In today's age of big data, words and phrases like "adaptive learning," "personalization" and "differentiation" are getting tossed around with increasing frequency. What exactly do these terms mean and to what extent do they overlap?
"Among the responsibilities that today's educators have, teaching essay writing is the most challenging one. Some teachers leave essay writing to natural talent; explain the process in simple steps, assign the topics, and give a deadline."
Miguel Guhlin has provide this great insight to resources assisting in digitizing writing. This was created as a reflection upon his experience in the Abydos program. Much of it goes along with Six Traits of Writing.
I was taking a look at all the resources that I had collected during 2008 in my LearnTech Library as well as those that I had posted in the LearnTech News, to identify those that I particularly enjoyed, that inspired me, made me think and/or I just found useful. There were many, but I finally narrowed my list down to 100 (see below).
I then fed all the titles into Wordle to generate a word cloud and identify trends in this collection of my favourite resources. Here it is -my review of 2008 - click on the image for the full-size image.