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30 Sites/Apps for Differentiated Instruction

Technology Tidbits

While there are lots of ways this can be done and lots of tools that educators can use to accomplish this, there are many sites that can help facilitate the process. Also, the "Go Interactive" features allows teachers to collaborate w/ students in real-time and gauge student understanding to differentiate instruction.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

The Station Rotation Model: Providing Differentiated Direct Instruction. Effective use of differentiated instruction “has been proven to successfully promote the equity dimension of instructional effectiveness by providing all students with the opportunity to improve their achievement levels” (Valiandes, 2015).

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How to educate students on online behavior in a digital learning environment

Hapara

Students can also learn concepts through multimedia, online collaboration, virtual simulations, open educational resources and more. Set clear expectations Schools and classroom educators both need to set clear expectations about what appropriate online behavior means. We will stay focused on the websites related to class activities.

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Convert PDFs to Google Docs to Differentiate Instructional Materials – From Brenda Doucette

EdTechTeacher

PDFs are just not editable in most situations, and this was an issue when it came to modifying and differentiating documents. Adobe Acrobat was our “go to” application for this type of conversion, but it was costly and often hard to come by in an educational setting. Upload a PDF document to your Drive.

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Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education

The Hechinger Report

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. There was no group of students who experienced a high degree of exposure to proficiency-based education.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.

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Using Book Creator for Differentiated Learning

EdTechTeacher

As educators, we understand that our students bring different learner profiles, strengths, challenges, and interests to learning. Differentiated instruction gives students multiple options for taking in information, making sense of their ideas and then expressing what they know (Tomlinson, 2001). Apple Books.