leveling the playing field
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Differentiating Instruction Using TechnologyTRANSCRIPT
The Students That Make Up Our Classroom
• General Education • ELL• Gifted • Speech and Language• Learning Disabled • ADD• ADHD • Emotionally Disturbed • Spectrum Children • Children with Physical Disabilities
• They’re auditory learners!
• They’re kinesthetic learners!
• They’re visual learners!
• They’re social learners!
• They’re kids who need to move, talk, listen, interact, collaborate, socialize!
• DI
• UDL
• RTI
•PBL•NCLB •IDEA •IEP
Language Arts
• NYS ELA Standards– Reading – Reading blogs –Wikis -
Websites– Writing – Collaborative Writing Projects –
Google Doc & Blogs– Speaking - Podcasting– Listening - VoiceThreads
– Don’t forget test prep
• History – Wagon’s West - Google Earth• Geography – Artix – Wiki • Civics/Citizenship/Government –
Oovoo Debate & Cover it Live • Economics – Excel Spreadsheets
• Did we forget the test?
• Analysis, Inquiry and Design – Scratch • Science, Physical Setting –
Comparing Hemispheres Wiki • Living Environment – Room w/ a View • Interconnectedness – Time Zone Wiki • Problem Solving –Interactives
• Test, what test?
Students can design and analyze their own creations in Scratch.
Smart Notebook Interactives
Discovery Science Interactives
• Analysis, Inquiry and Design – Scratch & Google Sketchup
• Problem Solving – Voicethread Mathcasts • Number and Numeration – How-to podcasts • Operations – Screencasts • Modeling/Multiple Representation –
Phys. Ed. Classroom Connection Screencasts• Measurement – Data Collection –
Survey Monkey • Uncertainty – Online Stock Market Game • Patterns and Functions – Interactive Math Sites
Analysis, Inquiry and Design – Scratch & Google SketchUp
Problem Solving – Voicethread Mathcasts
Numbers and Numeration - Podcasts
Operations – Screencasts
Modeling/Multiple Representation –
Phys. Ed. Classroom Connection Screencasts
ScratchGoogle SketchUp
Measurement – Data Collection – Survey Monkey
Uncertainty – Online Stock Market Game
Patterns and Functions – Interactive Math Sites