Matt Monjan

Discovery Education streaming and Differentiated Instruction – How to Engage Every Learner in Your Classroom

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!

Let’s meet my godson Zack

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

DE streaming 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!

Songs that help teach the English language

• Learning Our Long Vowels (02:56)Long vowels say their names.© 2005 Twin Sisters

• Learning Our Short Vowels (01:47)Learn about short vowel sounds. © 2005 Twin Sisters

• Letters “c” and “g” Have Two Sounds (04:48)In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft.

• Q and U Are Friends (01:13) A song about words that start with QU © 2005 Twin Sisters

• Rhyming Word Rule (02:30)• Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the beginning. © 2005

Twin Sisters • Silly Sally’s Sister (00:29)

A tongue twister with the letter S © 2005 Twin Sisters • Singing the Consonant Sounds (04:36)

A song about words that start with B,C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z © 2005 Twin Sisters

• The Alphabet Swing (01:21)Sing the letters of the alphabet.

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

Use Discovery Education streaming images and create a voicethread – www.voicethread.com

http://voicethread.com/share/42329/

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?

Finding CC files

Log into unitedstreaming.com and click on the Advanced Search link

Scroll down and click in the box next to “Include only Closed Captioned Titles”

Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie

• First right-click on the blue download icon, choose “Save Target As” and then place it in a folder on your computer

• Then repeat the process, this time right-clicking on the “CC” icon

• Adjust the CC settings within your Windows Media Player – CC settings

Take that one step further

• Using the Advanced Search feature, find a video that is in both English and Spanish and is CC

• Download the English CC and the Spanish video• Play the video in class

A Really Neat CC Example

The Bite Strength of Sharks a unitedstreaming video clip

Here’s how we did that

Closed Captioning Trick• Font Size

– Open the CC file in a text editing program like Wordpad or Notepad

– Locate the line of code that indicates “font size”

– Increase the font size from 10 to 30 (or whatever you prefer)

– Save the CC file

CC

10 pt

30 pt

CC

Create a Writing Prompt

A writing prompt is a tool located inside DE streaming’s Teacher Center

You can tie in imagery + text to scaffold your instruction and/or create a unique writing assignment

Examples of Teachers’ Work

PowerPoint + DE streaming audio

DE streaming video and images + Adobe Premier Elements, and audio

Discovery Atlas, Google Earth + Adobe Premier Elements, green screens

While many schools restrict access to blogs, WIKI’s etc…

…others embrace it.

Wait a minute…couldn’t my students use their cell phones with Gcast too?You bet! Check this out –

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Explore your world with out leaving your classroom!

Use the Atlas as an Activator

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

Giezi My Notes• 1st grade Reading level• Grew up on a farm in Puerto

Rico, loves the outdoors• Auditory learner, prefers to

work independently

Action Plan• Content = Jeff Corwin video• Process = Learning center

assignment with closed captioning enabled

• Product = Short quiz or Writing Prompt linked to assignment

Michelle My Notes• Grade-level reader (above

grade-level in Spanish)• Enjoys reading stories about

kids her age• Expresses herself best through

her writing

Action Plan• Content = Short stories (e.g.,

Chicken Soup for the Children’s Soul)

• Process = Customized writing prompts (English and Spanish)

• Product = Digital portfolio of journal entries

Ebony My Notes• Excellent reader• Wants to be a news

reporter• Does not test well, but

loves to work on projects

Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =

Daniel My Notes• Advanced in all subject

areas• Wants to write, produce

and direct movies• Artistic and creative

Action Plan• Content =• Process =• Product =

Using DE streaming Tools to Reach the 21st Century Mind

Collaborative Projects using DE streaming editable movies, cell phones and cameras!

Displaying DE streaming videos on TVs and LCD projectors, whiteboards, etc

Projecting DE streaming math or close captioned videos, articles, calendars and images on interactive white boards

Creating learning centers or labs with DE tools like the Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builders

Making it portable – DE On-The-Go with iPods

Tying DE streaming into teacher/class wikis, blogs, websites

Who will help me connect these tools to my students?

… a global community of educators passionate

about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating and networking…

DEN in Review

• 2 years ago…we launched the DEN• Today

– Over 26,800 Discovery Educators Worldwide

– 2500 STAR Discovery Educators in 46 States

– Over 14,000 Events Reported

– Reaching Over 350,000 Educators

– Imagine Number of Students Impacted!

Contact Info

Matt Monjan

Account Manager

Matt_monjan@discovery.com

240-338-9388

www.discoveryeducation.com