Week 4 Technology
Week 4 of the Blended learning Coaching Academy is spending time explore how mindset can affect the progress of blended learning coaching. Those educators with fixed mindset have a much more difficult time with the change to blended learning than those teachers with growth mindset. For this technology project, we will be exploring two online adaptive reading programs that can be used with fixed or growth mindset educators.
ReadTheory
- Short reading passages based on the lexlie level of the student
- Adaptive reading program (Text will vary based on the answer of the student)
- Data is displayed for the students on the screen
- Daily and weekly reports are provided to the teachers
- Easy to use program for both the teachers and the students.
Tweentribune
- Articles provided by the Smithsonian
- All articles are free to use
- Leslie levels are assigned to the students and students must read the article at their assigned level
- Common core aligned quizzes correlate with each article
- Easy to use for both the teacher and the students.
Week 4 Technology Tools assignment
For this week's technology assignment, you will be exploring the free programs ReadTheory and TweenTribune. Watch the tutorial videos and read more about ReadTheory through their Twitter Channel https://twitter.com/ReadTheory
Here is the twitter channel for TweenTribune https://twitter.com/TweenTribune
Here is the twitter channel for TweenTribune https://twitter.com/TweenTribune
Check List
- Sign Up for ReadTheory and TweenTribune
- Create a teacher account
- Explore the tutorials for both websites
- Share a screen shot of your teacher accounts and post them to Seesaw.me