Reflection 6714

This course has taught me a great deal about differentiation, universal design for learning, and using technology to implement the aforementioned. The Differentiation Station social network itself was a perfect example of how to differentiate instruction, using technology. I am thinking of creating cooperative learning groups and having each group make their own social networking site so that they can bounce ideas off each other through this. As they are working on a project, they can post relevant links, ideas, or questions. They can engage in a chat outside of school to collaborate.
As far as the resources my classmates have shared with me, there is a great deal of websites on our own networking site that I have found beneficial to helping me understand the concepts in this course. I will use these sites to pull ideas for activities in my classroom.
I will immediately change the way I use laptops in my classroom. When I have the students work on laptops, I typically have them all working on the same assignment. Instead, I will now have them use them to work in stations, depending on what they need help with.