Thrively is a student centered personalized learning platform that develops the whole child. It brings together four key components essential in personalized learning; self awareness, finding purpose, building grit, and creating impact. It starts by providing students with a strength assessment in 23 areas; leadership, resilience, creative thinking and many more. This affords students a starting point that they can build on and aids teachers in identifying students’ strengths.
Based on these strengths, Thrively supports students by providing information about various careers using educational and informative videos. It also offers teachers various activities that they can present to their students to complete now in their community. Teachers can further support their students by teaching them growth mindset. Students can build enduring values through various activities that teachers can choose. These social impact activities help them build their creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity skills. Additionally, teachers can create real world hands on learning experiences to bring forth further interests. Specifically, I would use the tool as a Genius hour for students. Genius hour supports students in researching their authentic interests. It helps them push past what is popular right now and find meaningful interests. The resource takes into account location and provides students with opportunities within their neighborhood, apps, activity boards, places to see, educational and informational videos, and much more all of which relates to each students personal interests. Being able to access students’ interests allows teachers to group students by interest for projects that could impact student lives and possibly their community.
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