Matt Monjan Discovery Education streaming and Differentiated Instruction – How to Engage Every Learner in Your Classroom

Students Learn Differently Today an obvious fact – but the basis for this session They also pull media/information from different sources

Learning Cycle and Decision Factors Used in Planning and Implementing Differentiated Instruction Pre- Assessment (Quiz Builder) (Quiz Builder) Student Readiness/Ability Interests/Talents Learning Profile Prior Knowledge Curriculum State and Local Standards & Benchmarks (Standards Search Feature) (Standards Search Feature) Content What teacher plans to teach Process How teacher plans Instruction: Whole Class (US video, Atlas, PPT, songs, etc) Groups/Pairs (US + PPT, + Activity) Individually (Builders, iPod, blog, wiki, more) Assessment of Content (Quiz Builder, Writing Prompt) Summative Evaluation

Quiz Builder – A great Assessment Tool in class or at home

More tools to reach different learners Photo Story or MovieMaker (free from Microsoft)Photo Story Songs/Audio files iPhoto or iMovie from (free from Apple)SongsAudioiMovie iPods and Pod casts in the classroomiPods Pod casts Cell Phones – yes Cell Phones!Cell Phones Closed Captions Blogs Wikies (live on-line resources that you/students can edit) – teacher wikiesteacher wikies Writing Prompts with unitedstreaming imagesWriting Prompts Websites – unitedstreaming’s Atlas and the Builders – of course!Atlas

Let’s meet my godson Zack

iPods as Learning Centers and More! Teach a Geography Lesson (north/south example) Use iPod to reach ELL or Audio and Visual learners Create an eBook (or iBook) to use in a learning center Create a PPT with images that match the text that you want your students to learn. Then read aloud, or even better have students read aloud the text. Record and put onto iPod

DE streaming Audio – Song + Power Point DE Streaming has close to 400 elementary school songs on the site. To find them change the Within Drop Down box to Songs and click on the “Go” button Download the song (right- click, “save target as” on PC or ctl + click on Mac) and insert it into your Powerpoint Then add in DE streaming Images or create your own and add!

Songs that help teach the English language Learning Our Long Vowels (02:56)Long vowels say their names.© 2005 Twin SistersLearning Our Long Vowels Learning Our Short Vowels (01:47) Learn about short vowel sounds. © 2005 Twin SistersLearning Our Short Vowels Letters “c” and “g” Have Two Sounds (04:48) In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft.Letters “c” and “g” Have Two Sounds Q and U Are Friends (01:13) A song about words that start with QU © 2005 Twin SistersQ and U Are Friends Rhyming Word Rule (02:30)Rhyming Word Rule Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the beginning. © 2005 Twin Sisters Silly Sally’s Sister (00:29) A tongue twister with the letter S © 2005 Twin SistersSilly Sally’s Sister Singing the Consonant Sounds (04:36) A song about words that start with B,C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z © 2005 Twin SistersSinging the Consonant Sounds The Alphabet Swing (01:21) Sing the letters of the alphabet.The Alphabet Swing

Ok – I’m with you with on the iPods…but cell phones …in my classroom???

I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids “Turn your phones ON!” when they come to class. Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as in let’s learn how we can use our phones (since just about every student had one at his school) to extend what we’re doing in class. - post by willrichwillrich Will Richardson

He goes on to say… We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from early on by modeling our own cell phone use to access information and learn throughout the curriculum. Will Richardson

We have to somehow find strategies to teach our kids to use cell phones and computers and the like in effective ways, and we also have to bend our thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do in classrooms in the first place. Will Richardson Bottom line…

Here’s a way to model Next time you catch a cell phone in your class do the following – ask the student to: 1.Take a picture of a rhombus somewhere on campus with their cell phone camera and send it to you 2.Interview a Veteran and send you a link to their podcast 3.Text you three significant quotes from your area of study 4. Record a ring-tone of an musical innovator… From Watch cell phones suddenly disappear

Use Discovery Education streaming images and create a voicethread – / /

Opening up the Closed Captions 1.To help hearing impaired students 2.To reach visual learners 3.To teach a grammar lesson 4.To teach a vocabulary lesson 5.To work on predicting outcomes Why might we want to use CC in the classroom?

