Let's Meet the Needs of ALL Your Students and Collaborate!!!
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Meet the needs of your Academically Gifted Students!Often, assignments are geared toward the “middle of the road” students. Your unit and assignments must meet the needs of all students. This unit provides freedom of choices from selecting the organism, to choosing the presentation tools, and web tools to collect data. This freedom of choice allows for critical, higher order thinking, and creativity.
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How will you present the assignment so that ALL students have equal access to the requirements?Start by posting the assignment on a blog, webpage, or other presentation tool available online. This will allow all students to have constant access to the requirements even if they lose the assignment paper. Also, for students who struggle to read, use a tool such as voki or voicethread to read the assignment aloud to the student. Your students can return to the assignment page and listen or read the assignment as many times as they need. NO MORE “I lost my paper” or “What was the assignment again?”
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Student Tools!!Voice to text tools for students with reading and writing needs will help them to focus on the tasks such as a field journal, data collection, and research. The focus becomes learning how the organisms and interdependent and not what they wrote or how to spell it.
-Online Dictation -Google Chrome Speech Recognizer Many 2.0 web tools are designed to be user friendly. Many students with disabilities and focusing issues have success at creating and designing using these tools. -Voki -Voicethread -Blabberize -Slideshare And many more |
COLLABORATION!Collaboration is essential for 21st century learners. In the world today, being able to communicate and collaborate is necessary . Students need to work together in collaborative groups and share their findings and ideas. Some online collaboration tools are:
-Google Groups -Glogster Social networking has become an important part not only in personal life, but also in the work force |
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