Smart List: 30 Next-Gen Literacy, Language & Math Resources

This month Getting Smart is acknowledging people and organizations making a difference with a series of back to school top 10 lists. During August we will run about 40 ‘best of’ lists, not in order, not exhaustive, just people we appreciate.

Today we are recognizing 30 providers of smart content.

Smart Literacy Content

• Pearson Common Core System of Courses for iPad: new & very cool

• Scholastic Read 180: widely used secondary literacy accelerator

• Compass Learning Odyssey: K-12 content powered by NWEA MAPS

• LearnZillion.com: PD videos for teachers

• NoRedInk.com:  better grammar

• StudySync: critical thinking about great literature

• Storybird.com: create, read, and share visual stories

• Achieve 3000: online differentiated instruction

• Edmentum Reading Suite: K-12 solutions

• LIteracy Design Collaborative: template-based approach to literacy

Language Learning

• Verbling: making language learners fluent faster

• Rosetta Stone: leader in language learning

• WeSpeke: real conversations; IP from Carnegie Mellon

• Middlebury Interactive Languages: Powers K12 language courses  

• Duolingo: solid free resource (mostly European languages)

• Voxy: learn English on the move

• Busuu: vocabulary and phrases supported by dialogues

• Foreign Services Institute: language learning materials for free personal use

• Florida Virtual School: full range of online language courses

• Pimsler: Simon & Schuster’s comprehensive language catalog

• Bonus– Presence Learning: online speech therapy

Adaptive & Game-Based Math

• MIND Research Institute: visual game-based K-5 math

• DreamBox Learning: adaptive K-5 math #

• Compass Learning Odyssey: adaptive when powered by NWEA MAPS

• Curriculum Associates, i-Ready: K-12 adaptive K-8 instruction

• Mangahigh.com: middle grade math games

• ALEKS: adaptive secondary math

• Motion Math: elementary math games for iPad

• Carnegie Learning: middle & high school math

• Reasoning Mind adaptive middle grade math

• Scholastic Math 180: secondary math intervention program

What would you add to the list?