EasyTech helps students develop the technology skills needed for college and the workforce while they study core subjects. A complete digital literacy curriculum, EasyTech features self-paced lessons and games to practice skills, activities to reinforce concepts, and quizzes to check for understanding. Learn more: http://www.learning.com/easytech/

1. EasyTech
Digital Literacy Solution Overview

2. About Learning.com: What We Do
• We provide award-winning digital
literacy and 21st century skills solutions
for both students and educators
• We help districts and schools address
these crucial skills with digital content
and custom professional development

3. About Learning.com: Our Reach
More than
20 awards
since 2002
47 states
11 countries
2,700 districts
Founded in 1999
Headquartered in
Portland, Oregon

4. What is EasyTech?
• A digital literacy curriculum for grades
K-8 that makes it simple to integrate
technology into core subject instruction
• Helps districts prepare students for the
computer-related tasks of Next-
Generation Assessments
• Helps students develop the crucial
digital literacy skills needed for college
and their future career opportunities
• Curriculum that exceeds requirements
for E-Rate compliance with its included
Online Safety curriculum

5. EasyTech Instructional Approach
• Self-paced, engaging, interactive
lessons, games, and quizzes to teach
digital literacy skills
• Journal assignments for students to
apply and practice these skills
• Interactive tasks in all lessons that
check for student understanding and
provide assistive prompts
• Automatic scoring of lessons, games
and quizzes in the teacher grade book
saves valuable time for educators

6. EasyTech – Developed With Research
• Learning.com developed EasyTech in consultation with Dr.
Gregory Waddoups, Ph.D., Brigham Young University, utilizing
research from several established research studies including:
• Timely, rich, and immediate feedback improves student learning and
motivation (Wong, 2001)
• Open-ended software design allows for tighter integration with
curriculum and multiple opportunities for students to engage in
material, which increases student achievement
(Brush, Armstrong, Barbrow, & Ulintz, 1999; Matthew, 1995; Mitchell & Fox, 2001).
• Technology integration is most likely to impact student achievement
in the context of inquiry-based instruction (Hickey, Moore, &
Pellegrino, 2001; Follensbee, 1997; Wenglinsky, 1998; Brush, 1997; Butzin, 2001).
• Technology integration can have important collateral benefits
beyond it„s function of teaching a subject matter (Ross, Hogaboam-Gray, &
Honnay, 2001).

7. EasyTech is Engaging for Students
• Engage your students with colorful, grade-level aligned interactive
lessons, fun games, and opportunities to earn student achievement
certificates
• EasyTech Online Safety curriculum uses a positive, not fear-based
approach to addressing online safety and digital citizenship
instruction
• Spanish versions of the most popular EasyTech curriculum is
provided to support ELL students
• Closed captioning is available in EasyTech lessons to support
students with learning differences

8. EasyTech – Customized for Educators
• EasyTech is simple to use and to assign content to students – several
customized instructional sequences are available:
 By Digital Literacy Skill: curriculum is grouped by skill topic
 By Grade: targeting digital literacy skills students need to know
 EasyTech for Next Generation Assessments: customized instruction to ready
students for computer-based assessments like PARCC and Smarter Balanced
 EasyTech Keyboarding: differentiate keyboarding instruction for every student
 EasyTech Online Safety: meet E-Rate needs with district instruction reporting

9. EasyTech by Digital Literacy Skill
Beginning with Mouse Basics, EasyTech
provides comprehensive instructional units
including the following crucial digital
literacy skills:
 Computer Fundamentals
 Keyboarding
 Visual Mapping
 Email and Proper Online Communication
 Web Browsing
 Word
Processing, Presentations, Spreadsheets
 Databases
 Multimedia and Graphics
 HTML Web Page Design

10. EasyTech by Grade
• Takes the guesswork out of what instruction to assign
• Customized sequences of instruction for every grade addresses the
digital literacy skills students need to know based on their grade
• Pacing calendars for each grade help teachers easily plan their
instruction and offers enrichment and differentiation strategies
• Developed in consultation with educators with the busy classroom
teacher in mind

11. EasyTech for Next-Generation
Assessments
• Pinpoints the exact skills needed for students to be ready to take
assessments like PARCC and Smarter Balanced
• Pre-tests to check for existing digital literacy skills and assigns
targeted lessons based on individual student results
• Customized sequences of instruction targeted for
primary, intermediate, and middle grade learning objectives
• Pacing guides and teacher resources to help districts and schools
prepare students for these assessments with confidence

12. EasyTech Keyboarding
• Curriculum targeted for
primary, intermediate, and middle grades
• Interactive, self-paced lessons and
practices
• Extensive library of skill-building exercises
and longer story-form challenges
• Reports on progress, and areas
to practice
• Prescriptive Keyboarding lessons
automatically recommends practices
based on student speed and accuracy

13. EasyTech Online Safety
• Exceeds E-Rate requirements
for Grades K-12
• Provide teachers with effective curriculum
on challenging online safety
topics, including detailed lesson plans and
guides
• Understand how well students grasp
content through performance reports
and student tracking
• Approach critical topics with
positive, research-based
lessons, discussions, activities and
journaling
• Meet E-Rate compliance needs with
the automated E-Rate report

14. EasyTech is Tablet-Compatible with
the free L.com app
• The Learning.com app provides
students with access to EasyTech
on iPad®, Android® and Kindle Fire®
tablet devices
• The Learning.com App is available as
a FREE download from the
iTunes, Google Play, and Kindle App
stores
• Supports district One to One or Bring
Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives
utilizing tablet devices

15. Power-up EasyTech with
Assessments
• 21st Century Skills Assessment and
Tech Literacy Assessment now
prescribes EasyTech lessons and
activities to help teachers quickly
individualize learning and accelerate
student progress
• Use 21st Century Skills Assessment or
Tech Literacy Assessment to identify
needs and prescribe targeted lessons
from EasyTech
• Pinpoint knowledge gaps, save time
meeting them and give students exactly
what they need to learn

16. EasyTech Implementation Resources
• Learning.com is dedicated to our educators success by offering the
following Implementation and Support resources:
 Each customer has an assigned Learning.com Account Manger
dedicated to successful implementation
 Phone, chat, and email Technical Support is included
 Getting started “How do I?” videos
 Scope and sequence pacing guides
 Curriculum guides for Online Safety and Keyboarding
 Parent outreach resources
 Frequently asked questions (FAQs) guides
 Student certificate of completion templates

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18. Lesson: Mobile Devices

19. Lesson: Online Safety

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