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What is differentiation?

Carol Ann Tomlinson - "...differentiation means giving students multiple options for taking in information (1999)..."

Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design

Or is it... this?

A few key principles to use when developing technology enhanced lessons:

• Recognition of diverse learners: The students we teach have diverse levels of expertise and experience with reading, writing, thinking, problem solving, and speaking
• Ongoing, formative assessment: Teachers continually assess to identify students’ strengths and areas of need...
• Group Work: Students collaborate in pairs and small groups whose membership changes as needed.
• Problem Solving: The focus in classrooms that differentiate instruction is on issues and concepts rather than “the book” or the chapter.
• Choice: Teachers offer students choice in their reading and writing experiences and in the tasks and projects they complete.

What do thought leaders in educational technology think?

Differentiation is essential to student success (NETS-T 1 and 2)

Horizon Report identified Mobile and Apps as a short term time-to-adoption.

Mobile learning + social Learning from Bb

From Chalkboards to Tablets

Student Top 10

Before you start selecting sites:

Do you have a ATNAPFTS?

Where are you curating your collection of learning objects? Mightybell as one example.

Is the site you are sending your learners to viewable on their device? iPad? Mobile Device? GoMo.

What do you think your students understand/know? KWL

What do you want your students to do?

What are OER?

Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

What are the top OER sites for K-12?

Online Resources

• Library of Congress - teacher site
• Digital Public Library of America - DPLA
• Michigan Electronic Library - MORE
• PBS Learning Media and the new partner Teachers Domain
• Thinkfinity - standards aligned resources

Text materials

• CK-12 - http://www.ck12.org – Over 90 Common Core aligned ebooks in various formats. Highly customizable.
• Boundless - https://www.boundless.com/textbooks/ - OER introductory textbooks and study tools.
• Gutenberg Project - http://www.gutenberg.org/ - 42,000 public domain texts and classical literature.

Courseware and other materials

• Open Course Library - http://opencourselibrary.org/ 
• Utah Open High School - http://openhighschoolcourses.org/ - Free Moodle courses that can be imported and used as a framework for your own classroom
• Hippocampus - http://hippocampus.org/ - high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects for High School and College students.
• Curriki - http://www.curriki.org/welcome/ -  the Curriki collection included 46,000+ primary, secondary and teacher training resources across all subject areas, with a particular focus on K-12 STEM.
• OER Commons - http://www.oercommons.org - freely accessible online library that provides a web-based infrastructure for teachers and others to search and discover OER materials.
• Connexions - http://cnx.org/  - repository and collaborative platform of educational materials that breaks down larger collections.

Self directed mobile learning

Instagrok - interactive map of related topics

Studyblue - mobile flashcards

Duolingo - language learning app for all devices

Other handheld computing sites

Learning in hand - Tony Vincent

MobileReach Podcast - shownotes

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