This semester, several teachers have begun administering assessments on iLearn. One of these teachers is Ms. Kelley Murphy, science teacher at Bryant. Kelley uses iLearn to create quizzes that involve color pictures, drag-and-drop fill-in-the-blank questions, and...
Transforming Education
Video Conversations in Spanish
Students in Mrs. Jedrzejowski's Spanish classes at O. L. Smith this semester have been using Chromebooks and the Screencastify extension for Google Chrome to record their conversations with their peers. Students are first given their task and are then invited to find...
Mr. Apple’s iLearn Writing Workshop
This week, Woodworth Social Studies teacher Scott Apple and his students practiced their writing craft with an exercise on iLearn based on the Declaration of Independence. The iLearn workshop module used here incorporates several phases, through which students prepare...
Digital Classrooms are Taking Miller by Storm!
At Miller Elementary, Shelly Klan and Iman Hammoud have their classrooms up and running using Google Classroom. Shelly's first graders made science predictions using the question module, while Iman's third graders used the assignment module to complete a writing...
Using iLearn (Moodle) to Teach Writing in 7th Grade Language Arts
Stout Middle School language arts teacher Marla Wiacek, together with co-teacher Nicole West and student teacher Ikram Alhassan, has begun using iLearn to help students learn writing skills in 7th grade language arts. Wiacek uses iLearn to make available an organized...
Model Courses Project UPDATE
Model Courses on iLearn have begun to grow exponentially. Over the past 2 weeks, the Tech Coaches have been creating model activities using their own pedagogical expertise, as well as content that has been imported into the Dearborn Educational Curriculum, or DEC....