1. Differentiating Assessment
for Advanced Learners
Using Technology
Robin Hawley-Brillante
Resource Teacher
Office of Gifted and Talented Education
Baltimore County Public Schools
rbrillante@bcps.org
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2.  Content
• What is taught and when it is taught
 Process or Instructional Strategies
• How content is taught
 Products
• Opportunities

3. Using differentiation in the classroom
means designing and implementing
curriculum, teaching strategies, and
assessments to meet the needs, interests,
and abilities of all students.
Kirchner & Inman, 2005

4.  Play – The capacity to experiment with
one’s surroundings as a form of problem-
solving
 Performance — The ability to adopt
alternative identities for the purpose of
improvisation and discovery
 Simulation — The ability to interpret and
construct dynamic models of real-world
processes
Media and Learning by Henry Jenkins et al from MIT, “Confronting the
1Digital
Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century”

5.  Appropriation — the ability to
meaningfully sample and remix media
content
 Collective Intelligence — the ability to
pool knowledge and compare notes with
others toward a common goal
 Judgment — the ability to evaluate the
reliability and credibility of different
information sources

6. 1. Identify the core concept
• What is the core concept, skill, or idea that you want to teach?
2. Develop learning goal(s)
• What do you want your learners to understand by completing this
activity?
3. Research
• Conduct brainstorms, discussions, and online searches to generate
ideas about how to communicate the concept to your learners.
• Challenges are multimedia and interactive, featuring not only text but
media elements (images, video, audio web links to online tools and
games).
4. Create or find media elements that will:
• Demonstrate the concept
• Engage your learners
• Connect well to your learners’ lifestyles and experiences

7.  Usingyour research, put your challenge
together.
• Four main challenge components (use all, in any
order):
 Concept
 Concept in context
 Your Turn
 Share it
• Other challenge components (use as needed, in any
order):
 What about You?
 Reflect
 Further Resources

8.  www.wallwisher.com/wall/flyinginthecloud
 www.tinyurl.com/flyinginthecloud