Deep Sran, PhDChief Academic Officer & Co-Founder

deep@activelylearn.com

The Challenges Educators Face

Can Teachers Answer Four Critical Questions:

1. How do I engage all my students so they learn and learn to think critically when they read?

2. How do I help struggling readers when they read at home?

3. Are my students doing quality work when they read at home?

4. How do I prepare for the future of education: using 1:1 devices and e-reading to see student progress over time?

With Paper, They Can’t,With Actively Learn, They Can:

An online literacy platform (for any device) that allows teachers to reach students inside a digital text, to help and engage them while they read.

Actively Learn can serve educators’ highest goals for their students, by solving the most important challenges they face everyday.

Educators can do what is otherwise impossible in a paper-based classroom.

How Does Actively Learn Work to Solve These Challenges?

1. How do I engage all my students so they learn and learn to think critically when they read?

Embed questions in the text that function as gates;

students must think and write before moving ahead

1. How do I engage all my students so they learn and learn to think critically when they read?

Embed additional content to enrich the text and to connect the text more

closely to what students find compelling

1. How do I engage all my students so they learn and learn to think critically when they read?

Students can discuss the text with the teacher and peers--inside the text—

which promotes thoughtfulness and

collaboration outside class

Embed notes to provide additional information to fill gaps in student knowledge

2. How do I help struggling readers when they read at home?

Use questions to “chunk” the text into more

manageable sections; Enable students to check

for understanding immediately by viewing

peer responses

2. How do I help struggling readers when they read at home?

2. How do I help struggling readers when they read at home?

Grade and provide personalized feedback

while students are reading

3. Are my students doing quality work when they read at home?

Teachers now know where everyone is in the text,

which changes how students work and how class discussion unfolds

3. Are my students doing quality work when they read at home?

Students are accountable for their work, because their teacher and peers

can see the quality of the work as students read, including student notes

4. How do I prepare for the future of education: using 1:1 devices and e-reading to see student progress over time?

Actively Learn works with the texts teachers already

teach and the devices everyone already has

4. How do I prepare for the future of education: using 1:1 devices and e-reading to see student progress over time?

Data about student work, and student work habits, across assignments and

terms, to diagnose problems and build on

strengths

What’s Coming This Fall?Improve Writing Too

Notes WorthTaking

Students can tag and categorize all their notes, so they can access notes in later courses and years

and use notes to write more effectively

ConnectingKnowledge to Create Knowledge

See the main themes and connections in a single

text or across texts based on the tags in students’

notes; Aids knowledge creation

Reading to Prewriting

Notes taken while reading can be converted into a working outline to begin

prewriting

WritingInstruction

Teachers can create scaffolded writing

assignments that guide students as they write, and create automatic

reports of student work for teachers

Writing withTeacher and Peer Review

Teachers and peers can provide feedback on

student writing; teachers can check on student

revisions for each draft

Conclusion

How Actively Learn Improves Learning

1. Requires close reading, and writing while reading, to promote critical thinking

2. Makes texts more meaningful and accessible for struggling readers

3. Encourages students to complete quality work

4. Makes the future of electronic reading, data collection, and data analysis easy for teachers and school districts

Actively Learn Can Be DeployedNow

1. Can be deployed immediately, on the devices everyone already uses

2. Saves educators time and effort, so they can focus on what they love most about teaching

3. Saves money on devices, book purchases, copies, data collection, and data analysis

Thank You and Questions