Finding CC files Log into unitedstreaming.com and click on the Advanced Search link Scroll down and click in the box next to “Include only Closed Captioned Titles”

Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie First right-click on the blue download icon, choose “Save Target As” and then place it in a folder on your computer Then repeat the process, this time right-clicking on the “CC” icon Adjust the CC settings within your Windows Media Player – CC settingsCC settings

Take that one step further Using the Advanced Search feature, find a video that is in both English and Spanish and is CC Download the English CC and the Spanish video Play the video in classvideo

A Really Neat CC Example The Bite Strength of Sharks The Bite Strength of Sharks a unitedstreaming video clip

Here’s how we did that Closed Captioning Trick Font Size –Open the CC file in a text editing program like Wordpad or Notepad –Locate the line of code that indicates “font size” –Increase the font size from 10 to 30 (or whatever you prefer) –Save the CC file

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Create a Writing Prompt A writing prompt is a tool located inside DE streaming’s Teacher Center You can tie in imagery + text to scaffold your instruction and/or create a unique writing assignmentwriting assignment

Examples of Teachers’ Work PowerPoint + DE streaming audio DE streaming video and images + Adobe Premier Elements, and audio Discovery Atlas, Google Earth + Adobe Premier Elements, green screens

While many schools restrict access to blogs, WIKI’s etc… …others embrace it.

Wait a minute…couldn’t my students use their cell phones with Gcast too? You bet! Check this out – What is Virginia’s State Flower? Call GCAST ( ) Enter in the number Enter PIN 2325 Record your name and message, and either: Save and Publish it instantly

Explore your world with out leaving your classroom! Use the Atlas as an Activator

Example of Video + Power Point Working with three of your classmates, draw a map of your school During your exploration of your school and its grounds, draw at least 10 items/areas that you find along your route When you get back draw a time line of your adventure- make sure that you include significant events that you encountered along the way

Time Line Example 1:00 PM1:15 PM1:30 PM1:45 PM2:00 PM Began TripFound the lost locker of Hall C Enjoyed a feast with the indigenous Cafeterians Was introduced to the native game of Dodge Ball in the Gymnasium Trip Ended

Recording Sound with PPT 1.Click on the word Insert in your Tool Bar 2.Click on Movies and Sounds 3.Click on Record Sound 4.Click on the red dot and record your students narrating the encyclopedia article that you round in DE Streaming

Giezi My Notes 1 st grade Reading level Grew up on a farm in Puerto Rico, loves the outdoors Auditory learner, prefers to work independently Action Plan Content = Jeff Corwin video Process = Learning center assignment with closed captioning enabled Product = Short quiz or Writing Prompt linked to assignment

Michelle My Notes Grade-level reader (above grade-level in Spanish) Enjoys reading stories about kids her age Expresses herself best through her writing Action Plan Content = Short stories (e.g., Chicken Soup for the Children’s Soul) Process = Customized writing prompts (English and Spanish) Product = Digital portfolio of journal entries

Ebony My Notes Excellent reader Wants to be a news reporter Does not test well, but loves to work on projects Action Plan Content = Process = Product =

Daniel My Notes Advanced in all subject areas Wants to write, produce and direct movies Artistic and creative Action Plan Content = Process = Product =

Using DE streaming Tools to Reach the 21 st Century Mind Collaborative Projects using DE streaming editable movies, cell phones and cameras! Displaying DE streaming videos on TVs and LCD projectors, whiteboards, etc Projecting DE streaming math or close captioned videos, articles, calendars and images on interactive white boards Creating learning centers or labs with DE tools like the Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builders Making it portable – DE On-The-Go with iPods Tying DE streaming into teacher/class wikis, blogs, websites

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