These tips about personlising with technology are really 10 ways to apply UDL concepts to your technology use. A good quick and dirty of how UDL and technology overlap.
"More important than the gadgets themselves, of course, is how the teachers use them to create personalized lessons and a productive environment where each child is engaged."
I wish some of our staff development would focus on bringing all of the elements together the way that this article does. Sometimes we might lose sight of the bigger picture with so much technology available to us. This puts it all in perspective.
Interesting points. I especially like 6. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION AS A SIGN OF DISTINGUISHED TEACHER
The 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn't yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job. Differentiation won't make you 'distinguished'; it'll just be a natural part of your work.
I go to a play that I’d like to my students to record and highlight the old commercial. If they’re using diigo when they access this page they’ll see the same text highlighted in pink, and when they mouse over the highlighted text they’ll get a hidden message from me – “I’d like you to write a new advertisement for this section
You can ask questions about the site, or have students carry on conversations about the text.
You could use the same webpage for multiple classes, and have a different set of sticky notes for each one!