Alight learning is an internet application that personally engages middle and high school students, catalyzes better teachers, keeps parents informed and reports to administrators the data they worry about so they can focus on the teachers they care about.
It's a very modern and well-thought online program with the following basic principles:
- Real-time learning environments. In the Alight learning center there are synchronous activities where students and teachers securely collaborate on projects or assignments. They have access to relevant resources, a slew of useful modern web tools and real-time communication with each other.
- Always the best resources. All participants of an activity, use relevant resources (links, files, videos etc.). Only the best, most relevant, appropriate and functional resources rise to the top, as decided by the other group members. They vote to the best and ban the broken, so there’s no more information overload and irrelevant links.
- Knowledge is never wasted. The core of content of resources and activities are anonymously shared among everyone using Alight Learning. Our recommendation engine invokes discovery as the best resources and activities are shared with everyone.
- Personalized learning. One size teaching does not fit all. Alight learning activities can easily be modified to reflect the individual needs of every student. All personalizations are simply tracked and can be seen at a glance.
- Organized curriculum and activity reuse. On alight learning, every time activities are re-used, they can be preloaded with the knowledge of years past. Teachers have records of all prior work while quickly flipping through student work of only the most relevant ones.
I think Alight learning is a very well thought-through learning program. It is a place where students and teachers can work together in and out of the classroom. So a lot of collaborative learning takes places with a lot of interaction. This seems very effective to me.
It also seems very organized to me with a lot of resources and options for recording the work of learners from the past. It also offers personal guidance for learners who need it. The assignments can be modified very easily so the teacher can support the learner in the way he/she likes. It addresses the individual needs of the learners and that’s very important.
A final quality of the Alight learning program is the improving collaboration among students, among teachers, but also among students and teachers.
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interesting..
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHi Marlijne,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou found an interesting learning program. You describe it very clear. Also the your meaning about it is nicely written. You describe the positive things about it, but do you think there are negative things about the program?
Greets Lianne
Lianne, thank you for your reaction.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI think there are also some weak points about the program.
The learners have to know how valid a source is so they have to learn the skills about the validation of some resources.
The teachers have to be motivated for a different way of learning and in special for the use of technology.
So there needs to be some training for the students as well as for the teachers before they can use this program very well. They also need to be constantly trained and supervised by others because otherwise they stay in a vicious circle.
In my opinion, a good online learning program doesn't ensure you of good learning results. You have to train your audience and implement it in the right way to obtain good outcomes.