PODelation

From The Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC)

You’ll know your integration is effective if it is:

• Supporting diverse learners needs (SPED, ELL, TAG) /Meeting more diverse learning needs
• Enabling a wider range of teaching styles /Augmenting teachers’ instructional style
• Increasing the range of “hard-to-master” teaching strategies
• Creating more positive teacher/student relationships
• Building cooperation between students
• Allowing teachers to see and appreciate students’ strengths rather than their deficits
• Allowing more precise “on-the-fly”/”real-time” identification of barriers to student learning
• Helping teachers use data to modify instruction
• Expanding students’ appreciation and understanding of other people and cultures – both in class and globally
• Helping students “shine” in the classroom
• Targeted clearly toward identified school /classroom improvement goals
• Introduced and taught in the context of core curriculum activities and projects rather than as standalone technology skills units