Wand.education Brings Learning
Content 3.0 to Every Teacher in the UAE
W
hile most teachers create
their own learning materials,
the field of content creation
has barely evolved in the past
decade, with most tools being just a more
user-friendly version of the traditional
PowerPoint.
A recent study showed that nearly 99%
of the teachers in K12 education are
creating their own teaching resources.
This led to two trends:
• PowerPoint becoming the de-facto
tool in education to create and deliver
content on the whiteboard;
• Content repositories, where teachers
upload their resources.
The current state of learning content
reminds us of the first stage of the World
Wide Web, the so-called Web 1.0:
• Content is static;
• Presentation-oriented;
• Presentation: Galleries, Timelines,
Mindmaps, Facts sheet, Bulleted List
• Whiteboard interaction: Plenary, Pool,
Quiz, Exit Ticket, List three things,
Wordle
• Assessment: Single Choice, Multiple
Choice, Matching, Ranking, Fill-in the
blanks, Hot-spot
• Learning Games: Puzzle, Crossword,
Classification Factory, Match It, Drag It
• Memory
Games:
Flashcards,
Mnemonics, Memory Palace
Multimedia meta-search
Teachers spend on average 25 minutes
to create an activity, and 13 minutes
searching for the materials. To reduce this
time to seconds, Wand provides teachers
with an integrated research that includes
a multimedia library, more than 4 million
pictures and videos, YouTube and Vimeo
search, Google Images, and Ted Talks.
• Minimal user interaction; The best multimedia resources are now
just one-click away.
• One flow of information, from teachers
to students. Pedagogical Compiler
At Wand.education, we think there is a
better way to enable teachers to create
learning content that fits their needs.
Pre-built templates
Teachers are highly repetitive in their
design, constantly making use of several
activities. In fact, our research showed
that 80% of the content that teachers
create is a variation of the same 50
learning activities.
Wand provides teachers with a growing
number of pre-built templates:
While even the most basic software is
able to detect errors, there is no content
creation tool that provides teachers
with suggestion on how to correct
instructional design mistakes.
Analyzing the most common mistakes,
Wand is able to help teachers radically
improve their lessons.
Start from where you are
As teachers have hundreds of already
developed resources, Wand provides
them with a 1-click automatic import of
their existing slides.
Then, teachers can enhance their
materials in Wand by adding interactive
content, delivering on any device and
getting data on student progress.
Monitor progress
Wand.education enables teachers to
monitor their students’ progress using
smart reports that generates actionable
data. This allows them to continually
improve both content and the teaching
process.
Marketplace
Teachers are massively reusing materials
created by others. However, current
marketplaces have one major flaw:
metadata. This means teachers have
to manually filter the content among
thousands of search results.
Wand.education analyzes key information
on teachers (teaching subjects, devices
used, student grades, abilities) and
uses more than 40 parameters based on
reliable metadata tagging. This is how
Wand provides teachers with the best 10
search results that really matter.
Wand.education enables teachers to
make a natural shift to learning content
3.0. All takes place in a platform that
understands the content they are
creating, while opening the door for
new instructional approaches, actively
engaging students, giving them a voice
and enabling social interaction.
Wand.education is now available for a
free trial period for teachers in the United
Arab Emirates. To register, simply sign up
at https://www.wand.education/ and join
the Wand community of teachers.