Snowflake-giftedness present for LRND 6820 Please answer these questions for this weeks discussion on giftedness…. 1.Do you agree that giftedness is made, not born?  Why, please explain. 2.Are Dai and Renzulli onto something with their theory and indication that gifted development and delivery needs further research.? Please support your response.

1. Did the multiple formats available allow for equality among all learner’s by applying UDL practices? I think the multiple learning formats definitely help with the equality for the learner as it provides audio and visual stimulation. As Ginnette mentioned, hands-on approaches are also usually quite beneficial to a learner, and would be applicable to […]

Then, in your blog posts, share (A) your current views (as a result of researching and listening to arguments on both sides) on the real effects on Web use on thinking and learning and (B) potential strategies for learning designers to use to ensure that the products they create are truly beneficial for the learners […]

Here is a link to the Affirmative Team’s VoiceThread supporting Carr. Happy Debating everyone 🙂 http://voicethread.com/share/1405344/

Important “take-away” idea from the multimodal reading. Important “take-away” idea from the reading for me was learning the importance of including motivational pieces in learning design development.  It included enlightening information regarding the figures and past “perpetuated” (word of the week J) theories, which appear to carry inaccuracies.   To be honest, most of the time […]

If learner’s perceptions are always influenced by their memories and theories and we have a unique set, what implications does this have for learning designers? Implications this may present for learning designers I see being, is mainly the creative variety that will be necessary in an effort to reach the vast differences of student learning. […]

 It’s also likely that some of the other authors we’re reading this semester would argue that our identities are also partly defined by the environments with which we interact  (What do you think?)   I do agree that the environments with which we interact are a factor in our learning process identity.  I’ve seen how an […]