Integrating
Technology and
Marzano’s
Instructional
Strategies
Instructional Strategy
Effect size
%ile gain
Identifying similarities & differences
1.61
45
Summarizing and note taking
1.00
34
Reinforcing effort & providing recognition
.80
29
Homework and Practice
.77
28
Nonlinguistic representations
.75
27
Cooperative learning
.73
27
Setting objectives and providing feedback
.61
23
Generating & testing hypothesis
.61
23
Questions, cues, and advance organizers
.59
22
Identifying Similarities and
Differences
 Four processes:
 Comparing
 Classifying
 Creating metaphors
 Creating analogies
 Helps student restructure their understanding of content
 Encourages students to make new connections and correct
misconceptions
 Use graphic and symbolic representations to give students
support and structure
Identifying Similarities and
Differences
 Microsoft Word
 SmartArt graphics
 Insert table
 Clipart for analogies and
metaphors
 Microsoft Excel
Identifying Similarities and
Differences
 Mapping software
 Kidspiration/Inspiration
 http://www.mindmeister.com
 bubbl.us
• Classifying Example
 Interactive whiteboard
 Mimio Notebook
 SMART Notebook
 Promethean ActivInspire
 Comparing Example
 Classifying Example
Summarizing and Note Taking
 Enhance students' ability to synthesize information
and distill it into a concise new form.
 Students need specific summarizing and notetaking techniques.
 Microsoft Office for summarizing and note-taking:
 Use Track Changes in Word to teach summarizing
technique
 Use Auto Summarize to compare student summaries with
computer summary
 PowerPoint for combination notes (two-content layout)
Concepts/Facts
Summary:
Nonlinguistic Representations
Summarizing and Note Taking
 Collaborative summarizing and note-taking:
 Wiki http://wikispaces.com
Example: http://ow.ly/25rWN
 Blog http://www.blogger.com
Example: http://sarahplainandtall.blogspot.com/
 EtherPad http://piratepad.net
Take & share notes from the session!
Reinforcing Effort
 Motivation plays a key role in the learning process.
 Use a rubric and spreadsheet to track effort and
achievement.
 Students rate their own effort and record in a
spreadsheet.
 Provide students with grades for each task based on
criteria for assignment.
 Students enter grades in spreadsheet, then create a
graph to show correlation between effort and
achievement.
Providing Recognition
Provide recognition through:
 Digital student portfolios
 Blog
 Microsoft certificate templates http://ow.ly/259Fx
Example: Students create certificates for
classmates.
Providing Recognition
 Podcast
 Audioboo http://audioboo.fm
 Teachers, students, and parents can record podcast and
share with class.
 Video conferencing/messaging
 Tokbox http://www.tokbox.com
 Similar to podcasting, create a video message to provide
recognition for students.
Homework and Practice
 Give students opportunities to deepen their
understanding of and proficiency with content
 Communicate the purpose of homework and
practice
 Provide feedback to students
 Students need a lot of practice to achieve mastery
Homework and Practice
Have students work cooperatively to create games using templates below.
Students who create the games and students who play the games will
benefit!
 Templates for you or students to create
 Classroom game templates
 Microsoft Office games
 PowerPoint templates
 Teacher created games
 Jeopardy games
 PowerPoint games
Web Resources for
Homework and Practice
 Math
 Virtual manipulatives
 Interactive EOG & EOC
 GeoGebra
 Math 5 Live
 IXL Math Practice (K-6)
 Language Arts
 Into the Book
 ReadWriteThink
 Magnetic Poetry
 Science
 FOSSweb
 EdHeads
 General
 BrainPop – movies and
quizzes
 Iknowthat.com – (K-8)
 Flashcard Exchange
 E-Learning for Kids (K-6)
Nonlinguistic Representations
 Use linguistic & nonlinguistic representations of
content to increase understanding and retention.
 To significantly increase learning, involve students
in creating nonlinguistic representations.
 Simple applications:
 Add clip art and photos to notes, vocabulary, word walls
 Play video clips and slideshows
 Use presentation software for lessons
• Pete’s PowerPoint Station - http://www.pppst.com
Nonlinguistic Representations
Nonlinguistic Representations
 Photo Story
Example: http://tr.im/nccsinsttech
 Windows Movie Maker
 Glogster http://edu.glogster.com
Example: http://bit.ly/aCwUPK
 Prezi http://prezi.com
Example: http://ow.ly/25rzn
Nonlinguistic Representations
 Go Animate http://goanimate.com
Example: http://bit.ly/9zDvvc
 Google Earth http://earth.google.com/intl/en/
Example: NCCS virtual tour
 Voice Thread http://voicethread.com
Example: http://voicethread.com/share/44033/
Cooperative Learning
Use a variety of grouping
patterns.
