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Galileo K‑12 Online is constantly being updated to respond to the needs of our customers. Tools recently added or revised include Instructional Dialogs and Mercury.

 

Instructional Dialogs: Online Interactive Standards-Based Instruction

Galileo K‑12 Online’s Instructional Dialogs provide an online, interactive approach to creating and delivering standards-based instruction. A Dialog is an online instructional exchange between teachers and students designed to promote student mastery of standards. Instructional Dialogs support a dialogic approach to curriculum that integrates assessment into the instructional process in real-time. For example, Instructional Dialogs make it possible to use assessment item banks both to provide practice during instruction and assessment opportunities following instruction to measure learning. Student responses are immediately recorded and scored providing real-time information to guide further instruction. Click here to view a sample Dialog featuring a science lesson about acids and bases.

 

For students, Instructional Dialogs offer:

  • feedback in real-time, which lets students know if they have mastered classroom material
  • enriched instruction with images, animation, audio and video files, and Web links directly incorporated into a Dialog

 

For teachers, Instructional Dialogs offer:

  • flexible instructional design: create your own Dialogs or use ATI’s pre‑crafted Dialogs
  • easy-to-use review tools to ensure that Dialogs offer students quality instruction
  • continuously growing Dialog banks to share within the educational community

 

Mercury: Wireless, Interactive Assessment and Instruction

Mercury is an application used with Galileo K-12 Online technology that lets students instantly send assessment and Instructional Dialogs responses from response pads to the online system. The response system requires a wireless response pad for each student, a receiver, and a classroom computer, all purchased from a hardware vendor. Students give an answer by pressing a button on the remote. The answer is immediately sent to Galileo K-12 Online, so the teacher can see in seconds who answered and what the answer was. Questions can either be projected for all students to view or provided on paper.