AVID Open Access

For our students to be informed and productive participants in the American democracy, they need to be able to effectively evaluate the credibility of online resources.

Explore the ABCs of evaluating online resources as a way to turn your students into credibility detectives who can effectively evaluate the trustworthiness of online resources.

To be effective consumers of digital information, students need to be able to acknowledge and identify bias in all forms of media.

To create well-informed citizens, we need to recognize filter bubbles and the impact they have on our information universe.

To sift through the vast quantities of misleading information presented to us each day, we need to develop the skills that will inform us how to avoid being misled.

Design lessons that empower students by giving them voice and choice in the learning process as well as an opportunity to create.

Explore strategies and digital tools your students can use to effectively study at home.

Explore strategies your students can use to power up their posts and ramp up their responses during online discussions.

Discover how to create a more accessible virtual learning environment by making your content ADA compliant and designing with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) process.

Explore strategies and tools like text to speech, translation services, and closed captioning that can make content more accessible to your students.

Understand the core elements and most common models of blended learning.

Learn how to implement the blended learning model of whole group rotation in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

Learn how to implement the blended-learning model of station rotation in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

Flip the learning in your classroom to create more interactive and cognitively rich experiences during your face-to-face lesson.

Learn how to implement the playlist model of blended learning in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

Use the best of face-to-face classroom instruction as well as online, virtual learning by implementing the hybrid model of blended learning.

Increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning by using videoconferencing software in three ways.

Increase retention by applying critical reading and viewing strategies to digital text, images, and video.

Explore strategies and tools that will help students critically read and mark up digital documents, PDFs, and websites.

Teach students to view videos and digital images with the same level of critical review that they use when reading texts.

Learn strategies and digital tools that students can use to effectively and efficiently organize their class materials and share their achievements.

Learn strategies and digital tools that students can use to develop their time management skills.

Teach your students how to set up effective study spaces and routines to leverage the advantages of technology.