Describe the different attributes of high-quality instructional tools (i.e., instructional strategies, models, or technologies)
What will be an ideal response?
High-quality instructional tools are powerful, dependable, practical, flexible, and enduring. Powerful tools make the efforts of the person using it better or greater than they are without the tool. Dependable tools have high odds of working with few breakable parts. Practical tools do not waste instructional time, but helps accomplish a job that the user would consider worth doing. Flexible tools may be used effectively by many different learners and across subject areas. Finally, enduring tools persist in use and appeal over time. (From Characteristics of High-Quality Tools).
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A) A range of flexible options. B) Left-handed rather than right-handed. C) Number oriented rather than digit oriented. D) Basis for mental computation and estimation.