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What is Actively Learn?

Actively Learn is a digital reading platform that provides educators with new tools to get every student reading closely. media type="youtube" key="OyNTpvlw2QQ" width="560" height="315"

What are the benefits of Actively Learn ?


 * Actively Learn provides educators with new tools to increase students’ engagement in reading;
 * Teachers' digital class in Actively Learn makes the reading more accessible to all abilities.
 * It contributes to a very interactive reading process.
 * It helps students and teachers get quick and meaningful feedback.
 * Actively Learning can facilitate students’ independent learning not only in classroom, but also after class.

Here is an Example of Actively Learn we created.

To make your own account/modules, take a look at the instructions/videos below:
 * 1) Create an account
 * 2) Add a reading text
 * 3) The program has a number of texts already integrated and also gives teacher access to text-embedded questions created by other teachers. Or, you can add your own after you’ve loaded a text to your workspace.
 * 4) Embed compelling questions/links/notes concerning the text you choose. Take notes for example, teachers and students as readers can insert video, pictures, ideas as notes. Students can provide peer response to each other and exchange ideas with teachers.
 * 5) Teachers set standards of questions for students of different levels.

To view a video tutorial on steps 1-5, click [|__here__]: media type="youtube" key="AeRfk97eigI" width="560" height="315" 6. Teachers will have to set up “classes.” Once a class is set up, Actively Learn will provide a “class access code” for students to use to access the module. 7. The teacher can then assign the created text activity to the class.

To view a video tutorial of #s 6-7, click [|__here__]. media type="youtube" key="bQ72cpAUcNw" width="560" height="315" 8. He/she will then have students set up an Actively Learn account. Students will use the class access code as part of their registration. Then, as future modules are assigned, students will automatically be directed to complete them upon logging in to Actively Learn. 9. Students answer the questions while reading.

To view a video tutorial of #s 8-9, click [|__here__]. media type="youtube" key="vNtb9XvEUCk" width="560" height="315" 10. Teachers collect data from ongoing assessment when grading. 11. Teachers adjust teaching plan to cater to students’ need.

Actively Learn Activity

Subject: Secondary English

Grade level: High school

Learning outcome: Basic reading comprehension, predicting text outcomes, and using textual support to prove student assertions about the text.

Activity: Book Talk after reading through this cool tool


 * 1) Teachers use Actively Learning to engage students in the assigned text about a target culture.
 * 2) Students are required to have a good understanding of the target culture through reading, answering, analyzing, reflecting and synthesizing.
 * 3) Students do the presentation about what they have acquired and achieved in this cultural learning process.

How can I use Actively Learn in my classroom?


 * English Language Art/Literature Reading Class **

1. S tudents can be engaged with the texts of diversified genres by answering questions, reading notes, or doing quizzes, etc. 2. Students can create their own questions, notes, informational links or videos related to the target reading. 3. Students can respond their peers, or their teachers. 4. Students can make comment on others' ideas/answers to the given questions. 5. Students can deal specifically with difficult texts in the moment by answering questions of different levels. 6. Students can get quick and meaningful feedback of their reading levels and tutoring from teachers.
 * Student Examples **

1. Teachers can easily have access to good resources of digital texts. 2. Teachers can share rich reading resources with other colleagues. 3. Teachers can engage students by creating texts embedded with quizzes, media, notes and questions. 4. Teachers can stop students at certain points in their reading and will not let them move forward in the assignment until the question is answered. 5. Teachers can grade every student in his/her class effectively and collect data as soon as possible. 6. Teachers can adjust their teaching plans according to the data and tutor students of different levels.
 * Teacher Examples **