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Discovery Education streaming and
Differentiated Instruction – How to Engage
Every Learner in Your Classroom
Matt Monjan
Students Learn Differently Today
an obvious fact – but the basis for this session
They also pull media/information from different
sources
Learning Cycle and Decision Factors
Used in Planning and Implementing Differentiated Instruction
Content
Curriculum
State and Local
Standards &
Benchmarks
(Standards
Search Feature)
Student
PreAssessment
(Quiz
Builder)
Readiness/Ability
Interests/Talents
Learning Profile
Prior Knowledge
What teacher plans
to teach
Process
How teacher plans
Instruction:
•Whole Class (US
video, Atlas, PPT,
songs, etc)
•Groups/Pairs (US
+ PPT, + Activity)
•Individually
(Builders, iPod,
blog, wiki, more)
http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_diffinstruc.html
Assessment
of Content
(Quiz
Builder,
Writing
Prompt)
Summative
Evaluation
Quiz Builder – A great Assessment Tool in class or
at home
More tools to reach different learners
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Photo Story or MovieMaker (free from Microsoft)
Songs/Audio files iPhoto or iMovie from (free from Apple)
iPods and Pod casts in the classroom
Cell Phones – yes Cell Phones!
Closed Captions
Blogs
Wikies (live on-line resources that you/students can edit)
– teacher wikies
• Writing Prompts with unitedstreaming images
• Websites – unitedstreaming’s Atlas and the Builders – of
course!
Let’s meet my
godson Zack
iPods as Learning Centers and More!
• Teach a Geography Lesson
(north/south example)
• Use iPod to reach ELL or Audio and
Visual learners
• Create an eBook (or iBook) to use in a
learning center
Create a PPT with images that match the text that
you want your students to learn. Then read aloud, or
even better have students read aloud the text.
Record and put onto iPod
DE streaming Audio – Song + Power Point
DE Streaming has close to
400 elementary school
songs on the site. To find
them change the Within
Drop Down box to Songs
and click on the “Go” button
Download the song (rightclick, “save target as” on PC
or ctl + click on Mac) and
insert it into your
Powerpoint
Then add in DE streaming
Images or create your own
and add!
Songs that help teach the English language
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Learning Our Long Vowels (02:56)Long vowels say their names.© 2005 Twin Sisters
Learning Our Short Vowels (01:47)
Learn about short vowel sounds. © 2005 Twin Sisters
Letters “c” and “g” Have Two Sounds (04:48)
In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft.
Q and U Are Friends (01:13)
A song about words that start with QU © 2005 Twin Sisters
Rhyming Word Rule (02:30)
Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the beginning. © 2005
Twin Sisters
Silly Sally’s Sister (00:29)
A tongue twister with the letter S © 2005 Twin Sisters
Singing the Consonant Sounds (04:36)
A song about words that start with B,C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V,
W, X, Y, and Z © 2005 Twin Sisters
The Alphabet Swing (01:21)
Sing the letters of the alphabet.
Ok – I’m with you with on the iPods…but cell
phones
…in my classroom???
I actually met a high school principal in Ohio last
week who encouraged his teachers to tell kids “Turn
your phones ON!” when they come to class.
Not as in start making all sorts of phone calls, but as
in let’s learn how we can use our phones (since just
about every student had one at his school) to
extend what we’re doing in class.
- post by willrich
Will Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
He goes on to say…
We can try to fight this, I suppose, as many schools
are. Or, we can try to inculcate appropriate use from
early on by modeling our own cell phone use to
access information and learn throughout the
curriculum.
Will Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Bottom line…
We have to somehow find strategies to teach our
kids to use cell phones and computers and the like
in effective ways, and we also have to bend our
thinking a bit in terms of what we ask our kids to do
in classrooms in the first place.
Will Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Here’s a way to model
Next time you catch a cell phone in your class do the
following – ask the student to:
1. Take a picture of a rhombus somewhere on campus
with their cell phone camera and send it to you
2. Interview a Veteran and send you a link to their podcast
3. Text you three significant quotes from your area of
study
4. Record a ring-tone of an musical innovator…
From 1963
5. Watch cell phones suddenly disappear 
Use Discovery Education streaming images and create
a voicethread – www.voicethread.com
http://voicethread.com/share/
42329/
Opening up the Closed Captions
Why might we want to use CC in the classroom?
