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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
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.
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
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:
Supporting You…
• In-person and online training.
• Researched-based, collaborative. educational solutions customized to meet your curricular needs.
• Emphasis on effective implementation and data-driven results focused on student achievement.
Professional Development
• Your outlet for “continuing education.”
• A forum to share, collaborate, learn and network with passionate educators around the country!
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