differentiation with the aid of technology
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Differentiation with the aid of technology.
Kylie Taig
http://pinterest.com/kylietaig/
differentiation-with-the-aid-of-technology/
What is differentiation?“Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual
needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process,
products or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes thus a successful approach
to instruction”
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Focus on ONE strategy at a time!
Learning to effectively differentiate instruction
does take time.
As with any instructional practice, fluency comes
with experience.
But the initial investment of time can offset time that might otherwise be spent re-teaching material that students failed to learn as
a result of a
non-differentiated approach.
Impacts of technology on learning #1
“Technology improves student performance when the application directly supports the curriculum
objectives being assessed.”
In other words, technology is most effective when integrated with curriculum content.
Impacts of technology on learning #2
“Technology improves performance when the application provides
opportunities for student collaboration.”
Studies show that paired and collaborative learning in conjunction with technology
enhances student performance.
Impacts of technology on learning #3
“Technology improves performance when the application adjusts for student ability
and prior experience, and provides feedback to the student and teacher about student performance or progress with the
application.”
This finding supports the differentiated instruction practices of coaching and mentoring as well as
sharing responsibility for learning.
Impacts of technology on learning #4
“Technology improves performance when the application is integrated into
the typical instructional day.”
This finding supports classroomand content learning with technology as opposed to lab learning with technology.
Impacts of technology on learning #5
“Technology improves performance when the application provides opportunities for students to design and implement projects that extend the curriculum content being
assessed by a particular standardised test.”
Student-created products, multimedia, and video streaming are examples of how
technology can extend curriculum content.
Impacts of technology on learning #6
“Technology improves performance when used in environments where teachers, the school
community, and school and district administrators support the use of technology.”
In addition to performance improvements tied to administrative support for technology, findings show that
integration of technology with instruction, professional development for teachers, and computer use at home and school with differentiated products and student
entry points combine to improve performance.
The obvious…
Before making the decision to use a
particular technology for a particular lesson,
teachers should first make decisions
about the learning goals, activities, and
assessments that will shape the
learning experience.
Focus should be on the
LEARNING– not the technology
itself.
Teachers can differentiate:
ContentProcess
ProductEnvironment
According to:
student readiness
student intereststudent learning profile
By Conte
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Different levels of reading or resource materials, reading buddies, small group instruction, curriculum compacting, multi-level computer programs and Web Quests, tape- recorded materials, etc.
By Proces
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Activity choice boards, tiered activities, multi-level learning center tasks, similar readiness groups, choice in group work, varied journal prompts, mixed readiness groups with targeted roles for students, etc
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Tiered products, students choose mode of presentation to demonstrate learning, independent study, varied rubrics, mentorships, interest-based investigations T
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Options in content, topic, or theme, options in the tools needed for production, options in methods for engagement
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Consideration of gender, culture, learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses
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Identification of background knowledge/gaps in learning, options in amount of direct instruction, options in amount of practice, options in pace of instruction, options in complexity activities, options in level of analysis/exploration of a topic
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Differentiating by CONTENT:
Differentiating by content can happen in a variety of ways, but the two primary means include:
1) Using different content to teach the same subject to students with different needs, and
2) Enhancing or augmenting existing content to make it accessible to all students.
Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com
Supplement verbal and textual input with visual
reinforcement like video and images:
Authentic content produced with the learner in mind.
Easily searchable and offers a range of topics and levels.
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Web 20.10http://web2010.
discoveryeducation.com
As our students become more entrenched in
technology, we need tools that can help us keep up with the ever-
changing online landscape. Simple new tools make it easier than ever to
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Discovery Education combines
scientifically proven, standards-based
digital media and a user community in
order to empower teachers to
improve student achievement. Free
lesson plans written by teachers for
teachers. Here you will find hundreds
of original lesson plans for
elementary, middle and high school
students. Use them as they are or
modify them to create your own.
Lesson Plan Library
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans
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Tag Galaxy
http://taggalaxy.de/
Tag Galaxy is a brilliant way to visually explore word
relationships – spelling or vocab words.
Use it as a cue to brainstorm a
new topic: What do you know about the rain forest?
Use it a a cue to recall knowledge: What did we learn
about the rain forest
Use it as a cue for essay writing
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Video Ant
http://ant.umn.edu/
Pause your movie and make comments during the
important parts!!
Add in a video straight from YouTube
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MathTV
http://www.mathtv.com
MathTV offers Math help for a variety of concepts!
Choose your topic, choose your teacher and away you
go!
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Stixy
http://www.stixy.com
Stixy is an online bulletin board that allows you to easily organize and share
schedules, projects, photos and documents
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Many eyes
http://www-958.ibm.com
Many eyes is an IBM Research project and
website whose stated goal is to enable data analysis
by making it easy for people to create visual representations of data.
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FunnelBrain
http://www.funnelbrain.com
FunnelBrain gives you and your friends a new way to learn. You can form study teams, play games, take
quizzes, and show off your intellectual prowess. It's fun, it's free and you'll do
better in class.
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News Map
http://marumushi.com/projects/newsmap
This is a visual representation of the day’s news. Information is sorted
into countries and within that, colour-coded
categories – like national, world, sport, business,
technology etc
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And don’t forget…
Online course platforms like ClassE (Blackboard) provide a structure for
content, allowing teachers to organise material in such a way to make them easily
accessible to students.
