Simplify Page for Engagement

Encourage students to take ownership of their own learning by adjusting the visual display of information for increased focus and comprehension of material.

Implementation Strategy: Access articles, labs, and textbooks through the web. Model and encourage students to change the size of text, font, spacing, and background color to their individual learning preferences. Demonstrate how to use the simplify tool to summarize or shorten the amount of reading material being displayed on webpages. When researching a new topic, encourage students to self determine the amount of reading material displayed at a time to support the absorption of content for each student.

Implementation Strategy: Recruit student's interests during a research project using the discovery tool built in to the Simplify Page. Encourage students to easily access the definition and background information of terms that are unfamiliar or find interesting to them. Hold a class discussion on the topic and allow students to share one thing they learned or found interesting when researching the topic.