CARY, N.C., June 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Teachers can
now combine classroom expertise, creativity and proven technology
to bring their ideal lessons to life. Crio puts the audio, text,
images, video and interactive content of Curriculum
Pathways® into the hands of educators. As teachers build
and share new, engaging lessons, the resulting library of resources
will provide students with access to innovative teachers for every
topic.
"Crio opens up hundreds of resources to educators, and
challenges them to feed their students' curiosity by creating
amazing lessons," said Scott
McQuiggan, Director of Curriculum Pathways at SAS. "We're
eager to see our large community of educators expand their reach
beyond the classroom, department and district. Their best
ideas can now reach students around the world."
Curriculum Pathways developers have spent years creating
engaging elements based on proven pedagogy. No programming or
development experience is required to use Crio, as its
drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to transform static, paper-based
lesson plans into interactive, online resources. Features
include:
- A library of elements including audio, text, images, video and
several question types.
- Customizable feedback with options for explanations,
suggestions and encouragement to promote deeper engagement beyond
simple right or wrong responses.
- A variety of question types, not simply multiple choice.
- Robust lesson guide area provides notes, strategies and
additional resources for the creator, or other educators using the
lesson.
- A portfolio for students to save, manage and send their
work.
- Options for embedding and sharing lessons.
- Integration in learning management systems including a variety
of single sign on options.
- Ability to share lessons publicly with millions of Curriculum
Pathways users around the world.
- Outlets for providing suggestions to Curriculum Pathways
regarding new features for future releases.
Faced with reduced budgets, districts across the country are
allocating funds historically reserved for textbooks to other
priorities. With fewer books, maintaining high-quality curricular
content becomes a top priority. Provided at no cost, Crio is easily
integrated into digital learning plans and can help districts as
they transition away from textbooks and go beyond digital
documents.
"In an era of open educational resources, Crio will create a
network of great teachers who empower students through the design
of interactive learning," said Marlo
Gaddis, Interim Chief Technology Officer for Wake County (NC) Public School System. "Crio
will allow our teachers to create, curate and reimagine learning
for their students. We are excited to leverage Curriculum Pathways
and Crio to support student learning in our schools."
Curriculum Pathways is provided by analytics company SAS, and is
used by nearly 4 million teachers and students. Learn more about
Crio and Curriculum Pathways.
Imagine the possibilities with Crio
Consider a first-grade teacher with a small group of young
readers who are struggling with comprehension questions. The
teacher knows her students well, and the things that ignite their
curiosity. She scours the library and online resources for content
to capture their interest and foster engaged, focused learning, but
comes up empty.
With Crio, the teacher constructs passages about the school
building, the playground, the local park, and the high school
basketball team. She creates a video of herself reading text aloud
to model fluent reading. The software's powerful answer-checking
capabilities allow the teacher to craft customized feedback to any
question type. Students respond to a series of multiple choice
questions, with audio files to listen to for each answer. With
customized videos for correct and incorrect responses, the teacher
validates or directs students to information that helps them
achieve new levels of mastery.
The teacher then assigns the new Crio lesson through the
school's learning management system (e.g., Google Classroom),
enabling students to access the materials from anywhere,
anytime.
Catch Crio and Curriculum Pathways at ISTE 2018
Crio is on display at Booth 874 at the International Society for
Technology in Education Conference (ISTE 2018), along with
CodeSnaps and other Curriculum Pathways resources.
CodeSnaps is a no-cost app that teaches coding basics by
enticing students to actively work together, hands-on, to control
Sphero, an app-enabled robotic ball that students command using
code and an iPad®. CodeSnaps can be used in any learning
environment, including traditional and blended classrooms, 1-to-1
or at home. The collaborative coding activity requires only one
Sphero robot and one tablet.
Students prepare programs together using printed paper blocks.
The blocks represent pieces of code, which students "snap" together
in a certain order to create programs to control the Sphero. They
then scan the assembled blocks using the app and run the program,
which the Sphero executes.
CodeSnaps is available for iPad through the App
Store®. Interested users can also download the app from
the CodeSnaps website, where they can view tutorials, print code
blocks and find ready-to-go lesson plans.
Crio and CodeSnaps are two of the more than 1,700 free tools,
resources and apps from Curriculum Pathways covering English
language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and Spanish.
Used by nearly 4 million teachers and students in traditional,
virtual and home schools, Curriculum Pathways increases student
learning and teacher effectiveness by targeting higher-order
thinking skills. Mapping resources to both individual state and
Common Core standards helps educators across the country and around
the world for free.
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