Differentiating by PROCESS
The process of how the material in a lesson is learned may be differentiated for students based on their learning styles, interest and readiness. This stage of differentiation allows students to
learn based either on what method is easiest for them to acquire knowledge, or what may challenge
them most: some students may prefer to read about a topic (or may require practice in reading), and others may prefer to listen (or require practice in listening), or acquire knowledge by manipulating
objects associated with the content.
Process =
1) Flexible Grouping
2) How information is Processed and Recorded
3) Manipulating Information
4) Extending learning time – without extending your work day!
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org
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Read Write Think is a collection of resources,
interactive modules, lesson plans and student
information designed to help with reading and
written instruction
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NoteStarhttp
://notestar.4teachers.org/
NoteStar is an Internet utility to
assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and
students can set up research
projects with topics and sub-topics.
Students may then take advantage
of NoteStar's many features to
collect and organize their notes
and prepare their bibliography page
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LiveBinders
http://www.livebinders.com
/ Live Binders organize all of your websites, documents, movies, and images into
tabs and subtabs and then share your “stuff” on the
web.
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Virtual Field Trips
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/
listvirtualgr.html Virtual Field Trips are another good way to have students
experience and learn in a way beyond the typical lecture. These can be used by the
teacher with the whole class or
by individual students. Here’s some tips on where to find
some great virtual field trips.
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Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/
Bubbl.us is a Web 2.0 tool that
enables users to create mind mapping and brainstorming
diagrams online. To begin, the main
topic/concept is entered in to the
parent bubble. Then ideas and
thoughts are recorded in colorful
text bubbles linked to the parent
bubble. Users continue to add text
bubbles which are color coded according to hierarchy.
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Voice Thread
http://ed.voicethread.com
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with
video, voice, and text commenting.
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Scootle
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/
home Learn,
teach and collaborate using digital resources to
support the Australian Curriculum
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Jing
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Simple and free, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations. Create
images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them
instantly!
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Profcast
http://www.profcast.com/public/
index.php ProfCast is a versatile,
powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording
lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote
slides for creating enhanced podcasts.
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Padlet (AKA WallWisher)
http://padlet.com/
Padlet is an online notice board maker – ideal for
making announcements, keeping notes – all the
things that you can do with Post-its.
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And don’t forget…One of the easiest differentiation tools for a reading passage is a software program that most teachers have readily at hand — Microsoft Word. Smaller reading passages, copied and pasted into Microsoft Word, can be easily enhanced to aid comprehension using standard formatting features within the program. Using the highlighting feature can help students focus on particular aspects of a text like parts of speech, literary devices, or key elements of a paragraph or research paper. Teachers can also use the comment feature to provide scaffolding or context for a student who needs help with a reading passage. Comments allow a user to insert a call-out box elaborating on a difficult vocabulary word, idiomatic expression, or complicated idea.
Differentiating by PRODUCT:
Student deomnstrations of learning refect who they are as individuals, who they are as creators and who they are as learners.
Differentiating by product means offering options for how students will express their understanding of the learning goals and objectives.
Allowing students to ‘choose’ empowers them and increases their motivation and engagement.
Newspaper Clipping
http://tinyurl.com/v5dns
Don’t limit yourself to just creating a newspaper – try the talking squirrels or the
Wizard text!
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Socrative
http://www.socrative.com
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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to
engage their classrooms through a series of
educational exercises and games via smartphones,
laptops, and tablets.
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Glogster
http://www.glogster.com
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Glogster is a a website that allows users to create free
interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for
"graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia
image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact
with the content.
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50 word challenge
http://xrl.us/50words
The 50 word challenge is exactly that! Write and
post a 50 word story with a beginning, middle and end!
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Tic Tac Toe
http://differentiatedclassroom.edublogs.org/files/2012/04/Think-tac-toe-
27vgwyd.pdf Tic Tac Toe is a simple way to give alternative ways to expressing key ideas and
using key skills.
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Tic
Tac
Toe
Pixton
http://www.pixton.com/uk
/
Create your own cartoons with fully pose able
characters & animals! Upload pictures, create
freestyle panel layouts, add sound & voice-over, and
much more!
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Zooburst
http://www.zooburst.com
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ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets
anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their
own rich worlds in which their stories can come to
life.
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Cue Prompter
http://www.cueprompter.com/
CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue
service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.
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StoryBird
http://storybird.com
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards.
They’re curiously fun.
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Present.Me
https://present.me/
Present Me is a web service that lets
you create effective presentations
through your PowerPoint files. What
makes this site unique, is it lets you
add a narrative to the presentation.
Once you upload your PowerPoint,
you can record a narrative through
your webcam and microphone as if
you were presenting the slideshow.
The final presentation then appears
with your webcam recording on the
right and slides on the left. A filmstrip
view of the slides is also given on the
bottom of the presentation.
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There is a lot to consider…
O Learning styles, skill levels and ratesO Learning difficultiesO Language proficiencyO Background experiences and
knowledgeO InterestsO MotivationO Social and emotional developmentO Various intelligences
But wait!Do you want more??
Stop watch:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com
Today Meet
http://todaysmeet.com/
TodaysMeet helps you embrace
the backchannel and connect
with your audience in real time.
Encourage the room to use the
live stream to make comments,
ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your
presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience
needs.
Tiny URL
http://tinyurl.com
Tiny URL converts your looooong URL into a short and convenient address that students can easily
copy from the board!
Random Name Picker
http://www.classtools.net/educa
tion-games-php/fruit_machine