Wednesday, May 30, 2018

New Content on 9-12 Financial Literacy Added to the Student Personalized Learning System

As many of you are aware, the 2018 legislature passed a bill requiring a one-half unit course in personal finance for those graduating high school. In an attempt to help districts teach this content, AEA Learning Online has added content in the Student Personalized Learning System for teachers to use with students. These modules follow the Iowa Core Financial Literacy Standards for 9-12 students.

The currently created modules:
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Introduction
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 1 (Spending Plans and Goals)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 2( Needs VS Wants and Goals)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 3 ( Income and Banking )
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Money Management 4 ( Checking and Bring it all together )
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 1 (Credit Cards)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 2 (Loans)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Being Credit Worthy and Financially Secure 3 (Credit Scores, Reports & ID Theft)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 1( Strategies for protection of identity.)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 2 (insurance and premiums)
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Risk Management 3 (non-insurance protection)
  • Financial Literacy K-2
  • Financial Literacy 3-5

Coming soon modules on:
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Achieving Long Term Financial Security
  • Financial Literacy 9-12: Human, Cultural and Social Issues

You can find any of this content in our Student Personalized Learning Center by logging in, clicking on Catalog then Financial Literacy. Click on the icon to the far right of the title to explore the modules. 


If you wish to use these with students or have any questions please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org) Craig Mohr (cmohr@aealearningonline.org) or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org)



If you have any other suggestions please let us know. Remember you can also create your own modules in our system. If you are interested in this, please contact us: Denise Krefting, Craig Mohr or Melissa Wicklund. If you or others that you are aware of who might be interested in getting this information on the Student Personalized Learning System  please sign up for this newsletter at http://eepurl.com/ccWi45 

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

7th Grade Illustrative Mathematics from Open Up Resources on Student Personalized Learning System

We are excited to share with you that the content from Open Up Resources 7th Grade Illustrative Mathematics has been added to AEA Learning Online's Student Personalized Learning System (http://learning.aeak12online.org/ ).  The content comes from Open Up Resources (https://im.openupresources.org/index.html) and is available for teachers to use with their students.  

In a problem-based curriculum, students work on carefully crafted and sequenced mathematics problems during most of the instructional time. A typical lesson in Illustrative Mathematics has four phases:


  1. A warm-up
  2. One or more instructional activities
  3. The lesson synthesis
  4. A cool-down
Four instructional routines frequently used in warm-ups are Number Talks, Notice and Wonder, Which One Doesn’t Belong, and True or False. Selected activities are structured using Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions (Smith & Stein, 2011), also described in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM, 2014), and Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions (Kazemi & Hintz, 2014). 
6th grade has already been added to the system and 8th grade will be coming soon. 

Teachers can view the content by:
1) Going to the Student Personalized Learning System (http://learning.aeak12online.org/)
2) Log in with your username and password that you use in the teacher training system (https://training.aealearningonline.org )
3) Click on Catalog
4) Click on Math and the Statewide Tab
5) Scroll down to Statewide Module to see the individual modules. Click on the far right icon from the module name to preview. There is also a  Statewide Learning Opportunity that contains all of the modules that can be assigned to students at the bottom of the page.

If you wish to use these modules with students please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org)   or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org).

Monday, May 14, 2018

Waukee APEX Students Create Content for Peers in the Student Personalized Learning System



Today we have 2 groups of student bloggers from Waukee High School's Aspiring Professional Experiences Program (APEX). The first group contains Regan Doud, Nick Glidden and Morgan Vaudt. We are from the Exploration of Health Science and Medicine course and have created a personalized learning module of the Digestive System. Through this module you will learn:
  • What is the purpose of the digestive system
  • What makes up the digestive system
  • How food goes through the digestive system
  • What the roles are of each organ
This Module is mainly for High School Students as it goes further in depth with the Digestive System.

The second group consists of Katelyn Felt, Ava Almajidi and Kaelyn Brooks (no picture available). We are also from the Exploration of Health Science and Medicine course at Waukee APEX and have created a personalized learning module titled "The Development of a Child's Brain ". Through this module you will learn
  • To recognize different parts of the human brain and their functions
  • Why infants learn faster than adults
  • What and infant's brain looks like at birth and the states it goes through in the first five years
  • The causes and effects of abnormalities in a child's brain
  • The effect that toxic stress and neglect has on the brain
This Module is mainly for High School Students as it goes further in depth with the development of a child's brain. We hope you find these modules helpful and can learn something from this.

AEA Learning Online is a learning system set to help students by offering an alternative and helpful learning source. The site offers a wide variety of topics and information; some that are created with the support of other students to further create depth and aid to their learning. We enjoyed building this content for you to use.
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AEA Learning Online thanks leads Kate Felt and Regan Doud, their teams and their teacher Ryan Lensing for their hard work on these modules.

To learn more about these modules, you can visit http://learning.aeak12online.org/ click on catalog then Science for Digestion and Family and Consumer Science for The Development of a Child's Brain and the tab Statewide or enter the criteria in the search.

You can also have your students create content in our system. If you are interested in having students create content, teachers creating content or using the system please contact Denise Krefting, Melissa Wicklund or Craig Mohr.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

AEA Learning Online turns 7

Happy birthday to us!

On this day in 2011, AEA Learning Online officially opened its doors as a collective program of the 9 AEAs.  Today marks the 7th anniversary of that new chapter in offering services for Iowa educators.

As we begin a new year, we can think of no better way to help celebrate that to continue to offer new offerings in online learning for teachers and students in Iowa.  Be sure to check out our summer catalog for online courses.  Or, visit our self-paced course catalog on our training system for a course you can start today.