+ Salisbury Township School District Allentown, Pennsylvania Jennifer L. Aponick, Supervisor of Special Education Jennifer Brinson, Instructional Coach One Size Does Not Fit All: Differentiation for all students

Differentiation Self Assessment

+ Differentiated Instruction Flexible approach to teaching with varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness, interests, and learning needs (Tomlinson, 1995) Technology Integration serves as an excellent vehicle to help educators achieve the goal of differentiating instruction

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+ Differentiated Instruction Principles Acceptance and respect of differences Materials and tasks at varied level of difficulty Motivates students to work to their highest potential Meaningful learning that emphasizes essential questions Teachers who serve as facilitators of learning and use an array of strategies that connect instruction to student needs Instruction is guided by on-going assessments Integrating technology can meet these differentiated instruction strategies

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+ Change in Philosophy From teaching content to teaching students Inquiry-based Collaboration Authentic learning and assessment Realization about what’s important Essential questions Big ideas Overarching ideas

+ What does DIFFERENTIATION look like?

+ How can this benefit my students? Students often have difficulties with reading, writing, reasoning, remembering, or organizing information Opportunities to work with appropriate concepts and technology tools and in groups of peers with a range of backgrounds and abilities Develop strengths and apply creativity to material and products that interest them Still “tests” the content just using different products as the “output” Content, process, product

Multiple Intelligence Survey Birmingham Grid for Learning Understand your learning style as a teacher Teachers often “teach” to their own learning style Understand the learning style of your students 10

Multiple Intelligences Visual / Spatial (PICTURE SMART) Visual / Spatial Verbal / Linguistic (WORD SMART) Verbal / Linguistic Intrapersonal (MYSELF SMART) Intrapersonal Auditory / Musical / Rhythmic (MUSIC SMART) Auditory / Musical / Rhythmic Logical / Mathematical (NUMBER SMART) Logical / Mathematical Naturalist / Physical World (NATURE SMART) Naturalist / Physical World Tactile / Bodily / Kinesthetic (BODY SMART) Tactile / Bodily / Kinesthetic Interpersonal (PEOPLE SMART) Interpersonal Existential (WONDER SMART) Existential 11

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+ Discovery Education Video library 80,000 video clips Tied to state and national standards Teacher Center Calendar Lesson Plan Library Classroom Tools Assignment Builder Quiz Builder Writing Prompt Builder Professional Development Discovery Education Webinar Series Passcode: 0f84 – 7f6a SHS Registration

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+ Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is the term used to describe the use of web technology to create, share, and collaborate with others. Web 2.0 applications allow users to do more than just retrieve information. Web 2.0 allows users to participate and interact. Web 1.0 vs. 2.0 Comparison Chart Web 1.0Web 2.0 ReadingWriting CompaniesCommunities Client-serverPeer-to-peer Home pages/Personal websitesBlogs PortalsRSS (Really Simple Syndication) WiresWireless OwningSharing NetscapeGoogle Dial-upBroadband Hardware costsBandwidth costs Britannica OnlineWikipedia Content management systemsWikis Directories (taxonomy)Tagging (“folksonomy”) Read onlyRead/write/collaborate Individual intelligenceCollective intelligence StaticDynamic Commercial/ProprietaryOpen source/shared

Web 2.0 is Here! 16

Web 2.0 A to Z 17

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+ Create your own social network Can join other nings that interest you Ning.com Free

+ Google Docs Edit anytime, from anywhere Choose who can access your docs Share changes in real time Free Collaborative Creation, Accessibility, & Peer Review

+ Schedule an event Schedule a meeting Determine the best time/date for all participants Create a poll Free No registration required

+ Real time collaboration for the web Shared workspace with others Chat Draw Add content from anywhere Free Registration is required

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Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools 25

Useful examples Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised version Tic Tac Toe Integrate to Differentiate Examples Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking 26

+ Animoto Create 30 second videos from still photos with music Really easy for students Animoto Example 10 th grade student Animoto.com Free

+ Create-a-Graph Create a graph to represent information visually Bar Pie Line Area XY Create A Graph Free

+ Inquiry-based Learning Critical Information Literacy Protocol RADCAB-Online Information Evaluation RADCAB Relevancy Appropriateness Detail Currency Authority Bias

Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools 30 enhance-your-personal-learning-environment enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

Mind Meister – Zoom in 31

Mind Meister Web 2.0 Tools 32 enhance-your-personal-learning-environment enhance-your-personal-learning-environment

Differentiated Instruction Think for a moment about varying the following in your assignments: CONTENT PROCESS PRODUCT Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the CONTENT Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PROCESS Discuss with a partner ONE EXAMPLE of how to differentiate the PRODUCT 33

+ Questions ?

+ Presentation is available at: urces.cfm and on the shared directory under: Brinson/classnotes/techstrategyresources urces.cfm