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Online thinking tools are active learning places where students can engage in robust discussions, analyze complex information, pursue investigations, and solve problems.

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Using critical thinking and analysis skills, the student then writes an article on the event, citing their Web sources.

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The Differentiator helps to guide you as you create learning activities and lessons for the various learning needs in your classroom. First choose a thinking skill from one of six categories (remember, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating). Next, pick a way to to differentiate the content. Then, you will choose a resource that students will use. Select a product for students to create it can be visual, constructed, oral, multimedia, or written. Finally choose the group size. As you choose items for each category a learning objective sentence will be created.

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we look for ways to use technology in our classrooms that is limited by our awareness of the technologies available along with limited understanding of how today's learners are truly different than those of previous years. How many of us try to find technologies that FIT into our way of teaching, instead of increasing our understanding of new ways kids who have grown up digital learn and interact with their world. What is our responsibility as educators to understand our new audience and learn new methods to reach this audience?