Wakelet
Wakelet is a free online curation tool that allows users to collect a variety of media types including videos, links, social media posts, and collaborative documents.
First Steps
Getting Started:
Wakelet Teacher Introduction & Guide / Classroom & Remote Learning Video
Get the tool at Wakelet.com
The Educator’s Guide to Wakelet A downloadable eBook that covers all you need to know about getting started including easy to follow diagrams and instructions. Available in English, Spanish and other languages.
User Communities and sites:
Instagram: @wakelet, #wakelet, #wakeletwave
Twitter: @wakelet, #wakelet, #wakeletwave
Technical Specifications:
This is a web based platform that can be used on any device. Wakelet works with most apps and classroom tools including Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneNote, Google Classroom, Google Drive, Remind, and Flipgrid.
Next Steps
Curating for the Classroom with Wakelet - Collection of resources on how to use curation to transform your classroom using Wakelet.
Instructional Design
Educators can use this curation tool to facilitate digital learning in a variety of ways:
to engage their students in online discussions making their thinking visible,
to provide students with differentiated, high quality, media rich, carefully selected, skill-appropriate resources to make learning purposeful and focused,
to publish, evaluate, and provide quality feedback on student work,
teach valuable 21st century skills in critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity,
better communicate with parents by sharing classroom portfolios or class expectations or resources, and
empower students by giving them both voice and choice over what and how they are learning.
General Guides to Classroom Use:
Wakelet: A Curation Tool for Every Classroom and Professional
Curating Content for Classrooms, Families and Students
Formative and Summative Assessment Options:
Curation requires many valuable skills which can be used with instructional assessment. Examples include:
closely reading and evaluating content,
analyzing to delineate relevant vs. irrelevant information,
selecting high quality information by evaluating the worth, validity, and audience, and
organizing and presenting content based on different criteria.
10 Ways to Use Collaboration in the Classroom for formative and summative assessment - Wakelet blog
Management
Student Management:
Tech Tips: Using Wakelet in the Classroom. YouTube video tutorial that includes ideas on how to engage diverse learners.
Student Engagement:
10 Ways to Engage Students: Wakelet Collaboration
How Students Use Wakelet (YouTube webinar recording)
Student Privacy and Security:
Common Sense Education Review of Wakelet
Students aged 13 or older can create a Wakelet account. Users are only required to submit a screen name, an email address and a password. Students can use a district-created email address if they have one.
Students are under 13 cannot create a Wakelet account, but can view and collaborate Wakelet collections via a QR code, a written code or a web link.
Differentiation and Adaptation
Diverse Learners:
Wakelet is a curation platform allowing teachers to customize learning for their diverse learners with skill level appropriate resources.
Wakelet allows users to share multi-modal, non-linguistic representations of materials making content easier to comprehend and access.
Tech Tips: Using Wakelet in the Classroom. YouTube video tutorial that includes ideas on how to engage diverse learners.
Adaptive and Assistive Features:
How Do I Use Read Mode / Immersive Reader? To support differentiated learning, this feature increases the readability of content by helping students better track, see words, translate, and listen to information making learning accessible to all.
Integration with Flipgrid allow students with developmental disabilities, second language, or ASL learners to demonstrate learning through audio and video.