EDLD 5364 Teaching with Technology

The saying goes "you get what you pay for".  That's so true with traditional teaching vs. teaching with technology. In this week’s reading from (Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Student Learning), it says “Instilling flexibility into methods and materials maximizes learning opportunities not only for students with identified disabilities, but for all students. We need to capitalize on teaching all students to their maximum potential.  Each student learns differently and we can’t put them into the cookie cutter mold of using a textbook and teaching traditionally. 

We need to have different ways for different students and reach out and find out which way each student needs to learn and get them what they need to learn best. There can’t be a stagnant learning environment.  The same old, same old isn’t cutting it anymore.  Once we get out of the cookie cutter mold of learning and branch out and use every piece of technology at our disposal to reach each student we will truly be maximizing our learning capabilities.

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Student Learning, Chapter 1, Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/