Learning.com

FEBRUARY 2023

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SLIDE DECK: https://bit.ly/LCOMHBMUFEB23

Audrey Long - DPI Product Manager for Learning.com

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Tiffany Kinney - Manager, State Program Managers w/Learning.com

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Brian Rose - SVP for Bus. Development & Strategic Partnerships w/Learning.com

February 6-9, 2023

11:00am & 1:15pm

• Funding - 2022-2023
• Learning.com YOY
• Intent to Use Survey 23-24
• Did you know? LCOM Helpful tips
• What’s New
• Coming Soon
• Practice and Application as part of the Learning.com Learning Cycle
• Adaptive Keyboarding Contest
• Prep for Online Assessments
• CIPA
• Resources and Support
• Questions

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NCDPI K-8 Digital Literacy Initiative Learning.com funding for 2023 was allotted in October, 2022.

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If your district’s funds were reverted contact me as soon as possible so that I can assist you in having them allotted back to your account. audrey.long@dpi.nc.gov

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2021-2022 Allotment Policy Manual (reference pg. 62)

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FUNDING 2022 - 2023

K-8 Digital Literacy Initiative

46 participating PSUs for the 22-23 School Year

2021-2022 Data

2022-2023 Data (as of 2/1/23)

Engaged students- Number of students that have logged into Learning.com/utilizing Learning.com (this is not the total number of licenses that the PSU has access to)

Total launches- total number of curriculum items that students have launched in the platform

Unique items- Each curriculum item is unique and this is the total number of unique curriculum items that have been launched utilized by a district.

Intent to use SURVEY for 23-24

MARCH, 2023

The Time on Task Report

Shows you the amount of time each student has spent on curriculum items.

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Application Exercises

Content Curriculum> Course Content> Practice and Application help reinforce what your students have learned.

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LCOM has a curriculum to Prep for Online Assessments.

To prepare students for online assessments.

LCOM Helpful Tips

What’s New: Platform Updates

Tech & Communities

Elementary School Objectives (Kindergarten - 2nd Grade)

• The student demonstrates an understanding that technology is dynamic and impacts different communities.
• identify examples of how technology has impacted different communities
• analyze how technology impacts different communities

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What’s New: Platform Updates

Creativity & Innovation

Elementary School Objectives (3rd - 5th Grade)

• The student demonstrates an understanding that technology is dynamic and impacts different communities.
• define emerging technologies
• identify example of emerging technologies
• predict how emerging technologies may impact different communities

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What’s New: Platform Updates

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Creativity & Innovation

Middle School Objectives

• The student demonstrates a thorough understanding of the role of technology throughout history and its impact on societies through:
• areas of study
• global trends

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Tech & Communities and Creativity & Innovation

Things to Know:

• Each unit and module will follow the applicable grade-level learning path
• New Curriculum Unit and Module List

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What’s New: Announcement

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Learning.com has acquired Codesters

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Note: Coding curriculum is still available as before, you will now need to add assignments to your classes or groups.

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Coming Soon

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• For Grades K-2
• New Keyboarding Game
• Data Literacy
• 3-5
• Communicating and Publishing Data Related Results
• Teacher Center Enhancements
• Ability to create custom items/units

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Online Training Center

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Adaptive Keyboarding Contest

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North Carolina Statewide Contest

Starts- February 1, 2023

Ends- April 2, 2023

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Winners announced mid-April

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Prep for Online Assessments Unit are found in Teacher Center > Library

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Teacher Experience: Find & Assign

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• Easy to assign
• Automatically graded
• Immediate scores to show class and individual student data
• Online Assessment Skills Practice included

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Student Experience: Online Assessment Skills Practice

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• Include icons and tools similar to what a student would experience during an online assessment
• Settings (change color scheme, change font size)
• 12 questions with visual progress tracking for students
• Variety of question types
• Audio support in English
• Approximately 20 minutes long
• Student will not be able to “turn in” until all questions are answered
• Earn 3 stars for completion
• Earn 100% for completion (regardless of correct answers on practice)
• A lesson plan with basic details is included

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Recommendations for use

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• Assign the Prep for Online Assessments learning path into an “assessment prep” class so that students are able to focus on the digital literacy skills that are the most applicable to completing an online assessment and have the ability to transfer and apply those skills in a practice environment.

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• Assign the Intro to Pointer Devices unit to students who have never used a technological device (laptop, computer, tablet) that requires the use of a pointer device. Note that these are the PK-1st grade instructional components found in EasyTech.

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Online Training Center

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Content & Curriculum

• Prep for Online Assessment Unit

Explore our free online courses to receive training when you want, go at your own pace, and re-visit as often as you like.

Helpful resources:

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• Prep for Online Assessments & Keyboarding video
• Prep for Online Assessment – student introduction video
• POA Curriculum Map (download)

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Meeting CIPA Requirements

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Digital Citizenship

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Online Safety

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Awareness and response to Cyberbullying

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Required CIPA Topics

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Covered by the following EasyTech curriculum learning experiences:

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• Student - Driven or Tech Quest
• Blended

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→ Curriculum maps can be found under Teacher Resources and the Updates Blog in the Online Training Center. CIPA topics are marked with an asterisks (*)for reference; generally the first few items in sequence

→ More information on Understanding CIPA and E-Rate Compliance

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Monitoring CIPA Compliance

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Coordinator Report:

• CIPA Compliance for E-Rate
• Reminder: Students can complete any one curriculum item on cyberbullying OR digital citizenship to be marked “yes”

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CIPA Initiative: Safe and Kind Online Hero

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Goals:

• Fun way to recognize schools providing instruction on how to safely communicate online and cyberbullying awareness and response
• Provide the benefit to districts/schools of becoming CIPA compliant
• Increase district-wide usage

For more information, refer to email communication or click HERE.

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Schools can earn a Learning.com “Safe and Kind Online Hero” digital badge. Goals and targets will be set forth by the PSU.

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Upcoming Events

Registration is open!

• Session and booth details to come

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Professional Development

• New training topics
• Library of in instructor-led training topics
• No extra charge, included in LCOM subscription
• Contact Tiffany for PD needs

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• Online Training Center
• Self-paced Learning Courses
• Updates Blog
• Community Forums

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Mid-year Review Meetings (in progress- contact Tiffany)

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Resources and Support

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Learning.com Webpage: www.learning.com

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Learning.com Support Page: support.learning.com

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Online Training Center: https://www.learning.com/online-training-center/

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Our support team is available to help you weekdays from 7am – 6pm EST.

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EMAIL:  support@learning.com or CHAT feature

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We Want to Hear from You!

Teaching & Learning Survey

https://bit.ly/TeachAndLearnSurvey