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=__**Week 3**__ = This weeks readings I feel helped give an understanding of how to plan appropriately for technology in the classroom. The main theme from several of the readings was that technology use should always have a purpose and objectives. Using technology for the purpose of using it is not good.

In the book, //**"Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works"**// by Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell, Matt Kuhn and Kim Malenoski, I found the information on feedback very enlightening. The quote below was very interesting. //**"The simplest prescription for improving education must be 'dollops' of feedback"(Hattie, 1992, p. 9)**// The generalizations below from McREL's research on feedback are great guidlines to remember when planning and delivering feedback. //**Generalizations: 1. Feedback sould be corrective in nature. 2. Feedback should be timely. 3. Feedback sould be specific to a criterion. 4. Students can effectively provide some of their own feedback. (Pitler,Hubbell,Kuhn,Malenoski, p. 41) **//

The authors gave three recommendations listed below. //**1. Use criterion-referenced feedback. 2. Focus feedback on specific types of knowledge. 3. Use student-led feedback.**////** (Pitler,Hubbell,Kuhn,Malenoski, p. 42) **// Many ideas were given of ways technology can give appropriate feedback. Some of them included new to me tools in Microsoft word such as: comments, readability statistics and the built in thesaurus.

The [|Cast site] with Universal Design for learning explained is a great site that gave remarkable in site on how to teach every child. It explains ways to teach in a diverse classroom and every child find success. It provides several tools such as the UDL bookbuilder, UDL Lesson builder.

I am really enjoying our reading of the **//Web 2.0//** book by Solomon and Schrum. It list so many tools and web sites that are great. I am going to list a few for use at a later time.

** Web 2.0 sites listed: http://judgeradio.blogspot.com/ http://www.alatechsource.org/ http://www.abbemuseum.org/ http://www.paineandthesoldiers.blogspot.com/ http://greece.teachingmatters.org/ http://podcasts.medievalstudies.info/ http://ahistoryteacher.com/ http://mtn.e2bn.net/rostra/news.php?r=1&t=2&id=14 http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/** http://www.twis.org/ http://www.thinkquest.org/en/

** Some Useful sites: **
http://udlselfcheck.cast.org/ ** This is the site to check your lesson with the UDL Selfcheck. ** http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ ** This is the UDL book builder site. ** http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/ **One of the readings from this week that explained UDL.**