Experience—Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform—connects educators to a vast collection of compelling high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, and professional learning resources. Together, these resources give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction in any learning environment and create lasting educational impact.
Discovery Education’s team continues adding, contextualizing, and organizing exciting new content and timely resources to Experience each month in response to current events and the ever-evolving needs of educators. These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day.
Finally, Experience is designed to work within school systems’ existing infrastructure and workflows. Through expanded partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, and now Clever, integrating Experience into existing IT architecture is easier than ever.
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Experience works on any device and is designed to work within school systems’ existing infrastructure and workflows. Through expanded partnerships with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, and now Clever, integrating Experience into existing IT architecture is easier than ever.
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Built for all learners, grade levels, subject areas, and interests, Experience brings new excitement and relevance to the topics educators teach and lets them reach and engage every student wherever learning is taking place.
Discovery Education Experience provides compelling high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, unique collaboration tools, and professional learning resources that give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment. Built for all learners, grade levels, subject areas, and interests, this flexible K-12 learning platform brings new excitement and relevance to the topics they teach and lets them reach and engage every student wherever learning is taking place.
Grade/age range:
Discovery Education Experience is built for all learners, K-12.
Core or supplemental?
Because of its tremendous flexibility, Discovery Education Experience can be used as a core or supplemental resources, and as well as in the special needs and extracurricular environments. Experience provides all the resources educators need to put this amazing content into practice, including grab-and-go lessons, student activity boards for in-class or at-home learning, service overviews, and collections of research-based strategies, like SOS instructional strategies and the Instructional Inspiration channel. In addition, Experience offers step-by-step guides and interactive courses, as well as a comprehensive assortment of live webinars and events, help maximize Discovery Education resources and create unique learning opportunities for students of all levels and capabilities.
Standards:
Discovery Education Experience’s 190,000 exciting resources are aligned to state and national standards, and its activities and vetted, high-quality content are carefully curated and segmented by grade level, saving educators valuable time with a wealth of invaluable resources. In addition, Discovery Education has recently improved educators’ ability to personalize their content feed through a new recommendation engine that suggests specific resources tailored to their needs and interests.
Lesson time needed:
Variable to the educators needs.
Pricing models:
Educators interested in pricing models for their school or school district should visit https://www.discoveryeducation.com/help/contact-us/request-a-demo/
What makes Discovery Education Experience unique?
Discovery Education Experience provides compelling high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, unique collaboration tools, and professional learning resources that give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment. Built for all learners, grade levels, subject areas, and interests, this flexible K-12 learning platform brings new excitement and relevance to the topics they teach and lets them reach and engage every student wherever learning is taking place. It’s unique because:
- It contains curated, high-quality content aligned to state standards
·It includes grab-and-go lessons and research-based strategies to save teachers time and give them new inspiration
·It offers equitable resources to reach all types of learners
·It supports the continuity of learning in any circumstance
- It provides professional learning to meet educators where they are
Characteristics:
Discovery Education Experience is designed to fit into and help with the instructional needs of students and teachers regardless of whether they’re in-class or fully remote. Provisioning and onboarding are built with districts in mind so teachers and students can focus on learning rather than technical hurdles. Once inside they have the ability to discover, curate, and share high-quality, engaging, and educational content in a safe and easy-to-use environment. Our educators can personalize their experience through our newly launched homepage and learning engine making it easier to find and assign standards aligned content. And, of course, DEX the tools to add assessments that check for understanding. With our newly revised Discovery Studio both educators and students can leverage our content in entirely new ways by leveraging, creating, and sharing custom slideshows.
Here's what users are saying:
“The content can reduce the time that you spend and the stress level that you have as you are trying to adapt to this new online environment. Everything that you could use with your students, they already have on there.”
--Brett Mitchley, Grade 8 Social Studies Teacher
“Discovery Education has helped us transition to distance learning. Even our principal says that she is very happy we are ahead of the game. One of the things I love about it is that it helps me save time.”
--Martha Basulto, Grade 2 Gifted Teacher
“Teachers like you and I have been tasked to pivot… immediately. We were in schools, then we were set home, given a computer and told, ‘Go teach.’ During this transition, Discovery Education has definitely been a lifesaver. It was built for digital learning and delivery.”
--Quinae Jackson, Instructional Coach
