Saturday, April 22, 2023

You must be the change you wish to see in the world

- Mahatma Ghandi

ALTUDL - Bringing ALTUDL - Bringing Technology Enhanced Technology Enhanced Differentiation to the Differentiation to the Classroom atClassroom at

Saturday, April 22, 2023

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Today’s Plan

8:45 - 9:00 Munchies and Coffee9:00 - 9:15 Review of Project and

Individual Proposals9:15 - 9:45 What ‘should’ we be doing with

digital technologies?9:45 - 10:30 UDL and the idea of ‘flexible’

media10:30 - 10:45 Break10:45 - 11:45 Where do we get help?11:45 - 12:30 Lunch12:30 - 2:30 Exploration and ‘play’; proposal

re-draft (tweaking)2:30 - 3:00 Where to from here?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

… LIKE DRINKING FROM A FIRE HOSE!!

Session #3 - What are the Technologies?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

• E-Portfolios• Allowing greater differentiation by providing students with additional options for

deciphering Shakespearean text - ICT used to present a portion of a text with hyper-links to audio, visual, and text information

• Using oral, print, visual, and multimedia to construct meaning from text and context• Using Inspiration, Dragon Naturally Speaking and ‘advanced’ PowerPoint to better

prepare for writing SS Essay• Exploring and understanding the principles of Photo journalism in order to produce

pictures to accompany news articles; interpreting, evaluating and creating visual text• Using ICT to aid in information gathering and communicating of final product; e-mail,

blogging, instant messaging, - students will select means of representation using technology of choice - web ages, PowerPoint, short film, digital photo essay, …

• Representing poetry using technology that addresses visual, auditory, tactile and oral abilities

• Spanish use through development of a website which provides access to internet sites and relevant activities (using voice recognition software)

• Address multimodal presentations and engagement of novel study in the classroom.

Central’s Projects (as Ron understands them :-)

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

SIMULATIONS, MICROWORLDS

AND GAMES

Posing new problems;

Creating rules: Analyzing

Consequences

Creating and working in simulated

environments

Fighter Pilots;

Surgeons; Astronauts;

Police Officers ...

all use simulations

Becoming intellectually

and emotionally

engaged

Exploiting the power of play and

of the imagination

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

SPREADSHEETS

Analyzing and

interpreting

Exploring Relationships; Forecasting; reckoning

Probabilities;Sharing data on line

AuthoringThinking with data; revising

hypothesis; receiving instant

feedback to powerful questions

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

DATA BASES

Classifying Things

Effective Collection of Data.

Working collaboratively to determine categories or

fields, to decide what data will count and to

collect effectively

Analyzing relationships

Looking for Commonalities and Differences

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

MULTI-MEDIA (create

by using many of

our senses

Imagining

Developing functional literacies

Authoring

Composing

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

HYPERMEDIA (composing text where ideas are related in non-linear ways)

Using structure as part of meaning

Linking various forms of media - words,

pictures, sounds ...

Finding links

between (among)

ideas

Establishing fundamental relationships

Working in places of

experiences and

possiblities

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Clifford and Friesen; (2002)

SYNCHRONOUS AND

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS (experiencing diverse

perspectives and points of view)

Chatting

E-mail

Collaborative Group Work

Parallel Working

Environments

Collaboration Across Time and Space

Real-time communication

Videoconferencing

Team Work

Discussion Forums

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Communicating

Solving Problems

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Researching

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Inquiring

Making Decisions

What Should Students be doing with technology?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

What are the tools?

Word Processing

Email

Internet Browser

Spreadsheet

Saturday, April 22, 2023

• Multi-Media Applications (including:)

• Digital Photography • Digital Video• Audio

• Database • Clipart/Media clips • Draw/Paint/Graphics

Applications• Social Software

What are the tools?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Differentiating Teaching and Learning

Information and Communication Technologies – a way of …

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Versatility

* Many formants – text, still image, sound, moving image, combinations of text and video, sound in text, video in text …

* Offers users a chance to work in PREFERRED medium(s) or INTERACT with multiple mediums simultaneously. i.e. - a speech – text, speech, video in any combination

Transformability

* Same content to be displayed in multiple ways * i.e. web pages – users can alter size of text, turn audio off or on, turn off graphics, etc. * Cross-media transformations – speech recognition software for example; * Tools can be embedded in web browsers

