CK-12: Registering A Student
What is CK-12?
CK-12 is a non-profit organization that creates and aggregates high quality, curated STEM content. Their library includes over 5,000 super awesome math and science concepts and FlexBooks with multiple modalities for all learning types including: videos, images, reading, simulations, real world applications, activities, flashcards, study guides, assessments and more!
CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.
We need to go from today’s “fixed time, variable learning” to a “variable time, fixed learning” model or even better, “maximum capability learning” within a teachers constraints of standards compliance and other administrative rules in their region. This new model adapts to each student level, style, circumstances leveraging new digital tools to answer the more fundamental questions: “What can digitization do for the textbook?” and “What can digitization do for learning” instead of the more mundane “How can the textbook become digital?”. Leveraging these new tools to multiply and enhance learning resources (such as video, simulations, and peer learning) is a
key to CK-12’s mission. CK-12’s goal is to provide tools that can help increase student learning through engagement, and to provide more universal access to learning and learning content, irrespective of educational resources available for a student or region. Additionally, CK-12 aims to reduce the impact of educational resources needed (by teachers or by classrooms) by leveraging good teachers, and when teachers are poor, burned out or not available, CK-12 will provide direct access to students for their own learning.
Getting Started:
How to use CK12 in the classroom?
There are many modalities to CK12
1. Textual descriptions
2. Video lectures
3. Supplementary videos
4. Multimedia simulations
5. Interactive exploration models
6. Quizzes/exams and question banks
7. Examples of the concept in real-life use
8. Maps of related concepts
9. Web resources related to the concept
10. Galleries of photographs
11. Peer learning
12. Labs or other experiments
13. Flash cards
14. Lesson plans (mostly for teachers)
15. Scaffolding that creates a bridge between the current educational level of a student and the concept in question (for instance language scaffolding, or “dictionary or simplicity bridge” for bilingual students or remedial students respectively). Each modality may or may not apply to every concept. Most modalities can be presented in various languages and at various levels such as “remedial”, “at grade”, or “advanced”. We hope to enrich and diversify
many modalities for every concept to these levels eventually, especially with the help of user generated content.
Earn your Badge:
Register for CK-12 and submit a screen shot of your dashboard (looks like picture below)
