Mimio has always been committed to delivering amazing innovation across our hardware, software and content offerings. Today, we are pleased to announce our newest initiative – a collaboration developed in order to work to close student achievement gaps. This new alliance gives us a unique opportunity to help educators leverage our best-in-class interactive whiteboard and student response system technologies with DigiCore’s common core standards aligned, integrated platform of supplemental digital math and language arts lessons and assessments for students in grades K-8.
The DigiCore content covers language arts and math, including algebra, and is developed for Common Core Assessment. In addition to the Common Core State Standards, the content is aligned to California State Standards as well as Texas Essential Knowledge Skills. The materials provide comprehensive lessons, practice activities, reviews and assessments that support the re-teaching of essential skills to students who are struggling to meet grade level benchmarks and prepare them for the higher-level thinking required in the new Common Core Assessments.
The good news: the assessments don’t stop at multiple-choice questions and matching activities.
The robust offering is constructed of response or short answer questions and provides more opportunities for students to explain their answers and show their work, as they will have to do in the new Common Core State Standards Assessments.
In addition, the DigiCore solution also includes a unique professional teacher development component that offers 16 strategies with built-in management directives that will guide all teachers toward successful collaborative instruction. By implementing the collaborative learning strategies, teachers develop important listening and speaking skills needed to ensure students take ownership of increasing retention and mastery.
Mimio and DigiCore Together
By combining Mimio educational technology with the DigiCore digital content and collaborative learning strategies, educators now have the ability to adhere to one of the most commonly-stated principles of effective technology integration – it must happen across the curriculum in ways that deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world examples.
At our core, we consider that how a teacher incorporates technology into their classroom management is integral to using it. All of us at Mimio and DigiCore are passionate about equipping educators with simple, practical and meaningful collaborative teaching strategies to increase student academic performance. We recognize that offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple technologies ultimately enhances the relationship between teacher and student. When technology is effectively integrated into subject areas like math and language arts, teachers are transformed into advisers, content experts, and coaches. And isn’t that what it’s all about -- making teaching AND learning more meaningful and fun?
To learn more about our new partner, DigiCore, please call 888-525-0005 or visit www.mydigicore.com
