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Title: Technology as a Tool to Differentiate Instruction


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Technology as aTool toDifferentiate Instruction
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Content Objective Participants will become
familiar with strategies and ideas to use
technology to meet the academic needs of all
students with a specific focus on the gifted and
talented.
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  • Language Objective
  • Participants will
  • Discuss the benefits and challenges of technology
  • Categorize and share websites in a del.icio.us
    account with gifted cluster teachers to meet the
    academic needs of gifted and talented.

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What is Technology?
  • Computers
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Digital cameras and camcorders
  • Robotics
  • Scanners and Document Cameras
  • SmartBoards
  • Audio-visual (movies, podcasts, etc.)
  • Voice recorders iPod with recorder
  • AlphaSmart word processor
  • Other . . . .

What do we have in our toolbox?
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Why Technology?
  • More than ever, individuals value the importance
    of technology changes in education.
  • Knowledge economy
  • nearly 90 percent of the upcoming workforce will
    utilize computers within their working
    environments
  • Experiences outside school are already
    differentiated through technology they are
    fully engaged in learning.

How Does Avondale Measure Up?
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Think - Pair - Share
Benefits
Challenges
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Benefits
  • Streamline student learning
  • Motivating/engaging
  • More personalized flexible
  • information available on almost any interest they
    have

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Challenges
  • Difficult for teachers to adjust (paradigm shift)
  • Difficult to keep up (fear of unknown)

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Knocking Down the Barriers
  • Start Small
  • Digital Natives (Prensky) can be a resource
  • Model being a learner
  • Learn from them
  • Shows learning new things is not threatening

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Engage Me or Enrage Me!
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Technology Meeting their needs
  • Readiness
  • Interests
  • Learning Profile

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Del.icio.us
  • Setting up a resource network
  • http//del.icio.us/foxroxaz
  • Instructions (Link to how to here)

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How do I start?
  • Daily/Weekly Starters
  • Interactive Activities
  • Internet Scavenger Hunts
  • Technology enhanced projects
  • Webquests
  • To name a few

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What can I do daily or weekly?
  • What's the weather forecast?
  • This day in history? (Current events)
  • Who's birthday is it?
  • What happened in history?
  • How is the stock doing?
  • Brain Teasers
  • Word of the Day
  • Check out Daily on my delicious for lots of
    ideas.

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How can I connect to each subject area?
  • Connect to reading, writing, math, science,
    social studies, art, music, health and physical
    education.
  • Check out the district resources
  • my del.icio.us of the Web folder for lots of
    ideas.

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What project would help me reach outside my
classroom?
  • Share through surface mail, email, web, blogs,
    wikis, and more.
  • Teacher Tap Online Collaborative Projects.
    Brainstorm projects that involve connecting with
    another classroom.
  • Check out teacher tap the district resources
  • my del.icio.us of the Web folder for lots of
    ideas.

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How can I promote the love of learning through
technology?
  • Learn, just for fun
  • Ask questions, seek answers, allow flexibility
  • Use the teachable momentwithin reason
  • Go to 42eXplore.
  • Go to Teacher Tap Virtual Field Trips and
    Museums
  • Consider ways to create the "teachable moment" in
    your classroom to go beyond the standards.

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How can technology help students solve problems?
  • Design activities that include
  • Introduction/Topic/Scenario
  • Task or Activity
  • Process or Procedures
  • Web Resources
  • Product/Outcome/Conclusion
  • Go to Teacher Tap WebQuests or the district site
  • Design a simple WebQuest in Microsoft Word.

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How can my students share their projects with
others?
  • Artwork
  • Poems and Stories
  • Science Projects
  • Oral Histories
  • Timelines
  • Biographies
  • Go to Literature Ladders and Teacher Tap or the
    district site. Identify a project you might join.

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Looking back
  • How does this help me with gifted learners?
  • Use technology for anchor activities
  • Individualized practice of skills (Independent
    study)
  • Learning centers
  • Creative projects

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Quadrants
  • Begin to think about ways to give students
    choices
  • Tier activities by readiness, interest, learning
    profile
  • Consider stations/centers
  • Consider learning profile testing

Quadrant 1 GP flashcards Tech Animal Legs IP
Create and illustrate a 1 digit x 1 digit
multiplication problem.
Quadrant 2 GP Multiplying with cubes. (graph
paper) Tech Table Mountain IP Write the
equation and illustrate a 2 digit x 1 digit
multiplication problem.
Quadrant 4 GP 3 digit by 2 digit Tech Mad math
or Amble web IP Project- to demonstrate a
multiplication equation at least 2 digits by 2
digits (be creative)
Quadrant 3 GP 2 digit by 2 digit activity
sheet Tech Mad math or Amble web IP Project
create your own IP Challenge yourself
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Lets revisit
  • Daily teaching
  • Projects
  • Anchor Activities
  • Extension Activities

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Evaluation Homework
  • Try

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Backdrops - These are full sized backdrops, just
scale them up! - Can be Copy-Pasted out of
Templates for use anywhere!
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Technology the Learning Profile
Projects/ Activities
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