Artifact - Module # 4 - Technologies for Personalized Learning 

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Canva is a powerful web-based and mobile creation app that allows teachers to create engaging and differentiated content to personalize learning (choice boards, scaffolded activities or templates). Students can create content to demonstrate their learning including presentations, videos, and infographics. 

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<ol><li>Engaging digital media (videos, images, audio, text) for all grade bands and subjects with creation tool (DE Studio) and assessment tool (DE Quiz)</li><li>Accessibility (Immersive Reader, closed-captioning, doc reader)</li></ol>

<ol><li>Subscription-based digital resources</li><li>Can be time-consuming to push resources individually to LMS (Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams) </li></ol>

Discovery Education has digital media (video, text, audio, and images) that can be used to engage learners in learning various topics. Teachers can use the new DE Quiz tool for formative assessments (video quiz, standard quiz, and live quiz). Teachers and students can create content with DE's Studio tool including scaffolded lessons, choice boards, and more.

What Can I Do with Discovery Education?

8th-grade science - Adopt an element Students create a Tik Tok-style video report explaining an element they have researched including atomic number, features, etc. The teacher can provide a scaffolded template for various learners.

7th grade - language arts - Studying Shakespeare - Choice Board The teacher creates a choice board for exploring the works of William Shakespeare <ul><li>Choice board created with DE Studio </li><li>Includes videos about Shakespeare and his plays (using the video quiz tool, the teacher adds questions to create formative assessments)</li><li>Student creates a Studio presentation about what they learned about William Shakespeare</li></ul>

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6th-grade social studies - Biography of a country. Student researches a country and creates a book demonstrating their new knowledge. <ul><li>Include important facts</li><li>Import images </li><li>Annotate with the drawing tool</li><li>Use audio and video to help tell the story of their country</li></ul>

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Jen Hall Digital Learning Specialist

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<ul><li>Explore tech tools to support personalized learning.</li></ul> <ul><li>Gain ideas for using tech tools to support personalized learning.</li></ul> <ul><li>Examine the strengths and weaknesses of technology tools for personalized learning. </li></ul>

<ol><li>Flexible, collaborative web-based creation tool and mobile app with customizable templates for all subjects </li><li>Quickly and easily share scaffolded activities including presentations, videos, whiteboard lessons, and more</li></ol>

<ol><li>Lack of built-in accessibility features (no read-aloud functionality)</li><li>So many features and options can make it overwhelming for students learning to use the tool</li></ol>

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9th-grade math - Math in the real-world portfolio Students create a webpage (portfolio) of math in the real world Includes: <ul><li>Infographics</li><li>Images taken on a photo walk</li><li>Text indicating math formulas used to analyze items in the real world</li></ul>

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Book Creator is a flexible creativity tool in which teachers can create differentiated resources/activities for students and students can create content to demonstrate their learning in all grade levels (K-12) and content areas. Book Creator is a great tool for creating choice boards, facilitating learning stations and student portfolios.

Why does Book Creator work in the classroom?

Adobe Express provides templates and a blank canvas for creating activities including choice boards, station rotations, personal learning plans, and more. Students can create infographics, webpages, and videos to demonstrate their learning.

What is Adobe Creative Cloud Express

<ol><li>Flexible, collaborative creativity tool for all grade levels and subjects</li><li>Accessibility features i.e read-aloud, translation, recording audio, creating videos, embedding content, and more.</li></ol>

<ol><li>A small but growing library of pre-made content</li><li>The 100+ customizable graphic organizers are only available with a premium account</li></ol>

<ol><li>Flexible creation tool with customizable templates so teachers can create differentiated resources </li><li>Easy of use for students and the newly updated web-based design platform</li></ol>

<ol><li>Forced choice for content creation - some limitations on what students can create (media, templates, etc.)</li><li>Only specific formats for design (infographics, webpages, or videos)</li></ol>

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Jennifer Hall, NBCT Digital Learning Specialist

<a href="mailto:jlhall@apsk12.org">jlhall@apsk12.org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/apsitjen">@apsitjen</a>

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