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Wilkes University
ED 585 Integrating Technology to Curriculum
June 16, 2015
Justin Clark

What is Waggle?
Waggle is a software program that is designed to help learners achieve success not only on
standardized assessment, but beyond.
Analyzes not only learner performance, but also behavior, which in return providers a tailored
learning path designed specifically for him or her.
Partnered with top educational and technology companies, such as: Clever, Access Innovations,
NWEA, Smashing Ideas, and Knewton.
Waggle is a winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Challenge Grant
Questions have 11 different item types, all aligned with CCSS Assessments
Click HERE to watch a video of Waggle in action!
To Demo Waggle, Click on the Links Below:
Student Demo
Teacher Demo

My Vision for Waggle Inside

the Classroom
In my classroom, learners are encouraged to be themselves.
No two people are the same. No two people learn at the same
level and pace. Waggle understands this.
Waggle allows learners to learn at their own pace, gain
valuable feedback, and rewards them for their effort and
proficiency on assignments.
Technology is our future. Our learners are our future.
Incorporating technology to prepare our learners for not only
standardized tests, but for the future, is my primary focus.
Waggle helps students get excited to use computers as well as
educating them at their own pace at the same time!

Grade Levels, Content, and

How Learners Stay Engaged
Its not about WHAT the students get wrong. Its about HOW and WHY did they get it wrong.
Grades 3-8 for both Math and E.L.A.
Every practice item (Math or E.L.A.), Waggle provides up to 5 hints to help any struggling learner
achieve success.
Provides instant feedback so that learners know and understand exactly what they are doing
right/wrong.
Recommends activities that are at the right level of challenge for each learner. By partnering with
Knewton, Waggle takes into account everything that a student does in order to make a
recommendation.
Learners are unable to move on to the next problem until they first accurately answer the problem they
are on. This is to put greater emphasis on working through a problem multiple times without giving up.
Lift Meter
Shows learners the standards, skills, and goals that they have reached.
Learners are only moving forward or up, never backwards

Equipment Needed

Essential Tools Needed for Waggle:

Internet access Preferably wireless
Computers/Laptops or iPads
Eager learners, ready to achieve a lot and experience their own personal learning
path
Excited teachers, ready to change their classroom for the better to ensure that each
of their learners is receiving the best education possible.

Professional
Development
Opportunities
Triumph Learning has technical support via email and phone. To contact a
representative, please visit this link: http://
www.triumphlearning.com/find_representative
Triumph Learning also provides webinars, key conferences, and even customer
resources on their main page at http://www.triumphlearning.com/resources
Administrators are given email access through the Waggle interface.
Webinars 20-25 minutes, as may people as needed

Packages & Pricing

Three Types:
Smart Practice Waggle software - $9.99 per learner
Assessment For benchmark and summative assessment
purposes - $12.99 per learner with Smart Practice
Instructional Materials Print books:
PSSA Performance Coach Specific practice items for PSSA item types
PA Core Coach PA Core Standards
Target Support Coach Intervention

For all three types, it is $36.99 per learner

Ideas for in the Classroom

For Teachers
Provides data on learners strengths and weaknesses
Provides data in three areas: Skills to Watch, Students to Watch, and Students Recognition
Predicts student efficiency that can help drive classroom instruction
Can assign lessons and goals to individual learners, groups, or entire classroom
Can assign lesson at ANY grade level to ANY learner in your classroom for differentiated purposes

Ideas for Implementation:

Used as a guided math or guided reading center with laptops/iPads
Learners can complete assignments at home
Once learners achieve certain goals, they can receive a reward as classroom teacher sees
fit.
Waggles lessons are aligned with the Common Core State Standards to ensure that all
content areas are met

Personal Reflection

To reflect on this assignment, I truly enjoyed learning about Waggle. Mass Customized
Learning is a popular topic in education today and Waggle is just that. I love the idea
of being able to truly differentiated for each of the learners in my classroom and
providing for them the very best education possible.
What Did I Learn?
One of the main things I learned is that if you want to really differentiate for each of your
learners, there is software out there that can help you do just that! What we are doing
currently in our classrooms today is NOT differentiated instruction. We are accustom to
differentiating for a group of learners, but not for each INDIVIDUAL learner. Thankfully, there
are software packages, like Waggle, that allow learners to learn in a true personalized learning
environment.

Work Cited

Magento Commerce. (2015). Retrieved June 12, 2015, from

http://www.triumphlearning.com/
Waggle (Products on EdSurge). (2015). Retrieved June 12, 2015, from
https://www.edsurge.com/waggle
Waggle Personalized Smart Practice. (2015). Retrieved June 12, 2015, from
http://go.triumphlearning.com/acton/media/12753/waggle