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Engage. Transform.

Achieve.

Diagnostic Assessment

How do you use

Discovery Education

STREAMING to

reach the 21st

century learner?

21 Ways to Reach the

21st Century Learner

with DE STREAMING

Cynthia Brown

Cynthia_M_Brown@discovery.com

Twitter | cbrown426

Mind map created using http://bubbl.us

All Students Learn and Think Differently

Source:

Kaiser Family Foundation. Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, 2009.

Disciplined mastery of key

subjects

Creating beyond existing knowledge and

syntheses to pose new questions

Ethical striving toward good work and

good citizenship

Respectful seeking to understand differences

Synthesizing arraying

information to make sense to self and others

Reaching the 21st Century Learner

Gardner, Howard. (2007). Five minds for the future. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy http://wordle.net

Leverage Media Assets from

Discovery Education STREAMING

to help speak their language

Videos

Audio (speeches,

interviews, sound effects, songs)

Images

Encyclopedia Articles and

Reading Passages

Theme Pages and Lesson

Plans

Builder Tools (Writing Prompts,

Quizzes, Assignments)

...and much, much more!

My DE – your landing page

Hook your students with

Video Segments!

Citations

made easy

Discovery Education. (1998).

The Ultimate Guide: Sharks [Full Video].

Available from

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

Use Closed Captioning to

Reach ALL Learners

To help students who are hearing

impaired

To help ELL students

To reach multiple modalities

To help struggling readers

To emphasize a grammar or

vocabulary lesson

To use in combination with a writing

exercise

To reinforce a concept

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Filter for Closed Captioned Titles

How to Download

Media Assets with Closed Captioning

1. Create a folder on your desktop.

2. Right-click on the blue download icon and select “Save Link As.” 1. Save the video in the folder you just created.

3. Right-click on the “CC” icon and repeat the same process.

4. Adjust the CC settings within your Windows Media Player. 1. Click here for step by step instructions.

2. Click here to read more about Closed Captioning on Mac computers.

Adjusting the Font Size

• Open the CC file in a

text editing program

(notepad, wordpad).

• Locate the line of code

that indicates “font

size.”

• Increase the font size

from 10 to 30

(or your preference).

• Save the CC file.

On Closed

Captioning

Closed Captioning

10 pt font v. 30 pt font

30 pt

10 pt

Closed Captioning for Mac Users

http://accessibilitytoolkit.hcpss.wikispaces.net/closedcaptioning

Now Available on a Computer Near You:

User Access

Planet Earth is

available to ALL

subscribers

LIFE is available in

the plus package

(including ancillary

materials) the day

after it airs.

Listen Up

Three Sources for MP3 Assets

Audio Historic

readings,

speeches,

music

Songs Thematic

educational

songs

Sound

Effects Rain, door

shutting,

animal noises

DE STREAMING Library of Songs

• DE Streaming has close to 466

elementary school songs on the

site.

• To find them, click inside the

Search box, select “songs”

within the Media box, and click

“search.”

• Download and save the song on

your computer, and insert it into

PowerPoint.

• Top it off with DE streaming

images OR create your own!

Example!

Songs that help teach

the English language

• Long vowels say their names. © 2005 Twin Sisters

Learning Our Long Vowels

• Learn about short vowel sounds. © 2005 Twin Sisters

Learning Our Short Vowels

• In words the consonants C and G are sometimes hard and sometimes soft.

Letters “c” and “g” Have Two

Sounds

• A song about words that start with QU © 2005 Twin Sisters

Q and U Are Friends

• Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the beginning. © 2005 Twin Sisters

Rhyming Word Rule

Build Literacy and Analysis Skills

with Wordle.net

WordSift.com

Another tool for visualizing text

Get the picture?

Great White Shark Opens

Mouth

One of 21,000 Images

If sharks could talk…

DE STREAMING images come

alive with Blabberize.com

+

Other educational uses?

And if you have

You have a multitude of games

to choose from – including one

on Homophones AND...

Jupiter Jane is your Grammar

Galaxy guide in this multimedia

game! For this mission you

select the homophone needed

to complete each sentence. This

topic has hints, word definitions,

and a video review of

homophones.

...one on Math Manipulatives!

Theme Pages!

Assess Student Learning with

DE Builder Tools

Writing Prompt Builder

Quiz Builder

Assignment Builder

Your students can become

DE STREAMING groupies, too!

Students can search for DE media assets (for the

products your school subscribes to), and they can

save their assets in “My Content.”

You can assign writing prompts, quizzes, and

assignments to your students and designate specific

media assets for them to interact with.

You can also differentiate for individual students.

Exploring the Teacher Center

Whether it’s a blizzard or

a trip to Europe, your

students’ can keep

learning while they’re out

with the ReadyZone:

Continuity of Learning!

ReadyZone: Continuity of Learning

STEM Connect

Use the calendar to help students connect the past and

present with videos tied to historical events.

On This Day…

Discovery Atlas A Virtual Field Trip Around the World

You

outs

ide

Web 2.0 tools and

Discovery Education STREAMING,

a perfect match.

Digital Storytelling

Student constructed stories on

academic topics utilizing DE

streaming media assets (images,

audio, editable video segments).

Notable web 2.0 platforms for to

engage them in the process

• An engaging alternative to PowerPoint.

• Students, parents, and education partners can view the VoiceThreads and leave comments.

VoiceThread

• Create image and video mash-ups in seconds.

• Teachers can apply for Animoto for Educators. Animoto

• Web-based platform for developing interactive, non-linguistic and non-linear presentations.

Prezi

• Web-based digital storytelling platform very similar to PhotoStory3 for Windows.

Photo Peach

Discovery Education STREAMING images, video segments, and

audio can be added to any of these platforms.

Digital Storytelling Integration Idea

“Finish the Story”

1. • Download a series of relevant images from DE STREAMING.

• Images can be thematic or randomly connected to the unit of study.

2. • Facilitate empathy and help “tell” the story by enhancing the images using

Picnik (http://www.picnik.com).

3. • Develop a digital story in PowerPoint, iMovie, PhotoStory 3, Windows

Movie Maker or other applicable web 2.0 tool with one image per slide.

4. • Create a title for the story and add relevant music.

• Do not add text or voice-over narration to the story.

5.

• As an assessment, have cooperative learning groups view the digital stories; developing a storyline that considers the title, and connects the images to class content.

Student 1: Starts the story

Student 2: Adds to the story at the next image

Student 3: Adds to the story at the next image

Student 4: Finishes the story based on the last image

Example of

Student

Roles:

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Thank you!

Cynthia_M_Brown@discovery.com