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Differentiation with Technology
What is Differentiation?Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs.
Whenever a you reach out to an individual or small group to vary your teaching in order to create the best learning experience possible, you are differentiating instruction.
Things that can, and should be differentiated...
Content Process Products
Differentiating Content
The material students are expected master.
Different students in your class will access different materials that are most appropriate for their readiness at the depth that is right for them.
All are working towards mastery of the same standard.
Differentiating Process
These are the learning activities that take place in your class and connect the content to the learner. Differentiating the process takes into account:
Learning style differences.
Multiple intelligences.
Multiple formats for students to access the material to be learned - Options are important!
Differentiating Products
The evidence students produce to demonstrate mastery.
OPTIONS are key
Let’s look a little deeper into each of theseand the different ways that technology can help us achieve that differentiation
Differentiating Content
Reading levels
Sometimes, all students can understand the concepts, but reading ability is a barrier.
Complexity
Students may require varying degrees of depth to their understanding of concepts
Readiness
Students may lack the background knowledge necessary (including the vocabulary) to engage in higher level questions about a concept.
Differentiating Content - Reading levelsProviding rich reading experiences for all
students.
Newsela
https://newsela.com/
Articles searchable by content, each at different reading levels and lexiles.
Differentiating Content - Reading levelsProviding rich reading experiences for all
students. Smithsonian Tween Tribune
http://tweentribune.com/
Also searchable by content, each at different reading levels and lexiles.
Differentiating Content - Reading levelsProviding rich reading experiences for all
students.
BirdbrainScienceBirdbrainHistory
https://www.birdbrainscience.com/ https://www.birdbrainhistory.com/
After a diagnostic, any article you assign is presented at the appropriate reading level
Differentiating Content - Reading accessibility
Speak-ItChrome Extension
Install the extension and have any website read to your students!
Differentiating Content - Complexity
https://www.tes.com/lessons
BlendspaceCreate different paths for students.
Add different presentations and content.
Differentiating Content - Complexity
http://www.lessonpaths.com/
LessonPathsCreate different paths for students.
Add different presentations and content.
Differentiating Content - Readiness (Vocab)
https://quizlet.com
QuizletCreate different paths for students.
Add different presentations and content.
Differentiating Content - Readiness (Background Knowledge)
https://edpuzzle.com
EdpuzzleMake any video your lesson.
Crop, add questions, comments, audio notes.
Differentiating Process
Organization
Students often lack the organization skills necessary to retain ideas. (losing papers, materials, access)
Response time
How can tech help the:
shy
slow processing
physical impediments
Reteaching
Students may need more practice to:
attain mastery
retain mastery
Differentiating Process - Organization
GAfE
Collaboration, access anywhere. Any documents can be uploaded and resides in the cloud.
Google Classroom
Creates folders for the students, and ability for the teacher to “send” assignments.
Differentiating Process - Organization
Edmodo
You can send assignments, grade, upload documents, provide links, etc.
Create small groups within your classes.
Students have a backpack where they can collect materials
https://edmodo.com
Differentiating Process - Response time
Back Channels
Create an appropriate space for students who need more time to process or that may be too shy to share out loud.
Can remain open for those “I wish I had thought of this before” times. https://padlet.c
om/
https://todaysmeet.com/
Differentiating Process - ReteachingYou’ve pre-assessed, taught, done formative assessed and now you know some students need further instruction or simply need to revisit the content
Make use of some of the technology tools we have seen.
Add an appropriate edpuzzle video to your padlet.
Embed your presentation or a video you took while teaching/created afterwards to a blendspace or lesson-path.
Differentiating Process - ReteachingYou’ve pre-assessed, taught, done formative assessed and now you know some students need further instruction or simply need to revisit the content
https://tackk.com
https://www.hstry.co/
http://app.wizer.me/
Differentiating Products
Multiple means of expression and action.
Many of the tools we have already seen can be used by students to organize and create their products.
Differentiating Products - Organization
Keep all notes w/links in a Google Document (or within a Drive Folder).
Students can create a Padlet page and post all their work/links/etc.
Students can create Folders in their Edmodo backpack to keep all their work for a project.
Anything that is not digital can be digitized through pictures.
Differentiating Products - Choice Boards
https://www.thinglink.com/
Differentiating Products - Product Creators