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Learn how to get started

7 Tips for Getting Started with Scoutlier Scoutlier is fully integrated for  Google Classroom , but hang in there if you're not a Classroom teacher. At the end of September, we will  open platform access to all Google sign in  with assignment codes for easier sharing with any classroom. Download printable pdf  Create your Google Classroom account and create a class. You can skip this step if you already use Google Classroom!  Go to Scoutlier and click the button to sign in   Create a new assignment, or make a copy of a library assignment! Find the Design Bank of templates or the crowd-sourced Sharing Library for some easy ways to get your class started! Launch your assignment! Edit an assignment to challenge your students and click "Assign Now" button Have your students join the assignment. Students sign in to scoutlier.com or access your assignment through Google Classroom  Teach using Scoutlier! Get a live view of student progress and understanding on
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It’s 2019. So why do 21st-century skills still matter?

We hear more and more about how important 21st-century skills are for all learners as they prepare for future careers.  At Scoutlier , we're especially interested in helping provide tools and support teachers in gathering  evidence of learning and improving student outcomes as they practice the 21st-century learning skills, or 4C's in a repetitive and consistent way.  From  Empowering Students with 21st Century Skills - Getting Smart :  ". . . At a time when our civic life feels strained, we want our learners to enter the world with an understanding of what it takes to be a good citizen—one who can be civically engaged, critically thinking, digitally literate, globally aware, and an effective communicator." 
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If you're getting pushback from your active learning strategies, read this!

I know we all feel some frustration from students experiencing a new approach to learning, especially at this time of year.  This is impetus to stick with your active learning approach! Check out this great Science News article from Harvard University :  More learning in 'active learning' classrooms, but students don't know it "Deep learning is hard work. The effort involved in active learning can be misinterpreted as a sign of poor learning," said  Louis Deslauriers, Director of Science Teaching and Learning . "On the other hand, a superstar lecturer can explain things in such a way as to make students feel like they are learning more than they actually are."
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