Giving Compass' Take:

• D2L Brightspace's education technology app helps teachers showcase their content in more meaningful ways to their students, driving engagement with the material. 

• How can donors support education technology in the classroom? What are the benefits? 

• Learn more about supporting teachers in the digital age. 

Technological variety has entered classrooms in ever-expanding ways, and D2L’s Brightspace app for K-12 schools looks to gather all the tech tools teachers love to use and put them in one digital content’s hub while making it accessible to teachers, students, and parents across multiple devices at any point in the day.

In a common scenario, teachers use the Brightspace Learning Management System as a presentation tool, showing videos or assignments from the app. Then, when students go home and need to answer questions from the video, they can refer back to the app to watch it again. The more class material placed inside the system, the more students and parents can see the curriculum in its proper context at any time of day.

Brightspace doesn’t create content, instead of providing a flexible framework for districts to use for pulling in resources it has already created. D2L’s relationships with large content providers also make it easy to grab curriculum directly from within the app. Brightspace encourages teachers to personalize the experience by offering such tools as a game-based editor and access to their own Google Drive creations.

Read the full article about education technology by Tim Newcomb at The 74.