WP-Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Digital Tools and Usage

Digital Tools and UsageRationale
Personalized learning may rely on a variety of electronic or digitized resources to set up a program of study and to monitor student acquisition and/or progress towards desired outcomes. The following lists the tools that are currently being used in Sun West School Division and have been purchased either by the division or via school based budgets. There are also a number of free resources that are utilized and due to the rapid increase of innovation, the resources are constantly changing and being added to. PLEASE NOTE: Items with a * are core resources as identified by the provincial curriculum.

Division Purchased

*Pearson Etexts (Grades 3-9) Science/Social/ELA/Math
Moodle – Learning Management System (LMS)
*Mathletics – (Grades 1-9)
Cogmation Robotics Software (Grades 5-10)
Lego Mindstorms Software and Kit (Grades 5-10)
Scratch (coding/animation)
FITSTATS
Polar Heart Rate Monitor Software
Auto CAD/Inventor/Revit – PAA Drafting Software
Adobe Creator Suite
CD-X Mechanics Software
Read LIVE (Tier 3 reading Intervention – Roadways)
*SaskCareers (Career Planning/E Portfolio Career guidance)
Pearson Inform
3D Printing Software/CNC Plasma Cutter (PAA – designated school sites)
Rosetta Stone

Division Created and/or Provincially provided

Sun West Distance Learning Centre (DLC) resources
Sun West School Division (SWSD) wikis
Media Smarts

School- Based Purchases

Raz-Kids
Reading Eggs
Math Seeds

Recommendations

Transition to digital resources when available.

Considerations/Trials

See Saw (free trial – primary)
Fresh Grade (free trials and trials of licensed version)
Study Forge (trial – Grades 7-12 Math PLTs)
Tynker Coding (Sun West Initiative for School Improvement (SWISI) – Davidson project)

Resources and Links

An initiative of Sun West School Division