1. To help hearing impaired students
2. To reach visual learners
3. To teach a grammar lesson
4. To teach a vocabulary lesson
5. To work on predicting outcomes
Finding CC files
Log into unitedstreaming.com and click on the
Advanced Search link
Scroll down and click in the box next to “Include
only Closed Captioned Titles”
Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie
• First right-click on the blue download icon,
choose “Save Target As” and then place it in a
folder on your computer
• Then repeat the process, this time right-clicking
on the “CC” icon
• Adjust the CC settings within your Windows
Media Player – CC settings
Take that one step further
• Using the Advanced Search feature, find a video
that is in both English and Spanish and is CC
• Download the English CC and the Spanish video
• Play the video in class
A Really Neat CC Example
The Bite Strength of Sharks
a unitedstreaming video clip
Here’s how we did that
Closed Captioning Trick
• Font Size
– Open the CC file in a text
editing program like Wordpad
or Notepad
– Locate the line of code that
indicates “font size”
– Increase the font size from 10
to 30 (or whatever you prefer)
– Save the CC file
CC
30 pt
10 pt
CC
Create a Writing Prompt
A writing prompt is a tool
located inside DE
streaming’s Teacher Center
You can tie in imagery +
text to scaffold your
instruction and/or create a
unique writing assignment
Examples of Teachers’ Work
PowerPoint + DE
streaming audio
DE streaming video
and images + Adobe
Premier Elements,
and audio
Discovery Atlas,
Google Earth +
Adobe Premier
Elements, green
screens
While many schools restrict access to blogs,
WIKI’s etc…
…others embrace it.
Wait a minute…couldn’t my students use
their cell phones with Gcast too?
You bet! Check this out –
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• Call1-888-65-GCAST (888-654-2278)
• Enter in the number 240-338-9388
• Enter PIN 2325
• Record your name and message, and either:
• Save and Publish it instantly
Explore your world with out leaving your
classroom!
Use the Atlas as an Activator
Example of Video + Power Point
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Working with three of your
classmates, draw a map of your
school
During your exploration of your
school and its grounds, draw at
least 10 items/areas that you
find along your route
When you get back draw a time
line of your adventure- make
sure that you include significant
events that you encountered
along the way
Time Line Example
1:00 PM
1:15 PM
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
Began Trip Found the lost locker Enjoyed a feast with the Was introduced to the
Trip Ended
of Hall C
indigenous Cafeterians native game of Dodge Ball
in the Gymnasium
Recording Sound with PPT
1. Click on the word Insert
in your Tool Bar
2. Click on Movies and
Sounds
3. Click on Record Sound
4. Click on the red dot and
record your students
narrating the
encyclopedia article that
you round in DE
Streaming
Giezi
My Notes
• 1st grade Reading level
• Grew up on a farm in Puerto
Rico, loves the outdoors
• Auditory learner, prefers to
work independently
Action Plan
• Content = Jeff Corwin video
• Process = Learning center
assignment with closed
captioning enabled
• Product = Short quiz or Writing
Prompt linked to assignment
Michelle
My Notes
• Grade-level reader (above
grade-level in Spanish)
• Enjoys reading stories about
kids her age
• Expresses herself best through
her writing
Action Plan
• Content = Short stories (e.g.,
Chicken Soup for the
Children’s Soul)
• Process = Customized writing
prompts (English and Spanish)
• Product = Digital portfolio of
journal entries
Ebony
My Notes
• Excellent reader
• Wants to be a news
reporter
• Does not test well, but
loves to work on projects
Action Plan
• Content =
• Process =
• Product =
Daniel
My Notes
• Advanced in all subject
areas
• Wants to write, produce
and direct movies
• Artistic and creative
Action Plan
• Content =
• Process =
• Product =
Using DE streaming Tools to Reach the 21st Century
Mind
Collaborative Projects
using DE streaming
editable movies, cell
phones and cameras!
Displaying DE
streaming videos
on TVs and LCD
projectors,
whiteboards, etc
Making it portable
– DE On-The-Go
with iPods
Projecting DE streaming
math or close captioned
videos, articles, calendars
and images on interactive
white boards
Creating learning
centers or labs with
DE tools like the
Assignment, Quiz,
and Writing Prompt
Builders
Tying DE streaming
into teacher/class
wikis, blogs,
websites
Who will help me connect these tools to my
students?
… a global community of educators passionate
about teaching with digital media, sharing
resources, collaborating and networking…
DEN in Review
• 2 years ago…we launched the DEN
• Today
– Over 26,800 Discovery Educators
Worldwide
– 2500 STAR Discovery Educators in 46
States
– Over 14,000 Events Reported
– Reaching Over 350,000 Educators
– Imagine Number of Students
Impacted!
Contact Info
Matt Monjan
Account Manager
[email protected]
240-338-9388
www.discoveryeducation.com