Adapting teaching with technology
Many TEA Fellows report being challenged in their work by teaching students with a wide range of skills and abilities. In a session called “Reaching All Learners,” the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) was introduced, and the CAST UDL website was explored to show how modifications and adaptations can be used to teach the same content to learners with different levels of ability.
UDL links:
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.html
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/udl/chalcycle.htm
The Learning Toolbox (http://coe.jmu.edu/Learningtoolbox/) was used to illustrate metacognitive strategies to embed in lessons to support learner organization, study, and thinking skills.
Adaptive technology was introduced in the workshop to show how technology can be used to adapt teaching for learners with special needs and varying skill levels. Some technology demonstrated included portable note-takers—the NEO 2 and the Dana (http://www.renlearn.com/success/neo2.aspx; and the Echo Smart Pen: http://www.edlivescribe.com.
The workshop also included a demonstration of the One Laptop/One Child computer including where to locate information about grant-writing: One Child One Laptop Project http://one.laptop.org/
UDL links:
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.html
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/udl/chalcycle.htm
The Learning Toolbox (http://coe.jmu.edu/Learningtoolbox/) was used to illustrate metacognitive strategies to embed in lessons to support learner organization, study, and thinking skills.
Adaptive technology was introduced in the workshop to show how technology can be used to adapt teaching for learners with special needs and varying skill levels. Some technology demonstrated included portable note-takers—the NEO 2 and the Dana (http://www.renlearn.com/success/neo2.aspx; and the Echo Smart Pen: http://www.edlivescribe.com.
The workshop also included a demonstration of the One Laptop/One Child computer including where to locate information about grant-writing: One Child One Laptop Project http://one.laptop.org/
Moocs, OERs and Web 2.0
Based on work Marshall Jones did in the Philippines with IREX, the Fellows were introduced to free educational resources in Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and free educational materials in the form of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and free software tools through the idea of Web 2.0.
What they really seemed to resonate with were Open Educational Resources, (OERs). We worked off of the site I built for the Manila workshop: http://oertools.weebly.com). Many Fellows commented in their final evaluation that we could have done the entire workshop using this one website.
What they really seemed to resonate with were Open Educational Resources, (OERs). We worked off of the site I built for the Manila workshop: http://oertools.weebly.com). Many Fellows commented in their final evaluation that we could have done the entire workshop using this one website.