SAMR: A Model for Assessing How Technology Affects Education (which I think obscures the most important use of technology in education) Updated Summary: The SAMR Model provided one insight: there are new things to be done not just new ways of
Who Owns the Learning?
Who Owns the Learning?
How VocabularySpellingCity Helps Students Own their Word Study
School: Can ‘school’ be more than a noun?
In the VocabularySpellingCity offices, we have some exciting discussions. For instance, must the word “school” always be a noun? I was in strong disagreement with an experienced English teacher (note, I have no such credentials). She argued “school” could only be used as a noun.
Tools for Differentiated Learning
VocabularySpellingCity provides several powerful flexible ways to support differentiated learning. Differentiated instruction means meeting students where they are and providing them appropriately difficult learning challenges. For VocabularySpellingCity, this means being able to provide customized lists, assignments, and activities to specific
List Management: New & Improved for 2015-16 School Year
It’s back to school time and we have just given our users an upgraded experience in terms of how they work with their lists. We’re eager for feedback. Actually, we’re pretty sure what we are going to hear since we ran
Community Partnership with Broward County Public Schools
VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us, a Science Elementary Program, are proud community partners of Broward County Public Schools as part of our strategy of giving back to our community on an ongoing basis. The 2014-2015 school year has been full of exciting events,
Summer Program Online
This is the third summer that VocabularySpellingCity offers a summer study program. Here’s what we’re providing. It’s for families that feel their students would benefit from some academic activity during the summer to either build vocabulary and get up to level,