After working on a skill with these students in class, they can continue to develop and work on them through Odyssey. This technology best fits with David Warlick's 5th idea of a personalized learning environment. Students are allowed to safely make mistakes. They can continue to make mistakes and can be given numerous chances to solve the problem correctly.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Tech. Transformed Learning Environments
One use of technology that works well in my special education math classes for 6th and 7th grade is a learning program called Odyssey. Here students are given the core subjects and they are personalized to their ability level based on standardized testing completed in the beginning of the year.
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This sounds like a version of a tutorial that adapts to a student's responses to take them to the next question most suited to their ability and to address mistakes. It definitely is personalized and addresses mistakes. These tutorial fill a definite need.
ReplyDeleteDo you find Odyssey motivating for the students? Are they driven at all by their own interests? You could actually do this if you had multiple subject matter areas for teaching the content, but I don't think this is generally done. Are students driven by their own interests and questions? How could Odyssey fit in with a larger curriculum that focuses on these two aspects?
I have heard of Odyssey before but don't completely know how it works. It sounds like it works for upper level special education, but would you recommend it for the lower levels? I have had a lot of experience with special education and always looking for ways to help differentiate my curriculum to benefit my students best. I would love to hear your opinion on this.
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