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Monarch makes school tech innovations and solutions easy.
School technologists are seeking ways to pool resources, streamline teacher efficiency, and make a big splash when it comes to improving outcomes for student success—and, believe it or not, that quest begins in the library with one powerful tool: Monarch.
Today, we want to challenge students, provide tech-forward lessons, interactivity, and gamification. We want to be more innovation, information savvy and allow students to compile, connect, and critically review independently. What's nice is that we have quality resources, but its task heavy and time ladened, and this falls on teachers to complete.
So, how can we change all that?
Districts may shift curriculum resources into searchable lesson-plan factories that are integrated as one streamlined solution.
Meet Monarch.
Tech Innovators who are looking for that one overall merge-many-resources-into-lessons-plans product, Monarch delivers. COUNTLESS RESOURCES—eBook, Lesson Plan, Activity, Teacher Guide, Video, Article, Game, Learning module—merge into a ONE SEARCH ENGINE and it doesn't get much better than that.
Let's say you, as a librarian, lunch a study of sharks. You create a book club, and students enjoy researching, experimenting, and lavishing in the wonderment.
You can build in engagement. Ask them a research questions, provide the resources to explore, and allow them to solve it using thousands of well-curated content at every level, at every ability level for every student. As Edutopia (Sharma, 2023) suggests, "Students engage deeply in class when tech tools encourage them to construct ideas, collaborate with peers, and create unique work."
MONARCH allows tech to drive learning...
Spin content into a dynamic Book Club Shark Investigation
Spin resources into multiple levels of learning:
Students in Group 1-3 (K3), read Shark Lady and completing a Scavenger Hunt and manipulative Lego activity.
Students (4-10) read Dinosharks!, track a live shark and complete a TEDEd to learn "Why Are Sharks So Awesome" or "The Truth About Megalodons" (providing choice with quiz included).
RESOURCES shift quickly into Google classroom...
Create A Classroom Shark Study Activity or Lesson
Spin resources into multiple levels of learning:
Students complete the Shark Lady Scavenger Hunt activity independently or in a group.
Focus on Close Reading and ask for emoji feedback afterwards.
Turn Students into Shark Research Journalists inside the Classroom
In Groups, Students respond to questions, and are provided with resources to investigate:
Students create image of their shark and report their findings.
Add EBooks, Videos, Lessons, Games & Activities
Students may search for a specific Sharks like the Great White and explore
Select eBooks & Click to Search & Read.
Students watch videos and submerge to witness shark behaviors
They Select Videos & Click to View!
Teachers may click through to TeachingBooks and instantly add material to a Google Classroom.
Teachers may Select Books, an Activity from Teaching Books & Click and Add to your virtual Classroom!
Students Read Journals & Articles
Select Articles & Click to Read & Research!
They May Challenge Themselves
Select Games & Activities & Click to Play!
And May Report & Share
Students Select Printables + Articles/Photos & Click to Use!
Tech is the best way to help students DISCOVER, CONNECT & ENGAGE— so collecting and providing it a click away and online 24/7/365 days makes perfect sense.
MONARCH creates “equitable access to connectivity, devices, and digital content,” (National Ed Tech Plan - Office of Educational Technology, NETP). It uber engages, targets, differentiates, provides language support, and hosts the potential to to change tier 2, tier 3 students into success story after success story. It's that online, searchable creative, engaged learning , that allows students to soar. And it ensures equitable access through tech on student devices with immediate accessibility in the classroom and be able to differentiate with ease. Students empower themselves, learn beyond the classroom, self-direct learning—all while learning, retaining, experiencing, & engaging.
There is one place, one searchable space, to turn to: MONARCH.
As the 2024 NETP plan identified three key divides that needed to be bridged to better support teaching and learning, Monarch provides that three-tiered solution:
- Digital Use: DISCOVER. Monarch improves how students interact and engage with technology. Enhance learning by gathering dynamic applications of technology students may explore, create, and engage in critical analysis of academic content and knowledge: eBooks, Interactives, Quizzes, Activities, TeachingBooks, Videos, Articles, Games, Learning modules, and more searchable.
- Digital Design: CONNECT. Monarch provides that opportunities-gathering-space where students may investigate and expand learning and design experiences that are enhanced technology learning; and
- Digital Access: ENGAGE. Monarch students gain equitable access and take advantage of educational technology, connectivity, digital content and provide accessibility and digital health, safety, and citizenship with easy ways to differentiate.
Today, let's transform learning and serve up one awesome bundle of ‘edu-gameology’ for allowing student to engage their success.
Just like the caterpillar transforms into the Monarch, Monarch transforms students, provides easy-access to teaching tools and helps engage learners so students rise up, embrace gamified technology—because our students future successes depends on us.
Monarch delivers.
Monarch is a unique discovery place all learners will benefit from.
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. It allows districts to upload multiple resources into one searchable library of teaching solutions: 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.
Monarch is exclusively distributed through COMPanion Corporation, creators of Alexandria® Library Management Solutions.
