Matt Monjan

Incorporating unitedstreaming Into Differentiated Instruction

Students Learn Differently Todayan 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)

Student

Readiness/Ability

Interests/Talents

Learning Profile

Prior Knowledge

Curriculum

State and Local Standards & Benchmarks(Standards Search Feature)

Content

What teacher plans to teachProcess

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

http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html

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

More tools to reach different learners

• Photo Story or MovieMaker (free from Microsoft)• Songs/Audio files iPhoto or iMovie from (free from Apple)• iPods and Pod casts in the classroom• Cell Phones – yes Cell Phones!• Closed Captions• Blogs• Wikies (live on-line resources that you/students can edit)

– teacher wikies• Writing Prompts with unitedstreaming images• Websites – unitedstreaming’s Atlas and the Builders – of

course!

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

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 willrich

Will Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

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 Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

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 Richardsonhttp://www.weblogg-ed.com/

Bottom line…

Here’s a way to modelNext 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 1963

5. Watch cell phones suddenly disappear

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?

Explore your world with out leaving your classroom!

Use the Atlas as an Activator

unitedstreaming Audio – Song + Power PointDE 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!

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 PM 1:15 PM 1:30 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 PM

Began Trip Found 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 PPT1. 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

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