This is the outline of the ppt presentation on Learning4Life Differentiated Instruction by Dr. Sherry Crow and Judy Henning

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1 Learning4Life:
Use Web 2.0 tools and other technologies to differentiate
instruction while addressing the Learning4Life AASL 21st
Century Learning standards.
2 Presenters:
 Dr. Sherry Crow
▪ University of Nebraska at Kearney Assistant Professor
School of Library Science/Educational Media
▪ Nebraska Library Commissioner
▪ NEMA Board Member
 Judy Henning
▪ Kearney Public Schools Director of School Library/Media
Services
▪ Kearney High School Librarian Media
▪ NEMA Learning4Life Coach
3 Web 2.0 Wallwisher:
 Go to the Wallwisher at the following URL to post discussion
questions to be addressed at the end of the presentation:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nlaNEMAwall
4 L4L & Differentiated Instruction:
 History
 Benjamin Bloom, educational psychologist
▪ Get beyond the knowledge and understanding base to the
higher levels of thinking.
▪ Individualized instruction is differentiated instruction.
 Schools are no longer judged by what
put into the educational system, but
by the output in the form of
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT!
5 ALL Students Can Learn:
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5 ALL Students Can Learn:
 Through educational technology, educators can design
lessons that are engaging for the visual, audio and kinesthetic
learning styles so all students can learn. . .
But technology is only a tool in
the educational process.
6 Web 2.0 Tool Xtranormal:
 Differentiate Instruction with Xtranormal
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11174304/learning-4-life?
page=1?listtype=SERIES
7 Web 2.0 Tool Show Me:
 Differentiate Instruction with Show Me
Link here Show Me on AASL 21st Century Learning Standards,
Empowering Learners, 21st Century Learning Standards in
Action. I will do tomorrow;
I need a stylist to have better handwriting.
8 Using QR Codes for Differentiating Instruction:
 What are QR codes?
 How do you open them?
 How do you create them?
 Educational uses for QR codes
9 What are QR codes?
 QR stands for:
 Quite Reasonable
 Questions Raised
 Quick Response
 Queensland Rail
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 Quick Response
 Queensland Rail
10 How do you open them?
 Needs a device that scans them into an app that can read
them.
 Most smartphones
 QR Reader app (usually free; download from app store)
 Can be used with a scanner to a computer with loaded
software.
11 How do you create them?
 Go to a QR code generator
 http://www.qrstuff.com/
 Follow directions
12 Educational uses for QR codes
 Website with lots of applications:
http://livebinders.com/play/play/51894
 Pennsylvania school doing lots of QR Code use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8
(by Laura Jacobs and Allison Burke, McGuffey School District,
Permission for showing this video has been granted)
 Ease of use for young students:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=hSA3YsBy_pU&feature=related
(Recorded on March 29, 2011 using a Flip Video camera.
Permission for showing this video has been granted)
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13 Closer to home. . .
 Kearney High School scavenger hunt in celebration of
2011 Technology Week:
14 Differentiated Instruction:
 When differentiating instruction, allow students the CHOICE
of which Web 2.0 tools to use.
 Use Tech Tac Toe Choice Board of secondary open source
application (posted handout).
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16 Examples of projects:
 Wallwisher
 Animoto:
http://animoto.com/play/U75lrFy10slZ7pFmcAHVCw
 Prezi:
http://prezi.com/zluerana3zyh/differentiated-learning-in-math/
 Xtranormal
 Poll Everywhere or Survey Monkey
17 Examples of Wordle & Tagxedo:
18 Sample MakeBeliefsComix:
19 Sample of Juxio Poster:
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21 Wallwisher Discussion Questions
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