Top 15 Tools for Personalized Learning

Dr. Devin Vodicka, SuperintendentVista Unified School District

Dr. Kevin Silberberg, SuperintendentPanama Buena Vista School District

Dr. Charles Young, Associate SuperintendentPalo Alto Unified School District

Dr. Lisa Gonzales, SuperintendentPortola Valley Unified School District

TICAL Leadership CadreACSA Technology Leadership Grouphttp://bit.ly/lead3top15

High quality videos of inspiring & exemplary teaching practices

Ties to CCSS, tips for watching and discussions, reflection questions, supporting materials

High quality STEM content (text, videos, images, quizzes, interactivity)

Teachers can innovate through rapid customization

Google product that curates open source materials Teachers can remix for specific groups of students –

review vs. challenge

Recommends content to readers at their levels Spoken-word audio, sentence highlighting, embedded

videos, forecasts reading growth

Millions of CCSS-aligned assessments, lessons, videos, resources

Can create entire courses or preview those created by other teachers

Nonfiction resources customized by lexile levels (readability levels)

CCSS aligned, no advertising, free basic version

Digital Storytelling

Great way to share knowledge while reinforcing writing, research, technology, presentations

Check out Google presentations, Emaze, Prezi, Haiku Deck, Projeqt, Voki, Glogster, Animoto, VoiceThread, Storybird, ToonDoo

Project Based Learning

Personalized, highly effective, voice & choice Research, document, reflect, convey learning

Focuses on behavior and collects data with behavior-tracking analytics

Parents can get feedback on behavior and engagement

Check out the Learning Dashboard for a personalized approach

Assesses student responses and refocuses toward skills to be mastered and new skills to be learned

Free from Amazon.com, math focused for 1st-12th graders (practice or enrichment)

Multi-response options like SBAC Hints available to reduce frustration

Promotes growth mindset Engage in virtual communities with online videos and

toolkits

Screencasting

Digital video & audio recordings to personalize student work

Create information-rich multimedia presentations Engaging and natural assessments Check out Screencastomatic, EduCreations, ShowMe,

Explain Everything, ScreenChomp, Doceri

Created by MIND Research with a focus on spatial temporal reasoning (math based)

Visually rich and language independent Game approach, work at own pace

High quality STEM content (text, videos, images, quizzes, interactivity)

Teachers can innovate through rapid customization

Connecting the Dots

We live in the “mashable” age Uploads to one platform can migrate to

others