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Helping Students, Teachers, and Schools Excel in a Digital WorldFounded in 1999, Learning.com serves 5.6 million students each year in more than 20 countries. We currently partner with nearly 15,000 schools and 1 in 6 districts in all 50 states. Since launching our first K-8 digital literacy product, EasyTech, we have been focused on helping educators use technology to improve student learning. Over the years, we have grown into a K-12 company offering a suite of education solutions that support districts as they build students’ digital literacy skills and transition to digital content.

There are three evolving educational technology trends impacting K-12 school districts today. These trends have created seven unique challenges that Learning.com is assisting district partners to address.

K-12 Districts Making the Shift to DigitalAs districts continue to invest heavily in educational technology to improve instruction and learning in the classroom, they strive to ensure they obtain a return on their investment by increasing the digital literacy skills for all of their students. With the increasing shift to digital content, many, if not most states now require students to demonstrate their academic knowledge and skills through an end-of-year online assessment. These assessments require all students have requisite digital literacy skills. Learning.com helps districts ensure all of their students have the skills necessary to succeed in online assessments.

Growing Awareness of the Need for Teaching Technology SkillsOur students are “digital natives,” but that does not always translate to skills that will ensure success in school, college, or the workplace. Learning.com helps districts prepare their students for the digital world with critical 21st century skills. Not all students have the same opportunity as their peers, and not all teachers are prepared to teach these skills. Learning.com’s K-8 curriculum ensures instructional equity throughout the entire district. Our K-8 curriculum addresses specific technology skills at specific grade levels, as required in many national and state academic standards. Finally, educators and parents increasingly understand the critical importance of teaching digital citizenship and online safety.

Computer Science for AllDigital literacy and computational thinking are foundational skills for computer science and coding initiatives. Historically known as a high school subject, computer science and coding are increasingly considered a requirement for all students at all grade levels. Success begins in the early grades, and as with all other core subject areas, begins with the instruction of fundamental skills. Once the foundation is built, students can progress to more advanced computer science and coding concepts utilizing Learning.com’s K-8 computational thinking and coding curriculum.

Richards Elementary SchoolSCHOOL SUMMARY REPORT

WayFind Assessment Posttest 14/15 Exam Richards Elementary SchoolMeyers USD WayFind 2014-15

5/1/2015Assessment:

District:School:

Report Group:

Report Date:

EXAM OVERALL

Completions:Scale Score Range:

Scale Score Standard Error:Scale Score Standard Deviation:

26294 - 458

3.8140

Testing Period: 3/28/15 - 4/10/15

CLASS DETAIL RESULTS

CLASS # COMP AVG MIN. 100 200 300 400 500 SCORE LEVELWayfind Teacher Assessment 2015 1 26 48 369 Proficient

100 200 300 400 500BELOW BASIC BASIC PROFICIENT ADVANCED

369 - Proficient

AVERAGE SCORES

SCHOOL DISTRICT RPT GRP GLOBAL

INDIVIDUALS PER PROFICIENCY LEVEL

PROFICIENCY # % AVG MIN.

Advanced 8 31 % 48

Proficient 17 65 % 48

Basic 1 4 % 44

Below Basic 0 0 % 0

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Learning.comOverview

Prepare Your Students with Digital Literacy SkillsOur digital literacy solutions can help you ensure your students are prepared for success in school, college, and the workplace.

Equip Your Teachers for the 21st Century ClassroomOur teacher assessment can help you understand how well your teachers grasp 21st century skills.

WayFind measures teachers’ 21st century teaching skills and includes professional development that addresses the 2007 ISTE Standards for Teachers.

For more information, contact us as Learning.com/contact-us or 800.580.4640 x1

EasyTech is a self-paced digital literacy curriculum that provides interactive lessons, application exercises, activities and quizzes for grades K-8. This award-winning solution helps to equip students with critical skills including keyboarding, online safety, business applications such as word processing, presentation software, and computational thinking.

Inquiry takes a project-based approach to integrating digital literacy into core subject instruction for grades K-8 with six ready-to-go projects per grade level. Projects help students learn about productivity tools, internet research, multimedia presentations, online communication, and other digital literacy skills within the context of Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies.

EasyCode Foundations is a complete, turnkey solution for introducing students in grades 3-8 to coding using a real programming language – CoffeeScript. This game-based curriculum expands on the EasyTech’s computational thinking lessons to teach concepts like objects, function calls, arguments, loops, variables, arrays, and more. Students refine and enhance their skills with the Game Builder Courses to create their own games to share with family and friends.

EasyCode Pillars is an interactive curriculum that helps students learn key coding principles using Python, an industry-leading programming language. In each lesson, students complete a project through a series of activities that include coding challenges, debugging practice, and quizzes. Each lessons ends with an additional coding exercise in which students create their own project applying the skills learned.

21st Century Skills Assessment is aligned to the 2007 ISTE Standards for Students and tests elementary and middle school students’ grasp of 21st century skills, including technology operations, information literacy, digital citizenship, critical thinking, decision making, and creativity and innovation.

Digital Literacy Assessment is aligned to the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students and tests elementary and middle school students comprehension of digital literacy skills. This interactive assessment uses technology enhanced questions, provides the data needed to make informed decisions around instruction, and helps ensure students are prepared for success in a digital world. Accessibility has been built into the entire student experience and all question types are compatible with common screen readers.