Leveling the Playing Field

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Differentiating Instruction Using Technology

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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

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

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