I think the idea of choice and using technology as a differentiation technique is very powerful. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing – just finding ways to get different students engaged and all students learning is what we’re looking for. This is just another tool in our teacher tool-kit!

I also wanted to leave a comment on your previous post about “real” friends, but there’s something wrong (keep getting an error saying that page can’t be found) so I’ll leave it here:

I probably wouldn’t have believed online friends were real friend either, until it happened to me. As Chrissy will tell you in class tomorrow, we had collaborated and communicated online for almost a year before we met face-to-face, and when we did it was nothing. Like we had known each other for years. I could guess what she would say next, we were laughing like old friends. In fact, she even recognized my husband in the hallway in our building because she had seen enough pictures of us online to recognize him in person.

I wrote a post about this experience a few months back I think you might like: Virtual Friendships – don’t forget to read the comments too