How can Learning Score be used? What do teachers think?

The best answer to that is to ask around. Within a week of releasing Learning Score we are very excited to see some great reviews popping up in the blogosphere:

Doug Belshaw put together a great demo video in his post: http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2010/01/19/learning-score/

"Learning Score is a visual planning tool for educators. And. It. Rocks"

Tony Fox, and the people at Tutor2U.net said:

"after just 10 minutes on the trial version I was confident I could use it to plan and deliver lessons using it, in fact I think it would improve my lesson planning"

Doug Woods spotted it before we went live, and blogged:

"I cannot believe that I have not heard of or seen Learning Score before; I can only say that I must have had my head buried deeply in the sand. Learning Score appears to be a fantastic tool for devising lesson plans"

 

Thanks for all the good vibes!

 

Other quotes from our trials:

A "eureka moment”.

“I was planning a lesson a few days in advance for an introductory Economics class. Looking for inspiration and thinking about the range of resources and activities that I might use, I started the Learning Score.

Suggestions jumped out at me as I explored the various ideas in the structured storehouse at the bottom of the screen. Suddenly I saw "role-play" as a suggested activity and my lesson idea crystallised. Why not start with a role-play - acting out in groups of three the differences between a monopoly and a co-operative?

I pulled the “small group” icon onto the score under the role play heading. Next I added a PDF of a document which students can access on the web but I want to walk them through it first.  Next I added a picture to show the group - annotated with key vocabulary.

Finally I chose an assessment method to use at the end of the lesson I went for simple traffic lights -  hold up  red if you haven't got it, amber for not too sure and green for good to go.

Then I saved the Learning Score and added it to the departmental folder for future use.  It will be perfect for a supply teacher covering a lesson - they can see what to do when and have all the resources to hand”.

 

See what all the fuss is about - try it for yourself!

Example Scores

Saving Money

Positive Thinking

Personal goal setting


Learning Score is a visual planning tool for educators. And. It. Rocks