Technology
Digital Learning Applications
To learn more about these digital learning applications, please contact the digital teacher librarian.
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Actively Learn is a web-based reading platform where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss texts as they read. Teachers can assign texts to students solo and in groups so that whole classes can read, annotate, and interact around texts at their level. |
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| BBC Teach offers free classroom resources to schools throughout the UK. Find thousands of free curriculum-linked class clips on BBC Teach to help you deliver lessons - all arranged by subject and age group. | |
| Blooket is a learning platform that is built in a gamified way. This combines quiz-style questions and answers with fun skill games that students get to play on answering the questions. | |
| Book Creator is an app for Google Chrome, a few other browsers, and the iPad that enables students to create and read multimodal digital books. It is a tool for enhancing student engagement through story creation and multimedia design. | |
| Boom Cards is an online platform created for teachers to allow for instruction using cards.. Allows students practice basic skills, such as letters and numbers, with a visually stimulating experience via any accessible device. | |
| Supplemental platform for reading comprehension. Includes fiction and nonfiction sources. Students are able to interact, answer questions, complete quizzes. | |
| Dreamscape combines the strategy and engagement of popular base-building games with imaginative reading passages and interactive questions to create a ferociously fun literacy game! | |
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Language development platform. Students can practice their language. |
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| EDpuzzle is a teaching tool used to place interactive content into pre-existing videos from a variety of sources, such as TED or YouTube, or into videos you have made. | |
| Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for children ages 12 and under. The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. | |
| Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question either through a video or voice recording, then the students can respond in a video or voice recording. | |
| Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. | |
| Google for Education is a service from Google that provides independently customizable versions of several Google products using a domain name provided by the customer. | |
| Illustrative Mathematics is a problem-based core curriculum for 21st century learners designed to address content and practice standards to foster learning for all, preparing students to solve problems, reason, communicate, and think critically in the classroom and beyond. | |
| Infinite Campus is a comprehensive, Web-based K-12 student information system (SIS) with real-time access to administration, instruction, communication, curriculum, reporting and more. | |
| Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions | |
| Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization. Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. | |
| Learning Ally is a leading nonprofit education solutions organization that transforms the lives of early and struggling learners through proven solutions from Pre-K through high school, to help students reach their potential. | |
| LiveWorksheets allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets into interactive online exercises with self-correction, which we call "interactive worksheets". Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher. | |
| IXL Math is a comprehensive pre-K through 12th grade math program. More than 4,000 topics cover foundational skills such as counting, addition and multiplication, as well as more rigorous subjects such as algebra, geometry, precalculus and calculus. | |
| Noteflight is an online music notation and composition program. | |
| Pear Deck helps teachers engage students in proven instructional strategies with real-time formative assessment tools that seamlessly integrate with Google Apps for Education, Teams, and Microsoft Office 365. | |
| PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. | |
| Discover the magic of math! Players embark on a journey filled with quests, battles, spells and rewards. Every battle brings more skill-building math questions. | |
| Students using Quill learn English grammar and vocabulary by fixing sentences, proofreading passages, and collaboratively writing passages. | |
| A Learning platform that offers multiple tools to make a classroom fun, interactive and engaging. | |
| Schoology is a learning management system for schools and businesses that enables its users to create, manage, and share assignments and resources. | |
| Señor Wooly teaches Spanish through demented and hilarious music videos. | |
| Soundtrap is an online digital audio workstation (DAW) that students use to record, edit, and produce music and podcasts. | |
| Civic Online Reasoning across subjects. Hear from the science and social studies educators teaching their students to sort fact from fiction. | |
| Mission US is a series of free online adventure-style games that cast players in the role of young people alive during extraordinary moments in American history. | |
| Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, history videos and animations designed to engage new audiences in a new conversation and shine a light on the stories that don’t always make it into the classroom and question what we think we know about those that do. | |
| Vocabulary.com teaches you words by systematically exposing you to a wide array of question types and activities that will help you understand all the meanings and nuances of every word you're learning. | |
| WeVideo is an online, cloud-based video editing platform that works in web browsers and on mobile devices. | |
| YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. |
Digital Learning Applications in Jeffco
All students and teachers have access to premium digital learning applications with their Jeffco log-in credentials. A consistent core set of applications allows for student data privacy aligned to state legislation and seamless access for personalized learning. This includes single sign-on (SSO) and integration of applications.
Resources
- Securly App
- Technology Use Agreement Folder
- Family Tech Guide (useful links and how-tos for Oberon students)
TechForEd
Students can access a Jeffco-purchased and managed Chromebook to personalize their learning.
Tech Support
Jeffco families and students can get support for device troubleshooting, password resets, system questions and more.
Data Privacy & Security
Jeffco has adopted safeguards for student data privacy and security.
Digital Citizenship & Wellness
Jeffco prioritizes digital citizenship and promotes the safe, responsible use of technology.
Tech for Ed in Jeffco
Jeffco Public School’s 1:1 program provides first- through 12th-grade students in neighborhood and option schools a district Chromebook. This creates an equitable and sustainable model for technology-enabled classrooms that prepares students to thrive in a connected, digital world in alignment with the Jeffco Thrives Strategic Plan.
All students can access a district-purchased and managed Chromebook to personalize their learning. This closes the digital device divide and addresses the inequities in classrooms to transform learning.
Students in grades K-12 can also access a variety of digital applications and consistent tools that give them opportunities to demonstrate learning in creative and challenging ways. Each of the technology tools supports students as creators, collaborators and innovative problem solvers rather than as consumers of information.
The program also allows for professional development and learning for teachers to use the provided tools and devices to transform student learning experiences. Having consistent tools and opportunities for teacher training allows for more challenging learning and student engagement and deeper technology integration.