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Environment

“This includes the physical classroom or learning space, how that space is used, available resources, and grouping patterns for students. A classroom where students always sit in rows in the same assigned seats is not an optimal environment for differentiation. A classroom with flexible groupings and seating arrangements, a variety of resources, and wall and shelf spaces to use for learning and displays of student work is a classroom that invites differentiation."

Ways that technology can enhance classroom environment:

  • Enhanced collaboration through the use of Web 2.0 tools such as Google Apps.
  • Blogging provides a comfortable forum for participation leading to increased discourse and possibilities for extensions.
  • Technology lends itself to an inquiry-based classroom by providing limitless sources of content knowledge.
  • Computers can be used as an organizational tool to ensure that documents and materials are stored in one spa