eSchool News: New technology aims to help personalized instruction

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eSchool News featured myON in an article about new ed-tech products designed to help schools and educators create a personalized learning environment for their students. See what they had to say about myON below and be sure to check our the full list of products here!

As more school leaders recognize technology’s potential to help personalize instruction, ed-tech providers are developing products that can quickly zero in on a student’s unique learning needs and deliver lessons to address these needs. Here are several new products with this goal in mind.

myON literacy tools

myON has expanded its digital literacy platform by adding a set of literacy tools to further personalize the reading experience for students. These tools supplement myON’s existing collection of more than 7,000 digital books, which also include multimedia scaffolds and embedded assessments.

Students can use these embedded literacy tools in all myON digital books to practice close reading skills such as highlighting and note taking. For instance, teachers can ask students to highlight and cite evidence to support the author’s conclusion in informational texts.

myON gives students unlimited, simultaneous access to its library of enhanced digital texts. A Netflix-like personalization engine recommends specific texts to each student based on their personal preferences and the rankings of books they’ve read. myON also empowers students and teachers with real-time, actionable data—such as the number and type of books opened and read, time spent reading, results of regular benchmark assessments, and more—based on embedded Lexile assessments that measure student reading growth.