January
i3 Monthly Update
Personalized Learning
Commonly Used Personalized Learning Tech Tools
This month’s focus on “Personalized Learning” highlights the importance of designing learning opportunities that address varied learner needs and preferences and prompt teachers to create opportunities for students to personalize their learning.
Three pathways for personalized learning are Visual, Auditory/ Verbal, and Tactile.
Visual Learning
Visual learning encompasses choices for students that like to explain by seeing and demonstrating. Choices for this can include design apps that allow working with posters or collages and ways to image share. This can also include video app choices for modeling or organization apps for brainstorming.
Some of the resources may be familiar:
In playing around with the links, I thought Clips would be especially useful.
Auditory/ Verbal Learning
Auditory learning is a style of learning in which an individual learns most efficiently through hearing and listening. Auditory learners retain information better when it is delivered through sound or speech rather than written form.
Verbal learners learn best through the words they hear as opposed to just hearing in general which is how auditory learners best learn.
Resources include:
In playing with these links, I was impressed with the possibilities of Vocaroo!
Tactile Learning
Kinesthetic or tactile learners need to physically touch or try something in order to learn the concept best. This style is often called multi-sensory learning because tactile learners hear or see to learn, and then complete their learning by trying it out themselves.
Resources for Tactile Learning include:
Consider connecting the students to their learning with this lesson-opener idea: the 3 Whys
You are doing so much everyday! You have grown in using technology in the classroom over the past several years. Are you sharing your successes? Tweet your triumphs!
Create a Twitter account for your professional self. Please add your information to this Google Sheet and advocate for your classroom!
Share with me: @dghtymusicrocks, with the school: @DES_Hornets, and with the Digital Learning Team: @DigitalGISD.
Want to be caught being techy? Email me I'd love to come by your classroom, take some pics, and share your successes!