Low+Tech

Low Tech
Examples of low tech tools are signs printed on paper, schedules, topic boards, pictures printed on individual pieces of paper or labeled folders to put student work into.

Low tech tools are usually inexpensive and appear simplistic in their design. Don't be fooled. Low tech tools can assist a student in getting immediately on track and focused on what he/she needs to know. Low tech tools also can offer the student a different way to interact with course content and increase their success with it. Many of us have had the experience of working with the example of a printed pizza as a manipulative in the teaching of fractions. Though it may make some of us hungry, it clearly and consistently explains fractions to just about anyone who sees it.