1. T&L Education Webinar
Integrating Digital Curriculum in the Classroom
Sponsored by Learning.com
Produced by Tech&Learning

2. Introductions
Moderator
Marylyn Rosenblum
Associate, Tech & Learning

3. Today’s Webinar
Karen Talbert
Print vs. Digital Curriculum
Advantages of Technology Approaches to Curriculum
Michele Douglass, Ph.D.
Aha!Math – Online Math Curriculum and Interactive Whiteboards
Questions and Answers

4. Speaker 1
Karen Talbert
North American
Field Sales Manager

5. Print vs. Digital Curriculum
Print Delivery Digital Delivery
Complex programs Easy to use and modify
 
More than what you will Differentiated instruction
 
ever need Online – 24/7 easy access

Not very flexible – hard to
 Allows teacher to focus to

individualize learners
Heavy and cumbersome
 Captures and documents
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Depends on teacher curriculum components
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knowledge

6. Advantages to Interactive Delivery
Increases student participation
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Increases enjoyment and motivation
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Improves social skills
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Easier to learn increasingly complex skills
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Accommodates different learning styles
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Teachers ask higher-level cognitive questions
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7. Customizing Learning
“The proper use of technology as a
platform for learning offers a chance to
modularize the system and thereby
customize learning.”
- Clayton Christensen
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will
Change the Way the World Learns
2008

8. Web-delivered interactive

supplemental K-5 math
curriculum
Research-based instructional

model
Balances computational

mastery and conceptual
understanding

9. Speaker 2
Michele Douglass, Ph.D.
• 20 years as teacher,
administrator and
professional development
consultant to schools
• Curriculum author
• School improvement
coach

10. Why Change?
Effective curriculum

Research-based instructional strategies

Flexibility


11. Interactive Digital Curriculum
Effective Curriculum

Built upon big ideas that are critical to learn
•
Clear learning target
•
Scaffolds into increasingly complex ideas
•
Vocabulary is clearly defined and reinforced
•

12. Engaging students

13. Using with interactive whiteboards

14. Interactive Digital Curriculum
Research-based

Instructional Strategies
Student engagement
•
Addresses various learning
•
styles
Timely and specific feedback to
•
direct learning
Multisensory experience
•
Student motivation
•

15. Models of Multiplication

16. Quizzes that allow for feedback

17. Quizzes

18. Activities – Printable PDF files

19. Interactive Digital Curriculum
Flexibility

Target specific
•
educational need
Increase instructional
•
time
Ease of use for
•
students and teachers
Use in a variety of
•
settings

20. Implementation

21. Functionality to look for

22. “I am still teaching the class –
not the computer. I am still
engaged with my students.
Aha!Math is like a new version
of a text, but it’s not boring.”
–Kelley Crowley
fourth and fifth-grade teacher
Pine Valley Elementary School
North Carolina

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27. Helps teachers build strong math

learners
Flexible teacher-mediated

instruction
Instructional, management and

and reporting tools
Use in home, after-school,

community center, summer
school

28. Research-based curriculum
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Digital coaches for motivation

and feedback
Educational games for reinforcement &

skill refinement
Thematic context for mathematics in real

world
Aligned with state standards

and NCTM Curriculum Focal Points