We would hope the students have the basic skills necessary to cope witht he worlt. Perhaps all that tech. If I have student who feels one of their entries is particularly worthy of more attention, I have them fold the page so that I can give that work extra attentions. This is so true. It is also true that we as teachers need many roads to reach many differnet types of learners.
Video is effective.
What works best with one child will not necessarily work best with another. I think we are in a computer age though and need to use this median motivate and enhance. By the way, this article appears to be written for college professors. We metioned this being for profs just before you got on. My largest class of seventh graders had 17 students in it.