Blog Reflection 3

To give students a choice is a differentiated instruction strategy which is meant to improve learning for several reasons.  Research indicates that giving students choices is effective by causing the student to feel they own their education.  When the student feels ownership, their engagement increases.  A goal of giving students choices is to build their critical thinking skills.  In the flattened classroom there is a great deal more room to provide different modalities for learning to suit learning styles.  The technologies make learning different and diverse.  So a choice for a student is not whether or not they want to learn how to use technologies but which technologies to use and how to use them.