Learning From Home Challenge Part 2

Resources for Learning From Home - Using IXL

Learning from home in full-swing. Teachers are using different online resources to continue educating their students - posting assignments and lessons. Students are at home, using their laptops, Ipads, or cell phones to complete their assignments online. One online resource that teachers use to help their students in the area of math is IXL.

For my blog, I focused on using IXL for math assignments.

IXL is a resource teachers use to provide their students with assignments to do from the comforts of their living room. This program can be used in many different ways.

I wanted to focus on finding an online resource tool that allows teachers to keep up with their student's progress, and gives them the ability to adapt their lessons based on the data they collect from the online results. When talking about teaching and learning online, I think IXL is a great a way for teachers to keep up with student progress, and for students to keep up with their own progress.

IXL provides teachers with real-time data to stream while students are working. The diagnostic results help teachers understand what students know. Using those results, teachers can adjust their lessons to meet the need of the students. The up-to-date view of students' proficiency allow the teachers to make smart decisions to help better students who are displaying difficulties in that particular lesson. 

Teachers are able to see students score and record them in their grade book right from home.

There are many reasons why IXL is good for students to use while learning from home.

It can be hard for students to understand why they got an answer from when working online from home. Some require a detailed explanation for why they got that answer wrong. The teacher would be the best resource for that explanation, but learning from home does not allow students to communicate with their teachers effectively. IXL provides students with detailed explanations of questions and answers. It explains the answer in detail step-by-step for the student to understand why their answer was wrong or right.

Students can access IXL right from. They can use this resource for practice as well. 

Comments

  1. HMontgomeryApril 1, 2020 at 6:24 PM

    I like IXL but you have to subscribe to it. I was only able to complete 10 problems before I reached my limit for the day.
    If you have a subscription: I love that you can find deficits in the students learning by the data provided. It has a lot of good online practice. It shows one problem at a time and when you get it wrong, it will explain in detail how to solve it. Good pick!

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  2. MelissaApril 5, 2020 at 1:32 PM

    IXL seems like a great Math resource for teachers. It should be a great way for teachers to keep up with student progress and a fun way for students to practice skills.

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  3. Rod CarnillApril 13, 2020 at 11:36 AM

    IXL has opened up the trial membership to 90 days for educators...if you wanted to give it a try or dig a little deeper. It does seem like they have a lot of good support and get started guides for teachers and students. I do like the way IXL has organized the content and aligned with standards.

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