Differentiated+Instruction+and+Assessment+with+Technology

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Learn how this award-winning teacher uses podcasts, digital movie-making, a YouTube channel, wikis, blogs, and other tools to involve all of the learning styles of her students and create repositories of information to document and demonstrate learning in her technology classroom. She will also share best practices from educators in other subject areas who are also using these tools to teach ======

Presenters: Victoria Davis -Flat Classroom Projects/Cool Cat Teacher, LLC

 * Slides and links posted at: http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com
 * Victoria's blog: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
 * Not learning disabilities, but learning differences :) Terrible to label kids in the K-4 age range
 * Power of 3: Next three things you want to do only! As you implement these one by one, update your list.
 * Embrace technology that builds on principles that you **already** know are **effective.**
 * Cooperative learning groups: no more than 4 or learning goes down.
 * View this age of technological innovation as an opportunity to cut out what is ineffective and what doesn't work
 * There are **safe** ways to do what some consider dangerous; it's not about the technology, it's about what the technology lets you **do**!
 * It is more important how people FEEL about the technology than what they do with it. Should be small bits as they go along, not huge amounts in a small amount of time.
 * Learning capital: Created when you pilot or implement new technology
 * Interoperability: an ecological approach to technology; thinking about the interrelationships among different communication technologies, the culture communities...the activities they support (McArthur Report)
 * Teach the tools ONCE then let the students use what suits the task...and themselves...the best
 * Deliver using __dual encoding__.
 * The Classroom Car analogy (see Slideshare for all slides: **http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/differentiated-instruction-and-assessment-with-technology-ncties-1-pm**
 * Not a Social Network, an **Educational** Network
 * Oraclethink.com for elementary
 * Personal Learning Network (PLN): Includes a list tool, class calendar, links to class websites, email, google reader (RSS reader) for blogs and wiki changes
 * Toodle Do (To Do list that she is using instead of Remember the Milk)
 * Have students teach each other!
 * Collaborate globally and flattening your classroom: five phases (see slide show)
 * Virtual Worlds (OpenSim www.reactiongrid.com) Oar files
 * Skills for Web 2.0: Hyperlinking, Embedding
 * **Wiki-centric classroom: EVERYTHING embedded on the wiki or it doesn't get graded!**
 * Must teach **Digital Citizenship** ! (Great slide for this to show relationship between student and digital citizenship concerns (GPS location-based apps: need to teach kids about this!) **Online** behavior has **offline** consequences. Treating online vandalism AS vandalism. On a wiki it is 100% trackable.
 * On the slideshow there are illustrations that show the different learning modalities and how to engage students with different kinds of tasks when working with wikis, educational networking, and digital storytelling
 * To pull students in, bring personal interest projects into the classrEquioom. Social causes to engage students. "Invention" projects a favorite with students
 * Student readiness, Content (see slides) Classtools.net (games)
 * Equivalent Products with Web 2.0 tools (how newer technologies relate to older assessment models)