Posted on December 18, 2015 by EdTech Times This week, we interviewed Glynn Willett, founder of MobyMax. MobyMax is a free online curriculum for all K-8 subjects including math, reading, language, writing, science, and even state test prep. MobyMax unlocks the power of personalized and blended learning to help students learn twice as fast. What does …
Two Collaborative Learning Tools I use to Motivate Students
by Derek von Waldner As many educators know, students often come into a classroom ranging below or above a certain grade level. Even the most experienced of teachers find this disparity challenging. Self-paced and differentiated learning can help strike a balance among student grade levels, but the question becomes what specific …
Math Instruction Meets a Personalized Approach
One school is using a personalized and blended math curriculum to help students meet learning goals By Laura Devaney MobyMax, a provider of personalized and blended learning curriculum for K-8 students, is helping educators at Georgia’s Screven County Elementary School personalize math instruction to meet the learning needs of every child. Like …
How One District Uses RTI to Help Students
Learn how this Oregon school fills learning gaps while building core knowledge. By Courtney Murphy and Tim Swanson On the first day back from summer break, a significant percentage of our students return to campus below grade-level in reading and math. As administrators and teachers, we know something has to …
Big Fun in Education
A successful edtech company’s CEO accounts for efficient learning and proper tools. INTERVIEW | by Victor Rivero Now one of the fastest growing curriculum systems in the U.S., MobyMax has over 1,000 new teachers registering each day. What exactly does it do? “It finds and fixes missing skills in math, math …
Cool Tool | MobyMax Cognitive Skills Science
K-8 Cognitive Skills Science curriculum by MobyMax is based on transformative Touch Curriculum technology, which uses over 20,000 interactive manipulatives to engage students on a deeper level than traditional curriculum. Rather than simply reading textbook pages, Touch Curriculum gives students an immersive experience by dragging and dropping, repositioning, building, writing, creating, and …
A TechCHAT with MobyMax’s CEO Glynn Willett
In this installment of TechChat, Education World talks to MobyMax’s CEO Glynn Willett. A co-founder with his son Wade Willett, the two are aiming to provide a complete and affordable K-8 personalized and blended learning solution. Willett discussed the company’s Touch Curriculum™ technology, which is used in Cognitive Skills Science curriculum, …
Rural schools implement personalized curriculum to close skill gaps
Personalized approach to Response to Intervention is intended to help curriculum be as effective as possible Oak Heights Elementary School in Sweet Home, Ore., is using MobyMax to identify and fill the gaps in students’ skills as part of its Response to Intervention program. “MobyMax … finds the holes in …
MobyMax Debuts Early Reading Curriculum for Tablets
By Joshua Bolkan MobyMax has released a new subject, Early Reading Trio, in its Touch Curriculum series for tablets. Early reading is designed to engage students with words in three different ways across three different modules. In the first, Early Words, students learn sound-letter correspondences and the phonetic sounds they will encounter in …
MobyMax Website Review
“MobyMax is an impressive educational website that provides an extensive K-8 curriculum for ELA, Math, Science and Test Prep students. After an initial (interactive) placement test, the adaptive curriculum creates a unique, individualized education plan so that gifted students can progress at a faster rate, while remedial students get the extra …