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May 29, 2024Introducing Monarch:
The Tech-Forward Way to Lead Libraries to the Heart of Learning Success
Today’s K12 Learning is suffering. Educators are looking for solutions. Libraries and Librarians are undervalued.
And, it is not a big secret—or even a little secret—that there’s a huge digital access divide due to “inequitable access to connectivity, devices, and digital content,” according to the National Ed Tech Plan - Office of Educational Technology (NETP).
Today’s students have been born into tech, raised with tech in hand, and are looking for educators to provide a new era engaging tech learning that is critical-thinking forward and targets STEM and reading success.
Today’s educators are looking for a solution that ensures equitable access through tech on student devices with immediate accessibility in the classroom. As the National Ed Tech Plan suggests, “Technology [needs to] be a powerful tool to help transform learning. It has the potential to empower students to expand their learning beyond the confines of the traditional classroom, support self-directed learning, help educators tailor learning experiences to individual student needs, and support students with disabilities.”
“Technology [needs to] be a powerful tool to help transform learning. It has the potential to empower students to expand their learning beyond the confines of the traditional classroom, support self-directed learning, help educators tailor learning experiences to individual student needs, and support students with disabilities.”
Three key divides will better support teaching and learning. (2024 NETP plan)
- Digital Use: DISCOVER, seek, and find opportunities to improve how students interact and engage with technology. Enhance learning using dynamic applications of technology to explore, create, and engage in critical analysis of academic content and knowledge. It makes eBooks, Lesson Plans, Activities, Teacher Guides, Videos, Articles, Games, Learning modules, and more searchable.
- Digital Design: CONNECT and provide an opportunities-gathering-space where educators may expand learning and design learning experiences that are enhanced by technology; and
- Digital Access: ENGAGE students and educators. Help them gain equitable access to educational technology: connectivity, devices, and digital content and help teach accessibility and digital health, safety, and citizenship with easy ways to differentiate.
Today, there is a solution that addresses all three divides and serves them up in one awesome combo bundle:
Meet Monarch.
Monarch is that 3-tiered solution educators have been looking for.
Monarch is a unique, K-12 content discovery engine that creates secure and personalized digital search environments for your students, igniting lifelong learning for generations to come.
If wishes could don wings
and wings would lift us
to that one place
where librarians, specialists, and teachers
could go to find the every resource
they need and collect them.
Let them be searchable,
instantly accessible,
by grade,
by language,
by standard,
by individual student
with easy differentiators
on one search engine—
that is the beauty of Monarch.
Like the Monarch butterfly that uses air currents and thermals to travel long distances and sheer determined spirit to fly some 3,000 miles to reach their winter home in Mexico, Monarch was created to help teachers bridge curriculum to technology and help teachers navigate through the many curriculum standards with immediate access and ease while providing the solutions and differentiation tools to help classes take flight and land on the super-achievers list come end of year.
Monarch delivers. It allows districts to upload its many resources into one searchable library of teaching solutions like Learning 360, Sora/Overdrive, Gale, TeachingBooks and more.
Monarch. All the extras. All the hype. All in a one search engine powerful enough to do enough to bridge tech to engaged learning.
“As we work to Raise the Bar in education, it’s essential we focus on empowering teachers to become designers of active learning, using technology in effective ways to engage and inspire students.”
Monarch is exclusively distributed through COMPanion Corporation, creators of Alexandria® Library Management Solutions.
