Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

Hi Yixuan,

I really appreciate your blog about the advantages and the disadvantages of differentiated learning. You are definitely right that differentiated instruction is tailored teaching methods to meet all students’ needs. As you mentioned, teachers can teach based on students’ characteristics and personal interests. This would greatly enhance students’ enthusiasm towards learning. However, I respectively disagree with you that schools and governments should lay more emphasis on the students with special needs. In other words, I think educators should provide more equal opportunities to students. But at the same time, teachers should motivate peers to help those who have special needs and encourage all students to achieve the same goal.

Hi Yixuan,

I 100% agree with you that game-based learning and gamification can make students learn actively in the class. It is true that when they are playing games in the class, they are actually experiencing the concept and the process of the knowledge. All these could activate them into deeper game levels to experience the knowledge. Especially in the early grade curriculum designs, it is more related to games, teachers would use manipulatives and electric devices to boost students’ learning interests. In higher grades, teachers can design traditional instruction and game experience reasonably to enhance students’ learning. All in all, I think your blog this week is so informative and useful in explaining the benefits of game-based learning and gamification.