
Differentiation
With Technology
Nikki Vradenburg
Assessment
Plickers, formative assessment tool, use one device to scan student answer cards
Bright Loop record keeping website, create, store and review anecdotal records from conferences and small group lessons
Technology Tools for Differentiaion
Smore Flyers, first 5 flyers are free, $39 a year for teachers after that
Osmo, Interactive tool for iPad, tanagrams, drawing, word games, $79
PBS Learning Media, free content website, K-12, video, interactive games, lessons, free
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr., animated videos, quizzes, games and lessons, many free resources, even more with paid subscription
Happy Numbers, K-2 Math practice exercises, CCSS aligned, check student progress, assign lessons to specific students, paid subscription neededTen Marks 1-8 Math practices exercises, CCSS aligned, check student progress, assign lessons to specific students, free with option for paid upgrade
Keyboarding Without Tears, iPad app or online keyboarding and literacy activities, K-5, supplement to Handwriting Without Tears program, purchase subscription
KidBlog blogging platform for schools, free with paid upgrade options starting at $35/year
Mrs. Vradenburg's K-1 Class Blog
Explain Everything app for screencasting, $2.99, well worth the cost!
Popplet app and website for creating graphic organizers, use draw tool, enter text or insert pictures, share popplets to blogs, email, print
SoundCloud audio recording app and website, record sounds and share them, great for recording audio books and linking to QR codes for listening center
GoNoodle website with brain breaks in a gamified setting, free, very popular
Decide Now app customized spinner app, $0.99
Class Dojo classroom management website and app, reward behavior using avatars
Today's Meet private online chat room for collaboration, easy to set up and use, free, great for book discussions
Mystery Skype collaborative activity to connect classes via Skype to ask and answer questions, good for geography and critical thinking lessons
Nearpod interactive presentation website, import slides from Power Point or Google Slides, add interactive elements such as quizzes, polls or drawing activities, share with mobile devices, free with paid upgrade options
Kodable, teach K-3 students how to code using this iPad app, has full curriculum
Padlet, online disucssion board, tap the screen to add to the board, free Google tool
Flexible Grouping and Invisible Tiering Resources
Daily 5 Literacy Block manage student chosen literacy centers while meeting with small groups and individual students
Lucy Calkins Units of Study Writer's Workshop K-8 writing workshop curriculum, CCSS aligned Units for each grade level in Opinion, Narrative and Expository writing
Georgia Math online math curriculum, CCSS aligned, lends itself nicely to a workshop model
K-5 Math Reasources website with K-5 hands on and literature resources for teaching math, free
Number Talks daily mental math and problem solving practice, focuses on communication and math practice standards, book and CD can be purchased on Amazon, plenty of online resources on Pinterest and The Teaching Channel to use without the book or the CD
Read Works website with K-8 CCSS aligned reading passages and novel units in fiction and non-fiction, search by standard, skill or grade level, print or use electronic copyNewsela website with free news articles, print or view electronically, view the same article in multiple reading levels, CCSS aligned, free
Genius Hour
Popplet Graphic Organizer, app and web tool for establishing prior knowledge
Create Guiding Questions for Research
KidRex, Brain Pop, PBS Learning Media, Research and explore topic
Create project to showcase new learning
Print Resources
Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom by Susan Winebrenner
Teaching Young Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom by Marjorie Lisovskis
How to Differentiate in a Mixed Ability Classroom by Carol Ann Thompson
Math Exchanges by Kassia Omuhundro Wedikind
The Literacy Teacher's Playbook by Jennifer Sevarallo
Words Their Way by Donald R. Bear
Online Resources
Funding Resources
Donors Choose submit a project to be funded, use Social Media to promote, anyone can donate any amount, online application
Target Field Trip and Early Childhood Literacy Grants, yearly grants awarded to teachers who submit proposals, online application
One Class at a Time $300 grants monthly for teachers who write a letter sharing how they will use the funds
Ezra Jack Keats Literacy Grant yearly $500 yearly grant to teachers for literacy projects
Brain Pop Funding Page list of funding resources
Twitter, Opportunities follow companies and talk directly to them, enter contests
Professional Development
RESA4U Region 4 Educational Service Agency, offers PD workshops in GT Identification, Program Planning and Differentiation
Links to Past Presentations
Tech Savvy Teaching for All, AGATE 2014
Differentiation, Belgrade In-service, Summer Institute in Dillon, 2014
Growing Bloggers in the Primary Classroom InTECHgrated Conference, Bozeman, 2014
Nikki Vradenburg
Email: nvradenburg@lamotteschool.com
Website: www.havingfunink-1.blogspot.com
Location: 841 Bear Canyon Road, Bozeman, MT, United States
Phone: 406-586-2838
Twitter: @NVradenburg