Reading Horizons Elevate is an interactive reading program that is designed to provide differentiated reading instruction to students in 4th grade and above, including ELL students, struggling readers, and adults. The Reading Horizons Elevate software can be used independently on any computer or Chromebook with an internet connection, or with guidance from a teacher as part of a blended learning environment. Let’s take a look!
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FilterED is an adaptive, cloud-based tool that offers school leaders a comprehensive view of the current technology landscape within their schools and/or district. School leaders can use FilterED to get the evidence, data, and context needed to prioritize, implement, measure, and monitor ongoing technology initiatives. Using FilterED’s unique inventory, school leaders can answer questions like “What does the current technology landscape look like?”, “What is the cost of failed technology installations?”, “What kind of evidence can we supply in support of our learning ecosystem?” and many more. Overall, FilterED identifies strengths and perceived gaps/conflicts that keep an organization from growing and improving. It is designed to help school leaders understand your current state, and help you plan accordingly for where you want to go. It helps school leaders answer the question, “What’s the return on learning?” for technology adoptions and implementations. Book Review | VentureGirls: Raising Girls to be Tomorrow’s Leaders by Cristal Glangchai, PhD8/2/2018 VentureGirls is a new book from Dr. Cristal Glangchai that offers practical and accessible solutions for how to support girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Glangchai “argues that a key part of raising strong, confident young women is giving them the tools of entrepreneurship to engage” in STEM subjects, and this books offers solutions and suggestions for how parents, teachers, and schools can accomplish this goal. Dr. Glangchai herself is a scientist, entrepreneur, and mentor, and the suggestions from this book come from both research and her own experiences. Learning Ally is an audiobook reading solution designed to support struggling readers and help educators to bridge the gap for students who read below grade level. The resource is meant to be used by students with disabilities or as a response to intervention. Learning Ally houses a collection of high-quality, human-read audiobooks, along with easy-to-use teacher resources. Originally created for students who are blind and dyslexic, Learning Ally has expanded to include support for students below grade level and those with other disabilities and special needs. In short, Learning Ally is meant to be beneficial for any student who needs a reading accommodation. littleBits are a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that are designed to empower students to create inventions, large and small. They’re an excellent resource for 3rd - 12th grade students, and can be used to help familiarize kids with basics of circuitry, coding, engineering, and design. littleBits have been around for the last seven years, and I’ve had the opportunity to use them in K-12 settings as well as with the preservice teachers I work with. While littleBits offers a collection of great kits, this review will specifically focus on their Droid Inventor Kit, which allows students to create their own Star Wars R2-D2 droid, program it, and send it on various missions. This kit was originally launched in Sept. 2017, but their team added the coding functionality in April of this year.
PebbleGo is a research database from Capstone that is designed specifically for K-2 students. Students at this age are typically just learning how to research, read, and distinguish between fact and opinion, and this resource is designed with that audience in mind. Overall, it’s also more focused than broader K-5 elementary databases, and is meant to help those students who are just beginning with these skills. Let’s take a look!
myON, by Renaissance: Personalized Digital Libraries for preK-12 - Now Updated for 2018-20197/12/2018 myON, by Renaissance is an online, interactive, digital library with over 13,000 books for pre-K to 12th grade students. Teachers can use myON to assign books, create projects, encourage reading, and assess student growth. Plus, students can find books based on their own personal interests and ability levels, and they have a large collection of Spanish reading materials as well. It’s a great resource, so let’s check it out! DIVE-in Engineering from STEMscopes: An Engaging, Hands-On Engineering Curriculum for Grades 3-87/5/2018 DIVE-in Engineering from Accelerate Learning was built in partnership with the folks at the New York Hall of Science. It was designed to provide 3rd-8th grade students with an engaging, hands-on engineering curriculum that can help turn your classroom into a structured, scaffolded Makerspace. The curriculum provides students with practical, inquiry-based educational experiences that encourage exploration and inspire ingenuity. Study.com Teacher Edition is designed to help teachers increase interactivity and engagement in the classroom by supporting and expanding upon your existing curriculum. Regardless of the grade level or subject you teach, Study.com offers a collection of video lessons, assignments, and quizzes that can be used to supplement your existing course material. With over 22,000 videos in their library, all arranged within standards-aligned lesson plans, Study.com has an enormous amount of support resources. We have previously reviewed Defined STEM here at the Roundup, and it’s an excellent platform that offers an enormous collection of pre-created problem and project-based learning resources for all core subjects in K-12. Now, the Defined STEM team has released a new collection of online PBL training modules that can be used in conjunction with Defined STEM, in preparation for a Defined STEM rollout down the road, or even by folks who are not Defined STEM users. Overall, the online training guides teachers on how to effectively create, teach, and assess performance tasks in the classroom. |
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