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  1. Jul 2018
    1. Due to the vast amount of resources available on the Internet, it is critical to develop skills in locating, evaluating, using, and sharing information effectively.

      Make sure it is meaningful and accurate. There are so many websites full of junk.

    2. who the learners are, what is to be learned,how the learning will be assessed, and which strategies and resources will be used to make sure students learn.

      This is ideal when creating a lesson plan. I think that you still have to be flexible and know things might need to change.

    1. Ministry of Education. (2007). Differentiated instruction teacher’s guide: Getting to the core of teaching and learning. Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario.

      mine

    2. A very clear summative assessment tool, like a rubric focused on what the student knows, understands and is able to do, is critical.

      Again... Allowing the student to know exactly what is expected from them.

    3. Differentiated instruction is recognizing and being responsive to different learning needs of individuals and small groups of students.

      Knowing that not all students learn the same way and not all are on the same level.

    4. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

      Allowing students to make choices that affect their own learning.

    5. A pre-assessment is critical to determine what current knowledge and skill have already been mastered by individuals so the teacher can then determine which paths need to be made available.

      It's so important to truly know your students so you can determine what they already know. By doing this you are able to see what they need to progress.

    6. High-quality curriculum – identifying exactly what you want the students to know, understand, and be able to do at a rigorous and challenging level

      So many teachers don't do this! When you don't know what to expect, you don't know what to do.

    1. It turns out, the evolution wasn't really about the computers. Moving from "computer as furniture" to "computer as practice station" to "computer as occasional lesson decoration" to "computer as an extension of and enhancement to teacher and student thought" required a serious transformation of how teachers thought about teaching and learning.

      This is very hard. We did not have the technology in our classrooms as students so it is difficult to see them in classrooms today. You feel like by offering all this technology in a classroom you are taking away real instructional time.