Transcript Differentiated Instruction and Some Technology to

Teacher users vs. Student users
How do you [adult/teacher] use
the Internet?
How do they [child/student] use
the Internet?
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The youth of today are inundated with [digital
content] that has the potential to extend literacy and
allow them to actively participate with a variety of
media.
Gunter, G. A. (2004). Video in the classroom: learning objects or
objects of learning?. Association for Educational
Communications and Technology , 27, 7.
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Example - Read news differently?
Web 2.0
stuff!
Today’s Web 2.0
user doesn’t go to
the news…he/she
has it come to
him/her!
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Fits beautifully into differentiated
instruction because it provides
options!
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Web 2.0, a phrase coined by Al Gore in 2004, refers to a
perceived or proposed second generation of Internetbased services—such as social networking sites, wikis,
communication tools, and folksonomies — that
emphasize online collaboration and sharing among
users.
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It’s also called the
read/write Web.
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What Web 2.0 hints at is…
 An improved World Wide Web
 Not just information warehouse
 People contribute and create
 Communication and collaboration
 Students can become…
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Publishers – wikis
DJs - podcasting
Experts – wikis or blogs
Broadcasters - podcasts
Editors – blogs, wikis,
Networked (socially) – MySpace like tools
Content reviewers – wikipedia…sharing and developing
Syndicated – RSS content out to everywhere!
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Student choice…tiered tasks
(technology products)
Shakespeare Project – the influences
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Table format in Word
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Two: Influence Web
PowerPoint
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One: Influence Chart
Three: Influence Pyramid
Inspiration
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Easily create simple Web sites - instead of asking students (or
groups of students) to create Web-based content on Web sites,
have them post the content into wikis. They're much less focused
on the technical aspects of creating Web sites and much more
focused on creating/developing content...which is seriously what
we assess kids on anyway.
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Project development with peer review - the collaborative nature of
wikis allow kids to work together. There's novel concept...students
working together and collaborating. Check it out! I also saw this wiki
somewhere along the way. It's a collaborative writing project...check out
the use of the wiki when interpreting Keats' An Ode to Grecian Urn.
Students add their commentary or interpretation on lines within the
text...awesome!
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Group authoring - One of the coolest things sites is
http://wikibooks.org/. It's a collaborative initiative to create books.
Check it out! Imagine creating our own textbooks that meet the needs
of our own students...now that's innovative!
Track a group project - the nature of the wiki is that it's collaborative.
What's even better is that you can track the collaborative changes that
are made! Follow a document as it is edited...track the changes and
communicate with the team members. There is even a discussion
board piece to them that allows for the team members to actually talk
about it! So nice!
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Data Collection The wiki best suited for this right now is JotSpot
(http://www.jot.com/), which has a data collection tool you can install
with just a few clicks.
It's recently been acquired by Google so bear with it as it is migrated
over to Google.
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Review classes & teachers - just imagine the ability to use wikis as
review assignments, remediation, enrichment...the list goes on!
Presentations - wikis could be the next level of presentation! Use it as a
guide for visitors to move through your content.
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Student choice…unit menus
Earth Science Class Learning Meteorology
 Essential
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What are the causes and effects of heat?
What are the causes and effects of currents?
 Thematic
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Questions
Unit Questions
How do convection currents cause winds?
What are the patterns of the phenomenon
knows as the sea breeze? Why does the sea
breeze occur?
 Weather
report, written report, detailed maps,
a wiki!
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