Integrating Technology with
“Style”
Alyssa Moore & Kathy Kelly
4/9/08
Anticipation Guide –
Technology and Differentiating Instruction
Technology can be used as a tool to
differentiate instruction.
We may need to differentiate instruction
when we’re integrating technology.
When visiting a website you can only
address your visual learners.
Sensory Bag Activity – Chinatown
2nd grade classroom
Prior to beginning to work on
Chinatown in Houghton-Mifflin
anthology
Sensory Bag Activity – Chinatown
Hilo Chinese New Year
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In Chinatown, by William Low, the characters are celebrating
Chinese New Year in a big city in America
Authentic celebration of Chinese New Year in Hawaii
Chinese Dragon Parade
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A dragon is featured in the San Francisco Chinese New Year
Parade
The earliest documentation of the dragon dance was in the
Western Han dynasty about 200 BC. The dance was done to
beg for rain during a pernicious drought
Sensory Bag Activity – Chinatown
Awaken the Chi
taiji warm up photo: Awaken the Chi http://www.everyday-taichi.com/tai-chi-exercises-qs5.html
Sensory Bag Activity – Chinatown
Build background knowledge
Introduce vocabulary
Highlight Chinese American culture
Differentiating by learning style
Differentiating the use of web resources
Sensory Bag Activity – Ballet
Fine Arts classroom or regular
classroom
Any grade level
Sensory Bag Activity - Ballet
Nutcracker
Suite Tchaikovsky
Artist: Edgar Degas
Sensory Bag Activity - Ballet
Visual Art Standard 4: Understanding the
visual arts in relation to history and cultures
SEM cluster (differentiating by interest)
Student engagement – bringing the art home
Building background knowledge
Differentiating by learning style
Differentiating the use of web resources
Now You Try…
LoTi
Includes:
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LoTi Framework
PCU Framework
CIP Framework
LoTi
And now the
DETAILS Framework
Skill sets as
defined by the
Partnership for
21st Century
Skills.
Framework for
Learning
st
21
Century
NCLB
Technology Literacy
Technology Literacy is the ability to
responsibly use appropriate technology to
communicate, solve problems, and access,
manage, integrate, evaluate and create
information to improve learning in all subject
areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and
skills in the 21st century.
How Technology Enhances Howard
Gardner's Eight Intelligences
Verbal-Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Kinesthetic
Visual-Spatial
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
http://www.america-tomorrow.com/ati/nhl80402.htm
Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence
Software with text-to-speech
capabilities
Online experts
Multimedia presentations and projects
Video conferencing
Podcasting
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Software that:
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Offers immediate feedback
Goes beyond drill & practice
Develops higher-order thinking skills
Develops problem-solving skills (including multistep
problems and problems with multiple solutions)
Requires students to learn and use computer
programming language
Online manipulatives
Interactive simulations
Electronic Puzzles
Kinesthetic
Hand-eye coordination
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Keyboard
Mouse
Touch screen
Controller
Computer simulations
Virtual reality simulation
Virtual field trips
Wii
Visual-Spatial
Video
Speech Viewer – visual feedback for
speech patterns
Graphic design
Multimedia presentations and projects
Virtual reality
Musical
Software & Equipment that:
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Takes a recorded hummed tune and makes
it sound like different instruments
Allows user to compose for and orchestrate
many different instruments
Enables students to understand a piece
musically, historically, culturally, and
politically
Interpersonal
Collaborative projects
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iEARN
Wiki’s
Blogs
Social networking
Video conferencing
Video taping performances
and facial expressions)
Distance learning
(analyze body movements
Intrapersonal
Technology offers the means to pursue a line of thought in great
depth as well as to have random access to divergent ideas.
Making these choices allows students control over their own
learning and intellectual development.
Hypermedia
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Expands the ability to think holistically
Makes connections between ideas and images
Software
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Brainstorming/organizing
Individual student learning plans
Tutoring systems
Electronic portfolios
Naturalist
Telecommunication technologies help
students to:
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Understand the world beyond their own
environment
See how their actions can affect the world
Online experts
Virtual fieldtrips
Digital video, cameras, and microscopes
Resources
Differentiated Centers
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http://www.christina.k12.de.us/techlearn/L
oTi/loti3_activities.html
Online Resources/Activities
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http://www.thinkfinity.org
Question & Answer