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?
NoRedInk, LearnZillion, StudySync, StoryBird, Mangahigh, and Verbling are portfolio companies of Learn Capital where Tom is a partner. Pearson, Compass Learning, Curriculum Associates, Dreambox, FLVS, Presence Learning, and MIND Research Institute are Advocacy Partners of Getting Smart.
We used LearnZillion for short tutorial videos for students last year. There are tons for math/ELA. Great site and versatile.
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One language resource I found super helpful was http://www.arabacademy.com/. They aren’t free, but they teach more than just the language. There are also plenty of helpful pages about learning culture.
add http://justlearn.com to the list – an online marketplace for language tutors