The CEC platform is a Canadian digital learning that covers K-12 curriculum and is used by more than 12 million students. With over 8,500 skills in math, English language arts, science, social studies, and second language, this is a very comprehensive service.
By using a curriculum base, actionable analytics, real-time diagnostics, and personalized guidance, educators are given the tools to help students target specific learning goals.
The ‘immersive learning experience,’ as it’s described, has so far answered more than 91 billion questions worldwide. You can even view a counter of this number on the CEC website, which is going up at about 1,000 questions per second. (Once you will be a member)
[read more style=”color:#f2944f;”] CEC, at its most basic, is a targeted learning tool. It offers experiences for students, tailored to their age group by specific subject and topic. By offering analytics and recommendations, it is able to help support teaching and learning with a very focused outcome.
While there are plenty of high school subject-specific lessons, in game form, you also have access to games that focus on the fundamentals too.
Both math and language arts cover pre-K right up to grade 12. The math side offers equations, graphing, and fraction comparisons, while the language work focuses on grammar and vocabulary skills. [/read]
CEC works by offering skills that students practice, one at a time, earning them points and ribbons when they get questions correct. Once 100 points are collected for a certain skill, they are awarded a stamp in their virtual book. Once multiple skills are mastered, they can earn virtual prizes. The SmartScore goal, as it’s known, helps keep students focused and working toward a target. The SmartScore adapts based on difficulty, so it’s not discouraging to get something wrong but rather adaptive to help each student progress to the next level of difficulty suited to them.
[read more] There are lots of drill-and-practice options that allow for independent work, making this a great option for remote learning /offline learning and homework-practices. Since CEC offers plenty of feedback, it’s possible to help students improve very rapidly with specific, targeted training.
Teachers can recommend or assign specific skills to students. They’re given a code that they can type in then they’re taken to those skills. Before starting, students can select “learn with an example” to see how the skill works, showing them how to solve a problem. They can then begin practicing at their own pace. The SmartSkill score is always viewable to the right, going up and down as correct and wrong answers are entered. [/read]
CEC is smart, so it can learn what a student needs to work on and offer new experiences to suit their needs. The built-in real-time diagnostic evaluates learners on a deep level to work out their exact proficiency level in any subject. This then creates a personalized action plan that can be used to guide each student so they’re working on the best possible growth path. If stuck during a skill, it’s possible to scroll to the bottom where other skills are listed, which can help to build up knowledge and understanding so the student can better take on the skill at hand. Recommendations work as a way to pick up skills that may help fill in blank areas in which students could benefit from expanding their knowledge and skills. This is a great way to work using the app, to help students learn independently while still being focused on curriculum-specific goals.
The analytics from all this student-specific data can be used by teachers, clearly laid out, to help them see where students need to focus. This shows both parents and teachers where the student is having trouble and how prepared they are to meet learning standards. For teachers, there are both class and individual reports that include item analysis, usage, and trouble spots.
Digital tools can save teachers a lot of time. Test generators can create assessments in seconds, online management tools that can help teachers provide quick feedback to learners. Understanding a task can allow an instructor to save valuable class time for additional learning opportunities.
The opportunity to help every student learn all the best pace and path for them is the most important benefit of digital learning. Digital learning tools and technology enable educators to rapidly share information with other educators in real time. The explosion of free and open content tools has created an environment sharing economy.
