May 2020: What’s new at Mindsets?
Mindsets Can Spark a Learning Revolution
All over the world, teachers are teaching and students are learning at home. Educators everywhere are doing an extraordinary job shifting learning online. But even at our best, a fully remote classroom isn’t ideal. Learning demands relationships.
In his book Together, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy argues that an epidemic of loneliness is affecting how children experience school. Now with learn-from-home programs in place, that loneliness is only getting worse for many young people particularly as many edtech tools are designed to be adaptive and isolate students even more. Fortunately, there is a solution: collaborative learning.
Mindsets is working with teachers and parents to help students collaborate creatively whether in person — like a family around a table — or online, such as in a Google Classroom — to promote both synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning during school closures.
Synchronous models can include a 45-minute online class with split screens or breakout rooms so students can work together on a Mindsets Challenge and teachers can join in, stop for review or do Q&A.
In an asynchronous model, teachers are assigning a Challenge and students are working independently, with classmates, or with family members. Either way, Mindsets can support relationship building in learning.
Since Mindsets’ cloud-based model works on all browsers and on mobile phones, we’re helping keep educators and students stay connected but physically distanced, all while learning math and STEAM.
Mindsets Open Challenges
We believe in sharing. And during the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to share even more to students and teachers who are working hard to keep up with learning and social connection. That’s why we’ve started a new initiative called Mindsets Open Challenges.
Until schools reopen, we’re experimenting with ways to share and are featuring a set of Challenges which we plan to rotate every two months. These Challenges are FREE for all to learn with. Each set will contain one beginner, one intermediate, and one advanced Challenge from the Mindsets Library, all designed for parents, students, and teachers to engage with real-world, technology-enriched, practical math & STEAM education.
This month’s selection includes Doggy Day Care, Sports Stats Predictions, and Eye-Catching Advertising. You will learn to set up a dog walking business; predict sports stats from three real-life competitive sports: basketball, hockey and tennis; and design a new ad to promote a very cool Le Bron James Nike sneaker. It’s one click to join. Start at www.mindsets.com.
We’re a finalist for the Best Emerging Instructional Solution for 2020 at the CODiE Awards!
For 35 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been the only peer-recognized program in education technology, honoring those like Mindsets for achieving excellence and innovation in technology.
Here’s what the judges had to say about Mindsets:
- I was very impressed with the authenticity of this product.
- I like that the faculty have the ability to keep track of each student’s progress via live interaction.
- Mindsets Challenges may encourage learners to become entrepreneurs and more thoughtful problem solvers.
- Mindsets provides an exemplary learning experience that is a model program for the Best Emerging Instructional Solution.
- I’d like to see this company create a full K-12 curriculum!
It is a huge honor to be named as a finalist. Thank YOU for all your support of Mindsets and the 1M+ students who are learning with us.
Negative Numbers & Astounding Finger Multiplication with James Tanton
Have you memorized your multiplication tables? If so, how high did you go? James Tanton will teach you an astounding finger (and toes) multiplication trick and why it works.
Live Class. Wednesday May 6
3:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm CT / 6:30pm ET
