The Literatu View

no class left behind

It sure is a busy, connected world, especially for teachers. With thousands of education apps all aligned to particular devices, connections and configurations, teachers would be right in thinking that technology is all about someone else, not them or their students at all. 

Recent surveys highlight 33% of teachers spend an hour or more a week looking for apps and opportunities to extend the use of technology to drive engagement and interaction. This time could be better spent if teachers could create and transform their  trusted materials as interactive engagements for their students. We believe it is what teachers know, do and care about, that makes the most powerful difference to students.

Literatu understands this. Literatu significantly changes the way student engagements and interactions are created, shared and leveraged. The difference is that Literatu makes teachers the creators of engagements. Fully supporting BYOD, Literatu reduces device conflict by providing equity of access and capabilities to all teachers and students.

We believe that teachers should have complete control over content creation, interaction and delivery in their classroom context. Teachers should never having to worry about the 'device' students use and more importantly, the quality of what is appearing on the screen. Literatu has a very simple formula for success.  Teacher extensibility value = BYOC(Content) * BYOD(Device). The greater the reach and quality, the greater the impact.

It would also be nice if every student in every class had a one-to-one device like an iPad, or a Samsung Note (and one at home as well),  but they just don't.  Teachers face a very unlevel playing field in the real world of have and have-not resources. Even when teachers do have access, reality today often finds teachers juggling applications and servicing technology, when it really should be the other way around.  When students leave the control environment of the class, access should not be cut off; access should be extended to whatever connection students have at home. Literatu has focused on this and is certified in online stores across all major platforms : Windows, Mac, Android, iPad.  

These are but some of the reasons and capabilities of Literatu. Literatu is a platform that is all about teachers, their pedagogy and their classes. Teachers engage students in a context where quality engagements and results monitoring, drive more timely interventions, remediation and outcomes. Literatu fully integrates with Google and Edmodo which means teachers simply keep going with what they know now.

When we say 'no class left behind' we mean it. Every teacher can use Literatu to build interactive engagements for their context, for their class, for their level, language and subject. Literatu un-shackles the dependency created by other everyone else's apps, content and devices. 

Don't get caught in content congestion! 

All it takes now is for teachers to do what they tell their students every day; 'have a go'.

 

Posted on Oct 31, 2013 by the literatu desk to News