What is LessonUp?

• Using Literacy in the Secondary Schools
• Year 3

Digital Resource Assignment

What is LessonUp?

LessonUp is an interactive tool used to enhance teaching and learning. It allows teachers to make their lesson plans come to life through interactive presentations that allow for in the moment polls, quizzes, videos, and other school related assignments.

Features:

- Instructors can share lessons with other users signed up to LessonUp

- Teachers can assign interactive polls, questions, videos, and articles on these slides

- LessonUp offers differentiation in many ways

Disadvantages:

- $8 price may throw some people off

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What did you learn?

Content Area Standards

Standard 5.0 History Students shall inquire about significant events, ideas, beliefs, and themes to identify patterns and trends and to analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time to make connections to the present in their communities, Maryland, the United States, and the world.

ISTE Standards

2. Leader: Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning. Educators:

    2a. Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology by engaging with education stakeholders.
    2b. Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students.
    2c. Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning.

ISTE Standards (Cont.)

5. Designer: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. Educators:
5a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

Reading Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words