ACTIVE READING
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What is Actively Learn?
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Actively Learn is an online reader that enables teachers to guide, monitor and improve student learning. Actively Learn was co-founded by Dr. Deep Sran, a former teacher, curriculum director, and founder of a private school in Virginia, with goal to make students love reading.
Teachers can use one of over 150 digital texts embedded with Common Core-aligned questions designed to promote critical thinking or add their own questions to better suit their particular students. They can engage with their students when they read and monitor their progress in real-time.
Students now know where to focus their attention when reading, and with proper background knowledge, readings becomes easier to understand. Students can also engage with their peers, discussing the readings or questions in real-time.
Teachers can use one of over 150 digital texts embedded with Common Core-aligned questions designed to promote critical thinking or add their own questions to better suit their particular students. They can engage with their students when they read and monitor their progress in real-time.
Students now know where to focus their attention when reading, and with proper background knowledge, readings becomes easier to understand. Students can also engage with their peers, discussing the readings or questions in real-time.
Zoom In!
This three-year project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will create, test, and scale a suite of digital tools that will help teachers develop effective instructional routines and their own curricular resources for teaching middle-school social studies and history with primary sources.
Zoom In! Tools for Teaching Literacy in the Social Studies will be a set of digital tools that support social studies teachers in aligning their teaching with the Common Core Literacy Standards. The focus of the project will be the development of a set of interactive analysis tools that teachers can use to help students develop habits of reading and writing using evidence from primary and secondary sources.
Zoom In! will help social studies teachers learn how to:
EDC has partnered with the American Social History Project (ASHP) as content and pedagogy developers, and with Blenderbox as designers and technology developers.
Zoom In! Tools for Teaching Literacy in the Social Studies will be a set of digital tools that support social studies teachers in aligning their teaching with the Common Core Literacy Standards. The focus of the project will be the development of a set of interactive analysis tools that teachers can use to help students develop habits of reading and writing using evidence from primary and secondary sources.
Zoom In! will help social studies teachers learn how to:
- Read complex texts for evidence and perspective
- Anticipate and address the reading challenges their students will face
- Lead sustained, focused discussions of challenging texts in the social studies classroom.
EDC has partnered with the American Social History Project (ASHP) as content and pedagogy developers, and with Blenderbox as designers and technology developers.