students based on their individual readiness or to complement each other is one way to accomplish process differentiation. Another is varying the way concepts are taught: through visual, auditory, or kinesthetic lessons, for example.
Product differentiation applies to the types of assignments students create. A teacher might ask students to explain a concept; the product could be a written report, a story, a song, a speech, or an art project. Varying the types of assessments you give students is also an example of product differentiation.
The classroom environment also affects learning. Changing physical things in the classroom, like how desks are set up or arranged, or where students can sit (on beanbags, for example), serves as classroom environment differentiation, which can also include changes to routines and habits.
Self paced
vs
Live instructor
Learning Management Systems applied in my classroom breakdown into two types of delivering when students learn self-paced courses and the more traditional live instructor-led sessions.
Instructor-led learning is the kind of delivery you'd expect to see in a classroom (physical or virtual), where an expert instructor guides a group of learners through a series of concepts and activities in scheduled, face-to-face / screen-to-screen meetings or workshops.
With self-paced learning, learners work independently through a course of pre-built learning activities (articles to read, recorded presentations to watch, exercises to complete, etc.), all in their own time and at their own pace, often with little or no input from an instructor.
Instructional Technology
Instructional Technology
Introducing the CPALMS Educator Toolkits
Edpuzzle: What is a Self-paced Classroom and Live Mode
