Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2020

Accounts for online tools like a blog, Twitter, various web-based tools. Risk-taker attitude, inquiry-driven mentality, passion to optimize learning and differentiate instruction. What Do You Need to Participate. Internet connection. Google account (can be your school account or your personal one). Tech networking advice.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 2, 2025

It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods. Learning pathways, differentiated instruction, and MTSS/ RTI practices ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background or learning differences.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

While there are some ways to allow this to happen organically, such as with open-ended projects, differentiation also needs to be purposeful. However, there are many tools that are out there that can be helpful, especially if the teacher and students have access to technology. Pre-tests are quick ways to assess ability levels.

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Hapara

JANUARY 13, 2025

Hpara Teacher Dashboard Another tool highly recommended by educators is Hpara Teacher Dashboard. Hpara’s classroom management and safety tools help students stay focused on learning tasks by minimizing distractions while promoting critical skills. Highlights also allows educators to use groups to differentiate their approach.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

JANUARY 1, 2025

Differentiated instruction is a cornerstone of effective teaching, but it’s also one of the most challenging aspects of our profession. It requires us to tailor our instruction to meet the unique needs of every student in our classroom, which can feel overwhelming, especially with limited time and resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2022

The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. eSpark ’s differentiated Quests are standards-aligned and adaptive to student abilities, reaching every student at their level. This tool helps you reach students at their ability level in both Reading and Math in exciting ways that are student-approved.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. An effective personalized-learning approach successfully threads digital tools into the mix , creating a solid fabric for students heading out into the modern working world. Technology impacts instruction in a positive way, the report states.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2016

You are invited to attend my free live webinar, Differentiating Instruction with Technology. Learn how to build a classroom framework of tech tools so you can reach every child. […]. This is one of my most popular sessions that I share at conferences. Register Now 01 Days 00 Hours 14 Minutes 03 Seconds Webinar is past!

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2023

In a recent article, Canadian researchers identified the greatest challenges to implementing effective differentiated instruction in the classroom. Topping the list were teacher workload , lack of time , the perceived complexity and difficulty of differentiating , and the increasingly diverse needs of individual students 1.

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Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. What is differentiation?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2015

Seamless integration is when students are not only using technology daily,but have access to a variety of tools that match the task at hand Powered By the Tweet This Plugin Tweet This. The post Differentiating Instruction with Technology: A Framework for Success appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These online platforms offer a wide variety of tools to help teachers differentiate instruction in their classrooms

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

My school uses Planboard with Chalk.com ’s curriculum planning tool. This powerful tool links with standards — and gives us the ability to do some timesaving, efficient reporting and tracking. I use a free program called Planboard for my lesson planning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Course: Building Parent Engagement “By the end of this course, you will be equipped with a comprehensive set of tools for engaging and empowering all students’ parents to become active partners in their children’s school success.”

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 3, 2021

Digital tools and software can enhance the teaching and learning experience to the point of replacing face-to-face interaction when needed. Read more: Why teachers should consider differentiated instruction. Read more: How to get started with hybrid teaching. This help comes in the form of edtech.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2024

The ability to group students based on need provided the teacher with the time needed to target and differentiate instruction in a much more manageable and realistic way. Beyond targeted instruction, other stations could include independent work, collaborative tasks, and the use of technology in the form of adaptive tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2019

Record Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019) These three educators co-authored Don’t Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World and talk about research, differentiation tools, and so much more from ISTE19. They share what people were talking about and their observations about what was missing.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It entails individualized education plans (IEPs), differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning (UDL) to meet diverse needs. The 6th-grade math teacher was seen at a large table, where she used adaptive tool data to pull a group of learners for targeted instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Integrate adaptive tools that respond to strengths and weaknesses while providing data that can be used for groupings and shifts to instruction. If possible, differentiate by providing multiple versions that address the specific needs of learners while provided different paths.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 29, 2019

4 Reasons why an LMS is an excellent tool for your language classes. Feeling part of a group is an excellent motivator in language learning, so the integrated collaboration tools are great at engaging all students in informal discussions about language, culture, assignments, projects and portfolios etc.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

How reliable is the data generated by the AI tool? even has a translation tool that is in Beta that can translate your pre-assessment into another language to ensure the math teacher is getting an accurate representation of what every student knows and can do. MagicSchool.ai

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Nights and weekends were spent at the local office store getting transparencies made for the overhead projector, which was the primary technology tool at the time. Differentiated instruction and cooperative learning strategies became embedded in some form during each lesson.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2018

With apps, tools, and knowledge about how they learn, students who have learning differences can empower themselves to learn better and faster. Because they learn differently, they need different tools. The challenges of differentiating instruction. We can enable students to personalize their own learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. Those who embrace it find the opportunity to differentiate instruction. Education has changed. Students have become digital citizens.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Just remember, there are effective ways to not only assess but provide automated and rapid feedback to students so that assessment becomes a teaching tool in itself. The course I recommend for this topic is ePortfolio Tools for the Classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 25, 2024

A SWOT analysis can be a valuable tool for leaders to assess their institution's overall health and identify potential areas for growth. What strategies can differentiate instruction and accommodate diverse learner needs within our system?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Google Forms are really my favorite tech tool,” said Brent Coley, principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School (Calif.), Differentiate Instruction with Homework Feedback Forms. For teachers with large classes, differentiating instruction for each student can be quite difficult, but Google Forms can provide a big assist.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. Even if you cannot attend live, you can sign up to review the links and transcripts later.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Instead of selecting many apps, many are now recommending just a few tools/protocols for how things are taught with edtech. Then, it becomes about the content and not the tools. iPads to Differentiate Instruction in K-2 Classrooms. Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. Listen Now.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Here is where the tool supports or enhances the pedagogical technique to aid in conceptual mastery, construct new knowledge, or demonstrate learning through the creation of a learning artifact. One such method that is rapidly gaining traction is blended learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2022

Finally, AI has come to verbal reading support, and my recommended tool is Readlee. Teachers can look at the individual assignment and (in Readlee Pro) get even more advanced analytics for providing feedback and differentiating instructions. I recommend reading teachers sign up for a free Readlee account today.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. For example, on OER sites, educators can find different lesson plans for the same learning goal to help them differentiate instruction. Differentiation or personalization. para tools help with OER lesson plans?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. Even if you cannot attend live, you can sign up to review the links and transcripts later.

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Neo LMS

JULY 30, 2019

One way to do this is by differentiating instruction, which approaches teaching so as to cater for the different abilities students possess, with the purpose of maximizing their potential and help them reach success, rather than trying to mold them to fit the standards of curriculum. Conclusion.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is a must for them. Differentiated instruction is a must for them. Read more: Top edtech tools for digital differentiation. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design. Every educator knows that no two students are the same.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. Even if you cannot attend live, you can sign up to review the links and transcripts later.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 15, 2021

Educators participate in this five-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop to learn about widely-available digital tools that will help their students develop their inner writer. By the time educators finish this class, they will be ready to implement many new writing tools in their classroom. What You Get. 3 college credits. Office).

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