posted by Dorie on Jul 24
During my current class, I have enjoyed experimenting with different ways that we can differentiate instruction with technology. I have learned how to make a tic-tac-toe board incorporating technology and multiple intelligences, how to create a survey to differentiate instruction according to student’s interests, and create a Bloom’s taxonomy chart that includes weblinks for students. For many teachers, using technology in general is another way to differentiate instruction, because they do not use it at all. I do use technology in my classroom everyday. I recommend to others to look at their curriculum and see how using a technology tool might enhance the engagement and learning for their students. The experience of applying new technology tools to your current curriculum helps you see connections that you might not have made before. I believe that using technology engages the learner. Here is an example of using a tic-tac-toe board that focuses on multiple intelligences and technology integration.
| Dorie Glynn
EDIM 503 Tic-Tac-Toe Board Recycling -2nd Grade Science |
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| Logic Smart
Technology: Surveymonkey.com Product: Survey your classmates about recycling in their home. Share the results with your classmates. |
Body Smart
Technology: Smartboard, Brainpopjr.com Product: Watch the movie: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle on Brainpopjr.com. Complete the activities that go along with the movie using the smartboard (easy and hard quiz, game, pop a joke, and belly up). |
Wonder Smart
Technology: Storybook Weaver Product: Create a story about animals in the forest that find litter on the ground. What do the animals do about the litter? |
| Music Smart
Technology: Moviemaker, Video camera Product: Create a rap video to persuade people to recycle. |
People Smart
Technology: Wikispaces.com Product: On the classroom wikispace, post ideas about how to get our school involved in recycling. |
Picture Smart
Technology: Kidspiration Product: Create a web showing pictures of natural resources, and then show and write about how we can conserve them. |
| Nature Smart
Technology: Digital Pictures, Glogster.com Product: Take pictures of the playground and school showing how it should look when we recycle and clean up our school/playground. Create a glog poster convincing others to take care of our school/playground. |
Word Smart
Technology: Wordle.net Product: Create a wordle listing vocabulary words that you might use when talking about how people can help the environment. |
Self Smart
Technology:Twitter.com, internet sites Product: Share websites, videos, or resources with other classes on twitter that explain why recycling is important. |
The next challenge for me is to incorporate as much of the technology differentiation ideas as I can during the the school year. This year I would like to use twitter.com and podcasting.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Hi Dorie,
Thanks for sharing your tic-tac-toe board. Many of the sites you included are among my favorites (BrainPOP, Wikispaces, Glogster, and Wordle).
Do you have your second graders actually log in and use SurveyMonkey and Twitter? If so, have you encountered any problems or issues, and what have you done to resolve them?
Thanks for your comments and/or suggestions!
July 26th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I just set up my classroom twitter account in the spring. I am hoping to rotate students into tweeting the happenings of the classroom. I have found some other 2nd grade classrooms. I am hoping to connect with Karie’s classroom as well.
As far as surveymonkey, although I have used it. I am now looking to see how students might use it or google forms. I really enjoyed making the survey earlier in this class and hope to get my students creating as well.
We haven’t used glogster yet either, so I will have to see how difficult it will be to teach the technology and stay on track with the curriculum. This year I think I will have to share one of the laptop carts, so that makes it harder as well. So, we will see. Thanks for your comments and questions!