Science4Us, VocabularySpellingCity’s sister site, has won a BESSIE Award for the Best Science Concepts Website. Science4Us is a standards-based, digitally delivered, early learning (K-2) science program. This is the second honor for Science4Us this month! It is a CODiE Finalist as a Best Science
ELL: English Language Learners and VocabularySpellingCity
The VocabularySpellingCity site and app is a unique literacy tool used by many millions in schools, often to help ELL students. Why? Because VocabularySpellingCity is a rare combination of powerful, flexible, inexpensive, and convenient. Teachers can start using it on their own, or
Hacks for Learning with VocabularySpellingCity
Here are some of the best learning hacks we’ve added to VocabularySpellingCity over the last few years. Enjoy, and may your students benefit. 1. Vocabulary and Writing. Students need both to build their vocabulary and to practice writing. A teacher in Davie,
Vocabulary: Shades of Meaning
Since building student vocabulary skills is one of the big development areas for our company, I’m thinking a lot about how to build elementary vocabulary skills in a more rigorous and nuanced fashion. Today, I’m writing about nuances of meaning but more
Educational Technology of Yesteryear
At VocabularySpellingCity headquarters, we collect vintage educational technology. We like to remember that we are not the first generation that is “revolutionizing” education. The leveraging and integration of technology into our lives has been a thrilling challenge and adventure for
Thanks for Bringing the Force of Words to Our StarWords Sweepstakes!
Hydrospanner, quest, apprentice. Awesome. Hyperspace. Hope. Here at VocabularySpellingCity, we had a StarWords celebration, and you brought it — the force of words, that is. Our members — teachers and their students, parents and their kids — took part in
Inspiring Young Minds in STEM with the “Nerdiest, Techiest Field Trip Ever”
NBC 6 News called it: “the nerdiest, techiest field trip ever.” A fifth grader described it as “The best trip I’ve ever had!” For the last three weeks, VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us had the privilege of hosting more than 300 elementary school students
Career Days, December 2015 at VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us
To celebrate the Hour of Code this December, VocabularySpellingCity and Science4Us will host over 300 elementary school students from the Broward County Public Schools with the goal of building interest in careers in coding and more generally to careers in high tech. To achieve
The SAMR Model and VocabularySpellingCity
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