We’ve been developing instructional strategies for teaching K-12 students with podcasts, and along the way, we discovered an amazing educator community resource: HyperDocs. HyperDocs are digital lesson plans that are designed by teachers, for students. They give students access to all the content and instructional resources for a lesson in one organized digital space (learn…
This post is part of our series on App Smashing with Listenwise. Listenwise podcasts can be paired with Newsela, offering news stories and differentiated multimedia text sets on a wide variety of topics. We talked with two of our Listenwise Advocates about how they use Newsela with Listenwise to meet their teaching goals. Andrew Garnett-Cook…
Wakelet is a platform that allows educators to capture, organize, and share online teaching and learning resources. You can save any digital content to Wakelet – articles, videos, social media posts, PDFs, images and much more. Educators have been using Wakelet in many different ways, from portfolios to lesson plans, and now for Listenwise assignments! …
This post is part of our series on App Smashing with Listenwise. We interviewed two of our Listenwise Advocates about how they use CommonLit with Listenwise to meet their teaching goals. Many teachers have found that the short, interactive texts on the CommonLit platform pair especially well with Listenwise audio stories, and the instructional supports…
Guest post by Listenwise Advocate Laura Krenicki, a 6th grade world cultures/geography teacher at William J. Johnston Middle School in Colchester, CT Part I of our series on App Smashing with Listenwise. Last year, Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water was the Global Read Aloud middle grades book selection. We had used this…