Shakera Bell

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EDU-225
08/23/2015
Sheila Damiani

Raft Task Card

ROLE (student)
writer

AUDIENCE
teacher

FORMAT
biographical

Row 1

Washington
writer

self

Journal

Row 2

Carver?
Who is George
Washington

peer group
Row 3

TOPIC
Who is George

biographical

writer

Carver?
Who is George
Washington
Carver?

RAFT Row 1
Target Grade Level: 5th

Objective and Standard: You will find out who George Washington Carver is and what he
invented over the years. (Research and Information)
Student Role: writer
Audience: Peer Group

Format: Biographical
Topic: Who is George Washington Carver?

Directions: Visit http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver9240299#related-video-gallery to learn more about George Washington Carver.

You are to find out who he is and some of the things he discover over the years.
Find one thing he discover and how he discovered it.
Your paper should resolute in 200-400 words.

Resources: (3-5 resources)

1. http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299#related-videogallery
2. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/george-washington-carver
3.http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carver-George-Washington.html

Assessment: 50 points each for the 2 questions and the paper will be read in front of your
classmates.

RAFT Row 2

Target Grade Level: 5

Objective and Standard: You will find out who George Washington Carver is and what he
invented over the years. (Research and Information)
Student Role: Writer
Audience: Self
Format: Journal
Topic: Who is George Washington carver?

Directions: Visit http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver9240299#related-video-gallery for information about George Washington Carver.

Read up on who he is and what he discovered.
Then write in your journal about who is and what he discover.
Resources: (3-5 resources)
1. http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299#related-videogallery
2. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/george-washington-carver
3.http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carver-George-Washington.html

Assessment: 25points for journal writing, 25points for information found, 50 points for
accuracy

RAFT Row 3
Target Grade Level: 5
Objective and Standard: You will find out who George Washington Carver is and what he
invented over the years. (Research and Information)

Student Role: Writer

Audience: Peer Group
Format: biographical
Topic: Who is George Washington Carver?

Directions:

Visit http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299#related-videogallery for information about George Washington Carver.

Read up on who he was and what he discovered.
Summarize what you have read in about 200-300 words.
Resources: (3-5 resources)
1. http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299#related-videogallery
2. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/george-washington-carver
3.http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carver-George-Washington.html

Assessment: 50 points for answering both questions and 50 points for accuracy of paper.

Section Four: Differentiating Instruction through Technology

Student-Centered Technology plays a very important part in the classroom for the teacher
and the student. Student-centered learning moves students from passive receivers of information
to active participants in their own discovery process. This process allows the teacher and the
student to get a better idea of what they may need to work on for improvement. Using
technology to differentiate instructions in the classroom will include word process, classroom
website, and ongoing assessment.

Word process will be used in the classroom to create many different things such as
worksheets, test, quizzes, and notes send home to parents. Using word process to create
worksheets gives the teacher a chance to assess the students capabilities in the classroom. Also
the worksheets allows the students to start problem solving and decision making on their own in
the classroom. The use of a different toola computer with word processing softwareto
complete a task traditionally completed with pencil and paper introduces a new realm of possible
differences in attitudes, interactions, instructional strategies, and written products
(Wood, 2000).
Classroom website will be used in the classroom as an educational resource to further
research instructions in the classroom. The students will be able to go to the website for many
different things such as questions, chatting, and other instructions. This website would be
consider communication and collaboration between the students and teachers. Teachers can
create classroom blogs as a place to publish student writing and showcase student projects, and
by extension, develop student ownership (Richardson 2006a).

Ongoing assessments will provide the teacher with better ways to provide the
instructions to the students. Each student needs to have an ongoing assessment to make sure that
they understand the lesson being taught at that time. The teacher can then decide who needs what
in the classroom and why they need it to improve their instructional skills. Assessment is the
process of gathering information or data on student performance to inform instructional decisionmaking (Nitko and Brookhart 2010). This will give the students a chance to problem solve
during the assessment and the teacher a chance to do some decision making. Once the
assessment is complete then the teacher will know exactly what needs to be done to help the
students improve.

Using technology to differentiate instructions could be good and then it can be not so
good in this case. The ongoing assessment is a great solution to differentiate instructions for the
students and the teachers. Whereas using the classroom website will not be so good because the
some students may not know how to properly use the website. That could become a problem
because not everyone is digital literate. The teacher has to keep the students in mind when
creating differentiate instructions. The whole purpose of creating instructions is to make sure the
students understand the lesson as it is being taught. The word process is another type of
technology that teachers use to provide instructions. This type of technology can be very helpful
because it provides the teacher with a way to make test and quizzes to assess to students.
Putting technology in the hands of students has many benefits. It supports their ability to
communicate, create, and collaborate with technology (Jenkins, 2009; Shirky, 2008), to develop
higher order thinking skills and to engage with course content.

Using technology to differentiate instructions in the classroom will include word process,
classroom website, and ongoing assessment. Word process will bring in the use of worksheets,
test and quizzes. Classroom website will bring in use of better understanding of the instructions
in the classroom. Lastly ongoing assessments will bring in something for both the students and
the teachers which is improvement.

References:

http://www.iste.org/standards/essential-conditions/student-centered-learning
Van Leeuwen, C. A., & Gabriel, M. A. (2007). Beginning to Write with Word Processing:
Integrating Writing Process and Technology in a Primary Classroom. Reading Teacher, 60(5),
420?429.
Frye, E. M., Trathen, W., & Koppenhaver, D. A. (2010). Internet Workshop and Blog Publishing:
Meeting Student (and Teacher) Learning Needs to Achieve Best Practice in the Twenty-FirstCentury Social Studies Classroom. Social Studies, 101(2), 46-53.
Conderman, G., & Hedin, L. (2012). Classroom Assessments that Inform Instruction. Kappa
Delta Pi Record, 48(4), 162-168.
Ritzhaupt, A. D., Dawson, K., & Cavanaugh, C. (2012). An Investigation of Factors Influencing
Student Use of Technology in K-12 Classrooms Using Path Analysis. Journal Of Educational
Computing Research, 46(3), 229-254. doi:10.2190/EC.46.3.b