The document discusses a framework for differentiated instruction presented at the 77th Annual Conference for the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children. It emphasizes the five Cs of digital curation and the use of Web 2.0 tools to curate instructional resources that cater to diverse student needs. The session includes practical examples and addresses the challenges of implementing digital curation for effective teaching.

1. A Framework for
Differentiated
Instruction
77th Annual Conference for Michigan Council for Exceptional Children,
Grand Rapids, MI, March 3, 2017
Mark E. Deschaine & Sue Ann Sharma

2. Today’s Takeaway
Today’s session will provide you with a practical
perspective on the ways to utilize the Five Cs
Digital Curation Framework to assist in
developing an effective and efficient process for
curating and adapting instructional resources to
meet the diverse needs of students utilizing Web
2.0 tools.

3. What is Digital Curation?
"The intentional process of mindfully mining,
organizing, and archiving digital resources”
(Deschaine & Sharma, 2015)

4. Historical Links

5. Think Pair Share - Finding Your
Ground Zero
What are some of the successes and barriers to
using digital curation for differentiated
instruction?

6. The Five Cs of Digital Curation

7. Are You on Woo Woo?
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESw5aL12II

8. The Five Cs Framework and Curation
Tools

9. Cloud Storage
Look for reliability, scalability,
and accessibility
❏Google Groups
❏ Google Docs
❏ Google Classroom
❏ Google Forms
❏ Google Slides
❏ Google Sheets
❏ Google Drawing
❏ Microsoft Office
❏ Dropbox
❏ Evernote

10. Explain Everything App
❏ ScreenCasting
❏ Interactive Whiteboard
❏ Annotate
❏ Annimate
❏ Narrate
❏ Import & Export

11. Classifying: Learning Targets

12. Seesaw
Digital Portfolios

13. LiveBinders
and Assistive Technology

14. Classifying and Critiquing Language
Comprehension
❏ World Knowledge
❏ personal experience, reading & other media, everyday life (including
misinformation
❏ Topic Knowledge
❏ Knowledge from inquiry/interest about specific academic and
nonacademic topics
❏ Disciplinary Knowledge
❏ Discipline vernacular

15. Correlation
Chart: How
Would You
Take This
Information
and Utilize it to
Conceptualize
Text
Differently?

16. Leveled Readers: Lexile.com

17. Conceptualization of Classroom
Libraries
BookApps2 Level It

18. Epic!
Unlimited
Online Books
Read Aloud Features
Track Books Read

19. Protopage
Virtual Desktop

20. Scoopit
Disability Supports

21. Pinterest
Advocating Acceptance and
Awareness

22. 10 Sites for Differentiated
Instruction
❏ BrainNook
❏ Clever Island
❏ Gummii
❏ nfuse Learning
❏ IXL
❏ No Red Ink
❏ Power My Learning
❏ TenMarks
❏ ZooWhiz
❏ Zondle

23. Think...Pair...Share...
● Teachers - How do you do this effectively and efficiently during instruction?
● Administrators - How do you insure that your teachers are effectively
integrating IEP goals and objectives into the general education curriculum?
● Everyone - How do you insure that there is implementation with fidelity across
the program?

24. Thank You!
Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
desch1me@cmich.edu
Sue Ann Sharma, PhD
dr.sueann@gmail.com