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=== When completing the learning styles survey, I learned that I am a visual/ nonverbal learner. This means that I learn best from information that is presented visually and in a picture or design. Useful tools for learners like me include films, videos, maps, as well as charts, pictures, and diagrams in textbooks. When remembering something, I usually visualize things in my head, so using things like flashcards are often useful. ===

Questions on CAST:
**1.** **In completing the learning styles survey, did you learn anything new about your personal learning style, or did the information confirm what you have already determined about how you learn best? Were there any suggestions offered for improving your study skills that you had not considered before?** Before completing the learning styles survey, I was familiar with that fact that I was more of a visual learner, but answering the questions helped clarify further what I had already thought. I never thought about how I memorize a phone number, and how that is relatable to also liking puzzles and word problems. Some suggestions I will take into account include flashcards, drawing pictures, and using different colored pens and highlighters. I already do some of these study methods, but I also found some others useful.

**2.** **What was your overall impression of the CAST website?** I think the CAST website is overall an excellent resource for both current and future teachers. There are many concepts and ideas which make this a very useful tool for all teachers. It is also convenient that they have all the //Teaching every Student in the Digital Ag,// chapters electronically available. **3.** **Did you find any interesting information in the electronic version of //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age//? Describe how you might incorporate that information in your teaching.** I learned a lot from this website. As we all have discussed, technology is every growing, and will continue to affect the way a child learns. With technology all around us, I think it is very important for them to become comfortable with it at a young age, and use it as much as accessible. I found it very interesting when //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age,// described the use of media is a way to lead to the most flexible learning environment. I think that using technology such as computers, smartboards and videos, grab students attention, no matter what their learning style is. Students would rather sit at a computer, or watch a video to understand a new concept, rather than sit at a desk and complete a worksheet. I think that if we had more technology available to us as younger students, I would have had a completely different learning experience than what I had in the past.

**4.** **What was your reaction to the 2 activities in which you participated? Did you gain any new insight into your strengths and talents through these exercises?** I learned a lot from the webpage as well as the survey located on the webpage, about all learning styles, not only my own style. It offers great suggestions for all kinds of learners you will have in your future classrooms, and the most effective ways of teaching those learners. I also think the CAST website is a great tool that I will use in the future. As a teacher, especially a new teacher, there are never too many resources available for help. There are so many new ideas on this website to spice up your lesson, and incorporate change into the classroom. I believe by participating in these activities, I have gained new insights into my strengths of how to apply teaching that applies to all learners so that all of my students have the best opportunity to learn, as well as how I learn best myself. **5.** **Many of my students have responded quite positively to the materials at CAST. How do you feel about this approach to developing differentiated instruction?** I agree with most other students, in that this is very useful and positive website for new teachers entering the education field. I think differentiated instruction is a very important aspect of teaching today, that will continue to spread throughout time. I think it is crucial that all students have a fair chance to learn, no matter their learning style or level. Teachers must be able to see how each student learns best, and apply that to their lessons as much as possible, while still abiding to curriculum guidelines of course. Websites like CAST are great guiding tools for educators.

**6.** **What would you like to know/explore more at CAST?** I think I will refer to this website and others like it in the future, especially when I am in a classroom on my own. I think all teachers should check out CAST.

This is my virtual field trip response questions.

This is my reading response to the article "Learning Connections: Let the Kids do the Work"

This is my annotated web assignment with helpful websites for future teachers.

[|My HTML page] This is my page on the Towson Server

This link is my digital story. For this assignment I read the book __We're Roaming in the Amazon__, by Laurie Krebs, while the illustrations play through the background. This is a great tool to use in the classroom to make a change from everyday class read aloud. Children can also use this is a guide to read along with. My Digital Story