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While many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.

Great little article about successful differentiation at 1 school with video clips.

This is a great 174 page document on differentiation that was put together in Ontario. Includes explanation of UDL and Differentiated Instruction and very useful templates for developing learning profiles.

This site introduces you to the options for using technology in your classroom, e.g. webcasts, webcams, current news sources, inquiry-learning. Even more important, it explains why it's important to make instruction meaningful, current, and engaging for today's students. This is a great place to start exploring your options for integrating technology in the classroom.

This website was recommended by Ross Powell in a presentation on Differentiated Instruction. Includes modules to learn about DI and examples of DI teaching (lessons and units) at several grade levels. DI is just one section of this website which also contains links to various subject areas.

Detailed description (and video) of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds. The blogger had created a wordle and covered up the words with with rectangles. Students came to the SMARTBoard one at a time to touch the rectangle and reveal a word. Then they used a spinner to tell them to use the word in a sentence, tell how many syllables, or give a synonym or antonym. The rectangles were colour coded by degree of difficulty so the teacher could differentiate instruction. You can download the Notebook file, and the blogger promises a tutorial for this idea.

Alberta special ed teacher's DI lists: strategies, framework

Good find! What a great summary of the basics of DI and its link to Bloom's Taxonomy.