Ability to be marked

* Html is a ‘mark-up’ language allowing to differentiate among paragraphs, headings, titles etc. * XML – broadens the range of options allowing more ‘tags’ thus altering flexibility * The metaphor for marking might be a hi-liter pen; with option of hiding it or showing it and allowing

different users to mark different things

Ability to be networked

* Joining one piece of media to another using hyperlinks * i.e. direct access to dictionaries and thesaurus * i.e. prompts, electronic organizers or visual organizers

Flexible Media

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Flexible media allows students to venture down different pathways to the same destination, the same instructional goal. The use of text, audio, visual and interactive representations of information can be orchestrated to effectively meet the needs of students ….

FLEXIBLE MEDIA

Media Smarts

Saturday, April 22, 2023

• To help select the most suitable medium or use of multiple media simultaneously

* To convert material from one medium to another on the fly

* To modify the appearance of information within one medium

* To delve more deeply or connect laterally to other concepts through links

* To communicate with many different people through networked computers

Listen to an audio version of this text.

FLEXIBLE MEDIA

Saturday, April 22, 2023

The ability to use flexible media in a variety of mediums and to then repurpose the same media in an alternative way allows for student-centered learning experiences that are unique and purposeful.

Flexible Media

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Take a moment to consider the textbook. Its pages … covered in text and the occasional diagram or photograph. Now envision the text, diagrams and images as malleable. During a discussion a teacher can display the diagram as a part of the learning process with a projector and then later email it with an assignment to each of his or her students. Two weeks later, that same diagram could be used in the newsletter for parents and perhaps again as students create a multimedia presentation to demonstrate their understanding. When we consider diversity, flexible media becomes essential.

There Ought to be A Law …

Flexible Media

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Word Processing Tools Database Tools Spreadsheet Tools

Videoconferencing Tools Multimedia Tools  Web Development Tools

Assistive Technologies

Included are those applications and tools that teachers use within their classrooms: Telus 2Learn identifies the tools as …

The Role of Flexible Instructional Media in Differentiation

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Social software are tools that allows people to connect with others to share ideas and collaborate. The distinguishing feature of this type of software is the networked/connected nature of communication - a break from linear communication like telephones, email, etc.

Blogs and Wikis

Social Bookmarking

VoiP - SKYPE

Podcasting

Social Software -The Evolution (revolution?) continues!

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Any learning environment should:

* Have a place for learner expression (blog/portfolio) * Have a place for content interaction (LMS' have this)* Have a place to connect with other learners (discussion forum - LMS' have this) * Have a place to connect the thoughts of other learners in a personal, meaningful way - i.e.

using RSS and then brought back into the "learner expression tool" * Have a place to dialogue with the instructor (email, VoIP, etc. - D2L has some of this) * Have a place to dialogue with gurus (apprentice) - the heart of online communities is the

mess of varying skills and expertise. Gurus are people currently in industry or established practitioners of the organizing theme of the community. LMS limit the interaction to learner and instructor.

* Have a place for learning artifacts of those who've gone before - i.e. content management capabilities accessible and managed by the learner. Tools like Furl, del.icio.us are examples of personal knowledge management (PKM) tools.

* Be modularized so additional functionality and tools can be added based on what learners want or need...a bricolage of course tools - based on open standards - allow for incorporation of new approaches as needed.

What is needed in a Learning Environment?

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Some tutorials• Florida South Coast University• Telus 2Learn

Word Processing Tools

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Some tutorials• Florida South Coast University• Telus 2Learn

Spreadsheet Tools

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Multimedia Tools From 2Learn

Power Point Tutorials

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Web Development Tools

Telus 2Learn

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Distributed Learning ‘Tools’• Learning Objects Repositories• Student Mail• CBE Libraries• Communities of Practice• Desire@Learn• Projects and Innovations• CBE Staffroom

Saturday, April 22, 2023

I would happily send my children to a school that takes differences among children seriously, that shares knowledge among differences with children and parents, that encourages children to assume responsibility for their own learning, and that presents materials in such a way that each child has the maximum opportunity to master those materials and to show others and themselves what they have learned and understood.

Howard Gardner (1999) Intelligence reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century; (pp. 91–92)