Deedly

What do you like best?

Deedly has self guided learning modules for students to work through at their own pace. These modules include videos, assessments, and dig deeper assignments that teachers can use to supplement the modules. Topics include communication, education, and the environment, and each module is connected with learning about a non-for-profit or other charitable organization that is working in that sector to improve the world. As students work through the modules, they earn "Deed Coins" which they can then use to donate money to one of the organizations they felt connected to. The Deed Coins are matched by donors and are actually converted into real funds, so the students are doing good in the world without having to leave their classroom or home.

What do you dislike?

Once students sign into the phone app, it seems like they loose the opportunity to access information about the organizations, but this also might be user error.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Deedly connects standards based/subject based learning to the real world. It allows my students to learn more about people living around the world and discover how they can put knowledge they are learning to use to help others. During COVID-19 distance learning, my school has used Deedly as a way for the students to do service in a safe way.