Differentiating Instruction

with TechnologyColleen Greenwood

and Robert Hardina

Objectives•Learn various strategies to provide differentiated instruction with technology.

•Explore a variety of tools that can be used to meet the learning needs of your students.

Differentiation is

doing "whatever it takes to ensure that struggling and advanced learners, students with varied cultural heritages, and children with different backgrounds experiences all grow as much as they possibly can each day, each week, and throughout the year."

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Four Main Ways to Differentiate:

ContentProcessProduct

Learning Enviroment

Differentiate by..1.Content•Reading Materials•Curriculum adjustment•Reading buddies

Differentiate by...2. Process•Tiered Activies•Manipulatives•Personal Agendas

Differentiate by...3. Product•Choice•Activities matching to learning styles/strengths

Differentiate by...4. Learning Environments•Varied groups•Varied activity levels•Routines

CuriosityIt is a curiosity of teaching that no two days are alike, but, if we are not careful, all the days can take on a deadening sameness. We must remember that we have every opportunity to transform ourselves and our practice, just as we have every opportunity to stagnate, remaining much the same teachers we were when we began.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Expect that there will be issues.•Stay calm•Trouble shoot•Use the students as a resource•Accept it•Don't give up on technology as a tool to instruction and learning

Technology...Cameras•video•still

iPodsIndividual response devices•phones and texting

ComputersInternet

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