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

Getting Smart is acknowledging people and organizations making a difference with the second annual Smart Lists. During October and November you’ll see about 20 ‘Best of’ lists, not in order, not exhaustive, just people we appreciate doing innovative work.
Today, as we gather with online and blended learning leaders at #iNACOL14, we are recognizing 30 providers of smart content.

Smart Literacy Content

• Literacy Design Collaborative: template-based approach to writing across the curriculum

• 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
• NewsELA: news as literacy
• 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

Language Learning

• 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
• Verbling: making language learners fluent faster *
• Presence Learning: online speech therapy #

Adaptive & Game-Based Math

• MIND Research Institute: visual game-based K-8 math #

• DreamBox Learning: adaptive K-8 math #
• CompassLearning Odyssey: adaptive when powered by NWEA MAPS
• Curriculum Associates, i-Ready: K-12 adaptive K-8 instruction in reading & math #
• Mangahigh.com: middle grade math games *
• ALEKS: adaptive secondary and postsecondary 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 #

Check out Smart Lists: 30 Ways to Learn Almost Anything for open resources for K-12, postsecondary and anytime learning resources.
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