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Week 3 Overview

This week's assignments consisted of videos, readings with a progress monitor, discussion board, update wiki, creating a Lesson Plan using [], and creating a UDL Book Builder using []. As a group we are to work on finalizing our action plan for the scenario-based group project due at the end of the course, which has been changed to Friday December 18.

In the videos and in Pitler's //Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works// he talks about the four planning questions that teachers need to ask when making a lesson plan: Rose and Meyer talk more about using Universal Design of Learning (UDL) for supporting learning for all students and how the different methods of teaching are compatible with different brain functions. They also talk about how flexible the lesson and its materials must be for the diversity of the classroom to reach full potential of every student. Solomon and Schrum give ideas on how to incorporate Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more into a classroom. They break it into different subject areas and supply great examples of how and when to use these tools. In the video clippings, I saw 2 students that were amazingly talented at different technology devices and how they seem to excel at school because of it. Technology encouraged them to do more than what is required of them, like making video lessons for the class when it was not an assignment or showing the teacher how to use different technology programs. I thought that these are great videos to watch.
 * 1) What will the students learn? - Teachers use curriculum standards and benchmarks along with the NETS to determine what the students need to learn.
 * 2) Which strategies will provide evidence of student learning? - Teachers should choose a feedback technique that fully demonstrates what the students learn.
 * 3) Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning? - Teachers can use Marzano's strategies to help with student engagement.
 * 4) Which strategies will help students practice, review, and apply learning? - Teachers can use homework/practice, similarities and differences, and testing hypothesis. It was also stated that practicing a skill takes 24 times on average to reach 80% mastery.