Greetings, educators!
We at Public Learning Media are delighted to bring you news of several wonderful new Glean Learning Tools (www.glean.org) that you can use in your classes. We are proud to announce the launch of two Glean Math Tools and one new Glean Information Literacy Tool. We invite you to check out:
Glean Math
PEMDAS: (www.gleanpemdas.org) , which is designed to help teachers teach order of operations to their students. PEMDAS combines the idea of magnetic numbers with math expressions to provide a really playful, flexible space for manipulating numbers and understanding Order of Operations.
ComboCoin: (www.gleancombocoin.org). Inspired by the work of a math researcher, ComboCoon presents a slightly different way to explore multiplication, playfully, but competitively. It’s a great stimulating “do-now” activity for any elementary math classroom.
Glean Information Literacy
WhoIs: If information literacy and media instruction is your thing, head on over to WhoIs (www.gleanwhois.org) which has been entirely rebuilt form ground-up. WhoIs is an extremely useful information research tool that help kids make sense of the material they’re finding online.
More Coming Real Soon!!
We have two more really cool tools coming in October, Glean Our History and Engineering the Net.
Glean Our History is a data literacy and geography tool that helps you engage learners in visualizing how historical events relate to themselves and a classroom full of personal histories. We can’t wait to share it with you!
Engineering the Net is for those of you who want your students to understand how the Internet works. It’s a series of simulations and logic role-playing games – 45 minute lessons – that help kids understand the technology and engineering that make this modern marvel do what it does, while applying logic and collaborative problem-solving to specific challenges.
Dave Crusoe & Robert Sibley, Co-Directors, & all the PLML team
