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like to add another characteristic to Moodle (or, of course
any Virtual Learning Environment): Differentiation
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With Moodle schools
and teachers can differentiate towards their students in time.
And with a library schools and teachers can differentiate
in space.
This sounds vague,
but it's all too real. I'll show you by giving examples that
occur in our library very often;
A simple example of differentiation in time: a teacher can
place a task in Moodle and tell his class that it should be
finished in a week. After a week the students have sent their
work to the teacher and the teacher will give each of the
students a personal reaction and a mark.
A teacher can also place some special tailor-made information
for an individual student in Moodle. Maybe this student is
ahead of his colleagues or slow, maybe the student needs some
remedial execises.
In theory a teacher,
absent due to illness, can place a task in Moodle and tell
his class to perform it in the library. That way the class
doesn't lose that hour. I registrate the students and answer
questions...
A teacher will say: can I come the last 15 minutes of the
next hour?
And he or she will show the students where the work is in
Moodle and how to go about it.
If the school thinks
that it would be handy if the students learn about, say The
Gimp.
Then a class of students could come in the library during
an hour without a teacher.
Students are using
the computers more and more in the library after their school
hours in the afternoon.
On the one hand it's because there's
more and more for them to work within Moodle, on the other
hand working in the media centre gives them the possibility
to work together.
The combination of a digital learning environment (Moodle)
and a physical learning environment is gold
for a school because time is used better.
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