1. Technology Driven
Differentiated Instruction
Vicki Davis, Teacher
@coolcatteacher
Coolcatteacher.com/gaetc

2. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
HOW DO WE REACH
EVERY CHILD?

3. ANSWER:
WE START BY LEARNINGTO SEETHEWORLD
THROUGHTHEIR EYES

4. A letter from Rebekah
“Mrs.Vicki,
I cannot put into words how great of a teacher and amazing person you are. I
love your class and the fact that you don’t only do what will suffice, but strive to
make everything that happens at our school phenomenal and the best it can be.
You are honestly the most inspirational person I’ve ever met, and just so you
know, you’re on my dream team.
Thank you for having the patience your job requires and everything you’ve
done to help us all become the best versions of ourselves. I’m blessed that I just
so happen to be born, of all of the places in the world, near Camilla and was
able to meet you and have a beam of your light shine on my life.
You have completely changed my outlook on this world and opened so many
doors of opportunity I previously had no idea existed.
Before I met you, I hadn’t even considered a career in art. But you have
altered my perspective and I now realize that there are endless opportunities
and options for an artistic career.
I appreciate that you are so real and that you are not afraid to say, ‘hey, you’re
not perfect,’ because no one is. And you realize that the beauty of our flaws is
that they accentuate our better features.
I’m not a believer in predestination, but I believe that God does coax us in the
direction of wonderful things, and I believe he urged you to come back to
Camilla to do amazing things; and what amazing things you have done!
I am so grateful for all that you do and I hope you have an amazing summer!;)
Rebekah”

5. PARENT PAIN POINT:
Do My Child’s
Teachers Care?

7. Why I fight this fight

8. Empty Chairs Matter

9. STUDENT PAIN POINT:
DOES ANYONE CARE
THAT I AM HERE?

10. Son, what do
you wish your
teacher knew
about you?

11. I wish she
knew
my name.

13. ADMIN PAIN POINT:
WILL RELATIONSHIPS
REALLY IMPROVE
LEARNING?

14. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Classroom Management
Metacognitive Processes
Cognitive Processes
Home Env/ Parental Inv
Stdnt/Tchr Social Intxn
Social/ Behavioral Attributes
Motivational/ Affective Attr
Peer Group
Quantity of Instruction
School Culture
Classroom Climate
Classroom Instruction
Curriculum Design
Stdnt/Tchr Academic Intxn
Classroom Assessment
Community Influences
Psychomotor Skills
Tchr/ Admin Decisionmaking
Curriculum and Instruction
Parental Involvement Policy
Classroom Impl/ Support
Student Demographics
Out of Class Time
Program Demographics
School Demographics
State Level Policies
School Policies
District Demographics
Relative Influences on Learning

15. Notice this
•Student/Teacher Social
Interactions is #5
•Student/Teacher Academic
Interaction is #14
•Hattie 2009

16. Hattie’s 2015 update
1. Student reported grades (how well do they think they’ll do?)
2. Piagetian programs
3. Response to Intervention
4. TeacherCredibility
• Trust
• Competence
• Dynamism
• Immediacy
5. Formative Evaluation
6. Micro-teaching (mini lessons)
7. Classroom discussion
8. Comprehensive interventions for LD students
9. Teacher clarity (clear learning intentions)
10. Feedback
http://visible-learning.org/glossary/

17. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
How do I differentiate
without losing my
mind?

18. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT:
Let’s Look at #1
1. Classroom Management
• teacher uses questioning/ recitation strategies that maintain active
student participation
Wang, Haertel, Walberg, 1997
“What Helps Students Learn?
Spotlight on Student Success”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED461694.pdf

19. PRACTICE DOESN’T
MAKE PERFECT… IT
MAKES PERMANENT
Classroom Management

20. Essential Procedures
• Entering Room
• Exiting Room
• Paperflow
• Being Excused from the Room
• Essential Positions forTeaching and Interacting

22. Here’s a Big Secret to Differentiating
Have good classroom
management procedures so you
have the time (and energy) to
differentiate!

23. The
problem with
technology

25. Transport us
to a better
education

26. SCHOOL PAIN POINT:
How can we justify
expensive technology?

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Every student
learns
differently!

