Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

If a student doesn’t like a project, let them come up with their own –as long as it satisfies the goals of the exercise. In fact, any chance you have, differentiate instruction. Let them know you respect their cerebral skills and have faith they will find a solution. Be flexible, open-minded, and adventurous.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. Some schools restrict AI for creative writing, critical thinking exercises, and certain assessments to ensure students develop their own ideas–an idea that coaches recommend.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

On a short written exercise students had no preference between the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard. They need one-to-one technology and a personalized, interactive curriculum that extends educator capacity to differentiate instruction and provide timely feedback. The purpose of Blueprint 2.0

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This team-building exercise gave them the chance to have fun together and strengthen their relationships across the school. Groups can be based on interest or ability to differentiate instruction. As a coach, Heather also helped staff members collaborate on a Dash and Dot robot project to build interactive towns.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Teachers may want to pull individual students or small groups for personalized or differentiated instruction and support. Step 3: Teacher Focus – Decide how you will use this time as students self-pace through the choice board. Can you provide an example of a math game that involves multiplication or division?

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

At the same time, those who need extra support could work on additional practice exercises with teacher support in small groups to reinforce their understanding. In a secondary history class, teachers can differentiate the experiences of conducting research to accommodate diverse learning needs and interests.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

While initially, it’s beneficial to have a clear roadmap to follow when implementing a new curriculum; as teachers gain confidence using it, they will desire to exercise their creativity to tailor the learning experience to the unique needs of their students. A similar truth applies to the adopted curriculum many teachers use.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

With hundreds of instructional videos and thousands of practice exercises integrated into a personalized-learning dashboard, Khan Academy helps teachers of almost any subject bring online learning into their classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy. I stepped up my game by adding even more videos and assessment exercises to my class website, mining resources from IXL and CK-12. Full size image here.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2014

I often post assignments for either in-class exercises or vacation homework. Using a blog hits many important curriculum areas, such as differentiating instruction as well as meeting many Common Core Standards (see here & here for examples). These posts are both technical in nature as well as writing focused.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This simplification is especially beneficial for complex topics or when differentiating instruction for diverse learner needs. For students, AI can provide resources, such as tailored reading materials, guided note templates, word banks, and practice exercises, which align with their individual learning needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

I’ve learned that I need to know my students academically and personally so I can modify instruction to be as effective, engaging and rigorous as possible, so every year I craft personal learner profiles for my students that go beyond their IEP goals and basic personality surveys. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and B.F.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Differentiated instruction is the ability to respond to variance within students, providing different students with different opportunities for learning. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In these Google Sheets practice exercises, learners select a question from a drop-down menu and then type their answer into a box. You can also share it with a single learner, a group or the entire class for differentiated instruction. The activity will let them know right away whether their answer is correct or not.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 19, 2020

The term personalization and individualization are often used synonymously for differentiating instruction. For many educators, this conversation may seem like an exercise in semantics. What is the difference between personalized learning and individualized learning?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Each Flinn-developed lab is available in four versions — open-ended, guided, shortened, and advanced — to allow teachers to differentiate instruction for diverse classroom needs. Claim-evidence reasoning exercises that support student understanding of phenomena over time.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2018

With hundreds of instructional videos and thousands of practice exercises integrated into a personalized-learning dashboard, Khan Academy helps teachers of almost any subject bring online learning into their classroom.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For teachers, these activities might include lesson planning, designing an active learning exercise for use in class, differentiating instruction, revising or remixing OER, and drafting feedback on student work. Can I trust its responses to be accurate?

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. You can use these digital textbooks in your lessons and units or throughout the school year.

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Final thoughts I knew Bloom''s Taxonomy fairly well before this, but after this exercise with my third graders, I was pushed beyond what I possibly would have ever known because together we had to decide if some questions were really at a different level than where we first put them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We often begin design work with The Marshmallow Challenge , a collaborative exercise in which teams build a tower with the unlikely pairing of spaghetti and a marshmallow. we seek to differentiate instruction to provide scaffolding for all of our 21st century learners”). When can we “put a marshmallow on it” and move on?

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 11, 2014

Teachers are using this to differentiate instruction and assess learning in real-time as they push out their lessons on to student''s iPads and gauge their learning. W/ tons of templates to choose from (i.e Math, Geography, etc.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

We often begin design work with The Marshmallow Challenge , a collaborative exercise in which teams build a tower with the unlikely pairing of spaghetti and a marshmallow. we seek to differentiate instruction to provide scaffolding for all of our 21st century learners”). When can we “put a marshmallow on it” and move on?

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techlearning

APRIL 16, 2018

This is ideal for assessing students and differentiating instruction. Programmr - A nice way to learn programming by solving coding exercises. Codemoji - An innovative new site that lets students learn how to code through the use of emojis as well as track student progress through the educational dashboard.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns. I think we’ve learned how to more individualize and differentiate instruction,” says Dr. Joel in Nebraska. “I Some learners thrive online , but sustaining the progress of all students has demanded flexibility from educators. “I

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Teachers are using this to differentiate instruction and assess learning in real-time as they push out their lessons on to student''s iPads and gauge their learning. W/ tons of templates to choose from (i.e Math, Geography, etc.)

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Also, there are 5 different types of exercises (i.e. Best of all, the educational portal allows teachers to track and monitor student progress making it easy to differentiate instruction. matching, dictation, etc.) to help a student learn a word. I highly recommend checking out WordsTool by clicking here !!!

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

One prevalent technique is differentiated instruction, tailoring lesson plans to accommodate various learning styles and abilities within a classroom. Textbooks offer comprehensive coverage of subjects, accompanied by exercises, examples, and supplementary materials to reinforce learning objectives.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Differentiated instruction is the ability to respond to variance within students, providing different students with different opportunities for learning. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 21, 2021

Many of these tools also offer follow-up exercises and activities that target students' specific areas of need. Then follow up with differentiated instructional activities. Assess Where Your Students Are These tools will help you get a sense of where students are, and which skills they still need to develop.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It can assist in practicing vocabulary, sentence construction, grammar rules, or even engage in conversational exercises. Differentiation techniques: Real-world examples: Ask Chat GPT for ideas on adapting a lesson for students with visual impairments. Seek strategies to differentiate instruction for gifted and talented students.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 24, 2020

Also, there are 5 different types of exercises (i.e. Best of all, the educational portal allows teachers to track and monitor student progress making it easy to differentiate instruction. matching, dictation, etc.) to help a student learn a word. I highly recommend checking out WordsTool by clicking here !!!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. Beyond a library of PowerPoint slides, my mathematics curriculum evolved into a patchwork of in-house and free online resources following a scope and sequence specifically tailored to meet my students’ needs.

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The teachers were masters at differentiated instruction with technology. The kids on the laptops got to choose what their learning exercise. Every teacher mastered differentiating instruction with technology. 21st Century Learning differentiated instruction ed reform PBL'

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 22, 2020

There’s a very small chance that you’re going to be able to pull off high-quality, rigorous, differentiated instruction right now. Encourage your students to think about all of their needs: eating well, sleeping, playing, relaxing, exercising. This could be our opportunity to finally get it right for kids.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 14, 2015

formative is a new site for giving students quizzes/exercises and assessing them in real-time, that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a great way for educators to assess students and differentiate instruction. ClassDojo). I highly recommend checking out formative by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 9, 2020

Khan Academy - A very popular resource for online learning where the user learns at their own pace through interactive exercises and videos. Parlay - An innovative tool that educators are using to take classroom "discussions" to the next level by blending learning and differentiating instruction.

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