 Informal Groups:
 Think-Pair-Share
 Turn to your neighbor
 Formal Groups:
 Literature Circles
 Guided Reading
 Project-based
 Base Groups:
 Long term
 Homeroom
 Table team
Cooperative Learning
 Use rubrics to communicate expectations for
cooperative learning and evaluate group
cooperation.
Example:
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/rub.mmproj.htm
Cooperative Learning
Technology-based cooperative learning experiences:
 Multimedia projects
 Video creation and editing
 Glogster http://edu.glogster.com
 News cast
 Skype
 50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom http://ow.ly/24VkX
 ePals Global Community http://www.epals.com
Cooperative Learning
 EtherPad
http://piratepad.net
 Wiki
 Class web page
(School Fusion)
 Wikispaces - Free for
educational wikis
http://wikispaces.com
Example:
http://rockwritelisten.wikispaces.
com/
Setting Objectives and
Providing Feedback
 Students learn best when they know the goals or
objectives of a lesson or learning activity.
 We do this with:
 Essential Questions
 Essential Skills
 Rubrics
 KWL
Setting Objectives
 Digital learning goals are easily shared with parents and
easy to access later for progress monitoring, reflection, and
evaluation.
 Electronic KWL
Example: http://bit.ly/kwlchart
 Learning contract
Example using Google Docs Form: http://ow.ly/25sJw
Spreadsheet for results
 Blog for brainstorming
 Post topic prior to lesson, unit, text reading, etc.
Setting Objectives
 Data and goal-setting
 Electronic newsletter
 Study Island
 Pre-assessment
 Survey Monkey
 Clickers
 Microsoft Mouse Mischief
• Angles lesson example
Providing Feedback
 Effective feedback enhances student achievement.
 Rubrics
 Rubistar
 Teachnology
 Blog - Use comments for feedback
Example: http://ow.ly/24UkI
Providing Feedback
 Classroom web page - Use as digital portfolio for
students. Teachers, students, and parents can leave
comments for feedback.
Example: http://ow.ly/24Uu0
 Voice Thread
 Microsoft Word – Comments
 Clickers - Provide immediate feedback
 Study Island
Generating and Testing
Hypotheses
 Includes 6 types of tasks:
 Systems Analysis (Predict what might happen if one part
of a system changes.)
 Problem Solving (Focus on unstructured, real life
problems that may have more than one solution.)
 Decision Making (Make a prediction and weigh it against
other possible alternatives.)
 Historical Investigation (“What really happened?” “Why
did this happen?”)
 Experimental Inquiry (Not only used in science!)
 Invention (“Shouldn’t there be a better way to…?”)
Generating and Testing
Hypotheses
 Spreadsheets
 Microsoft Excel
 Google Docs
• Collect and analyze data
• Evaluate criteria
• Make decisions
 Google Earth
 Historical Imagery
Generating and Testing
Hypotheses
 Web Resources
 EdHeads
 NOVA Building Big
 Smog City
 Plimoth Plantation’s You Are the Historian
 Primary Access
 By Kids for Kids: How to Invent
 Hurricane Strike!
 Explore Learning
 Zoo Matchmaker
 Windward!
Cues, Questions, and
Advance Organizers
 Cues: Explicit hints about what students are going
to learn or experience
 Multimedia
 http://www.watchknow.org
 http://www.ncwiseowl.org
 http://www.brainpop.com
 Anticipation guides
Example: http://bit.ly/anticipationguide
Cues, Questions, and
Advance Organizers
 Questions help students access prior knowledge.
 Blog
Questioning example
 Podcast
 http://audioboo.fm
 Twitter http://www.twitter.com
 Algebra problems on twitter
Cues, Questions, and
Advance Organizers
 Advance Organizers help students classify and make sense of
content and set a purpose
 Graphic organizers
 Interactive graphic organizers: http://bit.ly/graphorg
 Microsoft Word – SmartArt graphics
 Kidspiration/Inspiration
 http://www.mindmeister.com
 bubbl.us
Example: http://ow.ly/25H33
 Google Docs
Example: http://bit.ly/kwlchart
 Note-taking guide for multimedia