28. Deliver using dual
encoding.

29. Technology Driven Differentiation
AClassroom
BAdministration

30. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
Learning
Environment
(essential link)
Learning Styles
Interests
Readiness
Level
Content
Process
(engine)
1
2
3
4 5
7
6

31. T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
The Tools
(Framework)
1
Today we will learn:
1. About the framework I use in my classroom. (I’ll give you options for each item)
2. I challenge you to write down your own framework
3. Give you a model to select tools that are easy use in differentiated instruction
4. Give you practical examples of what differentiation looks like.

32. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
I am so busy, how do I
find time to do new
things with my
students?

34. The power of Three!

35. THE ANSWER:
Build AToolkit one or
two new tools a year.

36. My Toolkit
2005 Social
Educational Network
(Ning & Blogging)
2005 Wiki
2006 Student
Productivity Tools
(iGoogle)
2006 Audio File
creation
2006 Video creation
2006 Global
collaboration
2007 Virtual Worlds 2010 Apps / QR Codes
2011 Cloud Storage/
Paperless
2013
Formative Assessment
Platforms (Socrative,
Kahoot)
Spring 2014 Sophia
Fall 2014 Haiku
Learning
#inflip Teaching
Spring 2014 Mobile
App Development
with Crescerance
Merging SIS
(Powerschool) with
LMS (Haiku Learning)
2015
Proofreading Tools
2015
T h e C l a s s r o o m C a r
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39. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
Students type in IM
speak and act like they
do on social networks in
academic spaces.

40. ANSWER:
1. We are in an
academic, educational
network, not a social
network.
2.You are a professional
student.

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1. Educational Network
(Ning) – PRIVATE!

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43. Blog Like a Pirate
Blog in first person. Draw a color to
determine whether you are the Kraken, Davy
Jones, or another character.

44. Blog Like a
BlueMan
• Students write in first
person as if they
were a blue man
performing in this
performance.
• They pick the blue
man group video of
their choice to
embed.

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46. How you can add blogging to your
classroom toolkit?
• Ning (Costs more) education.ning.com
• Wordpress www.wordpress.com
– Edublogs is based on wordpress. www.edublogs.org
– We’re taking part of the school website for school blogging.
• Blogger www.blogger.com
– Kidblogs based on blogger
• Write the World writetheworld.com/
– Writing competitions
• Padlet www.padlet.com
• Seesaw web.seesaw.me
– Some younger classrooms are using Padlet and SeeSaw like a blog

47. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
How can I proof and give
feedback on all this
online work?

48. ANSWER:
YOU DON’T!
You use tools that will help students empower themselves to be
better writers.

50. Use Hemingway App w/ Grammarly

51. Pro Writing Aid

52. TIP: Remove Sticky Sentences

53. TIP: Add 25% transitions

54. What are the proofing / editing
tools you can add to your toolkit?
• Grammarly www.grammarly.com
– Sign up for it using Google Chrome to get basic features free
– Pro version gives all kinds of editing, etc.
– Can’t use inside Google Docs
• Hemingway (a web page) www.hemingwayapp.com
– No need to buy the offline version. Use the online version free.
– Use small pieces of text and edit from top to bottom.
• Pro Writing Aid www.prowritingaid.com
– Can use online or add to Google Docs

55. TEACHER (AND
STUDENT) PAIN POINT:
I’m a slow typist

56. Google Voice Typing

57. Dragon Dictate

58. Mac Dication
• Press Fn Fn twice on your Mac

59. Read and Write for Google
Voice Commenting
1 minute or less voice comment

60. What are the voice typing tools
you can add to your toolkit?
• Google Voice Typing http://cctea.ch/G-voicetype
• Dragon http://cctea.ch/cct-dragon
– Dragon Anywhere (on mobile app – paid)
– Dragon Software (on computer)
• Dictation on Mac http://cctea.ch/cct-macdictate
• Dictation on Mobile phone (hit mic button)
• Read Write for Google Chrome http://cctea.ch/cct-readwrite

61. TEACHER PAIN POINT:
How Do I Make Sure
Students Know How to
Behave Online?
(Real Pain Point: How do
I keep from losing my
job over a kid doing
something dumb?)

62. See “What Your Students
REALLY need to know
about Digital Citizenship”
by Vicki Davis on Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/bl
og/digital-citizenship-need-
to-know-vicki-davis
Chapter 11 in Reinventing
Writing
1. Pick a digital
citizenship model

63. 2. Let students explore the model by
creating a website and sharing with each
other.

64.