Tiering teaching Torah... with technology

In trying to a) articulate the need to teach Torah in a variety of differentiated ways to best meet the needs and multiple intelligences of students and b) highlight the necessity of integrating technology in Jewish Education, I decided to achieve both in this little film clip I produced via www.xtranormal.com. 

In the video, the well-intentioned but stuck-in-his-ways teacher is identifying pshat as the key goal or understanding of Torah learning - he wants his students to understand pshat. 

The student wants the same thing, but is expressing the need to tier the process and product - he wants to express his learning in a way that best suits him.

There is the well-known Midrash writes that there are 70 "faces" to the Torah (Bamidbar Rabbah 13:15).  There are many valid ways of learning and understanding each part of the Torah.  While the goal is to teach our students to love and to learn Torah, we can modify the process and product of that learning.  The Torah is multifaceted.  So are our children and students.

Note to educators - if you choose to use xtranormal.com in the class (which I highly recommend!), look for a tab marked "Education" to click on when you begin.   Click "Accept" to install a cookie in your browser that will enable the education-safe version of xtranormal.com.