About California Learns!

An Instructional Resource Portal Provided by the Sacramento County Office of Education

There is a growing realization among educators that the world is changing faster than educational organizations can react. In most classrooms today, cell phones, iPads and other electronic devices are considered distractions. Their use is discouraged and sometimes forbidden. Yet after 3 PM every day, that's how many students choose to communicate and learn.

Technology may be the best way to reach and teach our students. Students don't have to carry heavy textbooks from class to class anymore. There are efforts toward using digital textbooks embedded with multimedia and video that better illustrate ideas and concepts than printed words on a page. Districts are experimenting with 1 to 1 initiatives with iPads, netbooks, and laptops. Students can access tutorials and instructional resources online anytime from school or home. They no longer rely on their teacher as the only source of information in their classroom.

Students don't communicate the way their parents or teachers do. They use social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and they use small portable devices like smart phones for text messaging and iPads for accessing the Internet for online content. Content is going digital and it's all available on computers, laptops, phones, iPads, netbooks and a variety of other portable devices connected to the Internet. At California Learns, we recognize these changes.

That's what California Learns is all about. It brings to students and families relevant educational content and resources that help student learn in a digital world. It's available any time from anywhere via an Internet connected device. It also brings training and staff development to teachers on how to use this content effectively in their classrooms.

California Learns supports students, teachers, and parents with the tools and resources to help their students achieve. It focuses on the following core activities:

• Provide supplemental curriculum and resources in a digital format to teachers and students
• Provide staff development and training to teachers
• Make the cost of digital resources affordable for all schools.

California Learns Buying & Licensing Consortium

California Learns is a new buying and licensing consortium for California School Districts. Your district will save thousands of dollars on on online course curriculum from OdysseyWare and student data systems from LinkIt!.