Post on 15-Jan-2015
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Salisbury Township School DistrictAllentown, Pennsylvania
Jennifer L. Aponick, Supervisor of Special Education Jennifer Brinson, Instructional Coach
One Size Does Not Fit All: Fostering 21st Century Learning
+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
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+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
+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
+What does DIFFERENTIATION look like?
+How can this benefit my
students?
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
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
+ADD/ADHD
A student with attention deficit disorder applies strategies for coping with the syndrome by gathering and organizing information during the research process.
+Blind
A blind student uses screen reading and voice recognition software to research and write a narrative essay from the point of view of a blind hurricane survivor
+Dyslexic
A dyslexic student who has never liked school becomes the class’s foremost expert on desktop publishing and looks forward to a career in graphic design.
+Math Disability
A student who dislikes math because of computation difficulties uses a spreadsheet application to conduct a sophisticated analysis of survey data and creates charts that illustrate relationships among the data.
+Cerebral Palsy
An augmentative communication device allows a student with cerebral palsy to lead a group of students in the design and production of a newsletter on career opportunities for people with disabilities.
+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 1.0 Web 2.0
Reading Writing
Companies Communities
Client-server Peer-to-peer
Home pages/Personal websites Blogs
Portals RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Wires Wireless
Owning Sharing
Netscape Google
Dial-up Broadband
Hardware costs Bandwidth costs
Britannica Online Wikipedia
Content management systems Wikis
Directories (taxonomy) Tagging (“folksonomy”)
Read only Read/write/collaborate
Individual intelligence Collective intelligence
Static Dynamic
Commercial/Proprietary Open source/shared
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+Web 2.0
Wikispaces
blogger.com
edublogs.org
RSS Feeds
skype.com
Google docs
twitter.com
surveymonkey.com
ustream.com
delicious.com
ning.com
Diigo.com
+Wikis
+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
www.discoveryeducation.com
Passcode: 0f84 – 7f6a
SHS Registration
Annual site license: K-8: $1570 9-12: $2095
+Discovery Educator
Network
Educator Resources Browse by subject or
grade
Blogs National State
Forums
Special Events & Promos
100,000 educators
Sharing and networking
community.discoveryeducation.com/
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Interested in becoming a member? It’s free!
Click here for information about the application process
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+Google Docs
Edit anytime, from anywhere
Choose who can access your docs
Share changes in real time
www.docs.google.com
Free
Collaborative Creation, Accessibility, & Peer Review
+BrainPop
Educational website with short Flash-based movies for students in grades K-12
All closed captioned
Multi-modal
Interactive
Motivational
BrainPop Jr. (K-3)
BrainPop (3-12)
BrainPop Educators
Username: case
Password: guest
Active until November 7
Free Trial
Classroom Subscription: $195
+ Animoto
Create 30 second videos from still photos with music
Really easy for students
Animoto Example 10th grade student
Animoto.com
Free
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Create your own social network
Can join other nings that interest you
Ning.com
Free
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Schedule an event Schedule a meeting Determine the best
time/date for all participants
Create a poll
Doodle.com
Free
No registration required
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Concept mapping and interior design tool
Flowcharts, diagrams, floorplans, and technical drawings
www.gliffy.com
Free for 5 maps
Registration is required
+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 Relevancy Appropriateness Detail Currency Authority Bias
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Questions ?
Jennifer Aponickjaponick@stsd.org
Skype: jenniferaponick
Lynn Fuini-Hettenlfuinihetten@stsd.org
Skype: lynnfuinihetten
Nora Perron-Jonesnperronjones@stsd.org
Skype: noraperronjones