Addressing+Different+Learning+Styles

Session Description:
Students learn in different ways and often come to a course with different backgrounds and levels of preparedness. Using technology, you can make material available to your students in different forms, allowing them to engage with course material at their own pace and in the medium that suits them best.

Presenter Bio: Andrew Churches, Auckland, New Zealand
Andrew Churches is a classroom teacher and ICT enthusiast. He passionately believes that to prepare our students for the future, we must prepare them for change, teach them to question and think, to adapt and modify, to sift and sort. Andrew teaches at Kristin School, an independent school in Auckland, New Zealand. He has been deeply involved in the school's mobile computing program. This program reflects the future that our students and children will be entering into with ubiquitous portable computing and an increasingly digital world.

Andrew is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, this year presenting an institute at ASB unplugged in Mumbai, a workshop and presentation at ISTE in Denver and keynotes in Auckland and Sydney, Australia. He is also a workshop leader for the International Baccalaureate organization. Outside of school, Andrew is an outdoor instructor and an adventure enthusiast. He enjoys sharing and presenting his work, research, thoughts and musings. He is an edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator. In 2008 and 2009, Andrew's wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best wiki awards. His Blog, also called Educational Origami, was nominated for the best resources sharing blog award. He is a regular contributor to a number of websites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine and the Committed Sardine Blog, as well as his own edorigami blog. Andrew has refined Bloom's taxonomy to be more inclusive of digital media creating Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.