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Week 4 Overview

This week our assignment consists of readings, vidoes, progress monitor, update our wiki with a recap of Week 4, and to work on designing and creating technology-based activities with our group for the scenario-based group project.

In this week reading, Pitler's //Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works// talks about cooperative learning groups. It is discussed that groups can be formal, informal, or based and should be used consistently and systematically. It also covers how web-enabled learning and communication software benefits all diverse learners in these collaborative groups. In //Web 2.0 New Tools, New Schools//, we read about professional development and the different ways that it can be presented: blogging, podcasts, wikis are just to name a few. McRel Initiative program was launched because "schools lacked the appropriate technology guidance, resources, and professional development programs to support them [schools] in becoming high-performing learning systems." In Chapter 7 of //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age//, Rose and Meyer discuss the different assessment strategies that teachers should use in order for every test to be fair to every diverse learner. The videos showed different ways of implementing technology into the classroom and gave various reasons why teachers should implement more technology into their classrooms. Another video talked about the importance of proper professional development for teachers involving technology.