differentiation Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/differentiation/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:48:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 Google Classroom: How to differentiate like a ninja https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-classroom-how-to-differentiate-like-a-ninja/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-classroom-how-to-differentiate-like-a-ninja https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-classroom-how-to-differentiate-like-a-ninja/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:55:16 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=8085 Google Classroom has lots of features that let you assign to small groups or even individual students. See how you can use them along with other ideas to start differentiating like a ninja in your class. This post is written by Jacqueline Pora, a middle school Spanish teacher for Portage Public Schools in southwest Michigan. The […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-classroom-how-to-differentiate-like-a-ninja/feed/ 0 5 ideas for using Google Classroom’s new differentiation and grouping feature https://ditchthattextbook.com/5-ideas-for-using-google-classrooms-new-differentiation-and-grouping-feature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-ideas-for-using-google-classrooms-new-differentiation-and-grouping-feature https://ditchthattextbook.com/5-ideas-for-using-google-classrooms-new-differentiation-and-grouping-feature/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:18:03 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5042 One huge drawback of using Google Classroom has been the inflexibility of creating assignments. Everything you assigned had to go to every student. Deliver assignments to small groups? Ha! Differentiate to subsets of students? Nah. Until now. Google announced a few changes to Google Classroom, and this one was the bombshell: assign activities to small […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/5-ideas-for-using-google-classrooms-new-differentiation-and-grouping-feature/feed/ 11 Google Apps “GAFE Smashing” activities — Part 2: Digital Differentiation https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-apps-gafe-smashing-activities-part-2-digital-differentiation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-apps-gafe-smashing-activities-part-2-digital-differentiation https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-apps-gafe-smashing-activities-part-2-digital-differentiation/#comments Mon, 02 May 2016 17:35:06 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4261 When students and educators start smashing Google Apps together, creative activities start to emerge that aren’t possible with a single app. We’re exploring “GAFE Smashing” in a series of posts. In our last post, we saw two creative examples of “dynamic docs” — ways to use Google Docs in conjunction with other apps. The result […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-apps-gafe-smashing-activities-part-2-digital-differentiation/feed/ 5 Why School? Why we have to rethink teaching https://ditchthattextbook.com/why-school-why-we-have-to-rethink-teaching/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-school-why-we-have-to-rethink-teaching https://ditchthattextbook.com/why-school-why-we-have-to-rethink-teaching/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:45:20 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=850 “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. “The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” — Herbert Gerjuoy (paraphrased by Alvin Toffler) If teachers can’t do this, education is headed for irrelevance. Quickly. Education is ubiquitous. You can learn from so many places these […]

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