PLE Sites

Personalized Learning Environment... I'm nervous but very excited about it. It is going to be so much easier to do since we are going to have tablets in the hands of every student at our school, but that doesn't mean it's going to be totally simple! Here is a list of sites that can be used by students individually to learn, practice, and move at their own pace. They can be used as part of a lesson or as individual work that may be worked into a lesson.

• powermylearning.org : (FREE) games that students can play that are aligned with the Common Core! 
  
  
  
  
• StudyIsland.com : (NOT FREE) rigorous (but multiple choice) questions that are aligned with the Common Core. This site is not free, but many schools choose to purchase a license for a grade or for the whole school. Teachers can pick individual topics to assign to their students. There is a game mode that can be used for more entertaining question answering. One neat thing about the site is that there is a pre-test for the courses, so students can take them at the beginning of the year to get a taste of what they are going to be seeing. 

• KhanAcademy.org (FREE) Students can watch videos on so many different topics, some of which come with accompanying practice. As teachers, we can build classes of our students and see which videos they have watched. If you have a flipped classroom, you can assign them as homework and then confirm that they watched them this way. Hint: when making your classes, DO NOT think that you have to enter all of their email addresses individually! 

• ixl.com (FREE) This site has tons of topics that students can practice. A license can be purchased, or students can pay for an account, for unlimited access to this site. For free, however, everyone can practice a limited number (20) of questions per day.

The next thing that I need to check on is whether or not they are all accessible on a tablet... That's not always a given!