Differentiation

I see differentiation as being able to use every student's strengths and create a lesson plan and assignments that can allow every student to reach their full potential in the classroom but as an individual learner as well.  As a teacher trying to implement differentiation you need to have the ability to assess everyone of your students learning styles and intelligences and then come up with ways to make sure that all of your students can learn at their own pace and learn all of the material necessary.  This not only means making sure that students have enough time to learn the material but also allowing those students who master the material faster than others to move on to more advanced subjects and material.

I experienced this in our project in which we needed to take three students and assess their learning styles and their intelligences and then come up with ways to teach all of them using the way they learn best.  I saw this as a pretty big challenge because it's hard to differ from the way you learn and try and realize that your students may not be able to learn the same way as you do.  Another thing that was tough was trying to find ways to allow every student to use their learning style to learn the material and making sure that they all have enough time to do all of the work.
Technology could definitely be an important part of differentiation in the classroom.  Technology would allow students to have access to material and work which would allow them to work on the material for an extended period of time which would insure that all of the students could get their work done.  You could also use PowerPoint's and other presentations in order to offer a presentation that incorporates all of the different learning styles.  You could provide tests and other presentations through Google Drive which would also allow the students to access all of the material as much as they feel is needed.  I really feel that if technology is implemented in an effective way