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Debbie Jensen: Welcome. I'm very excited to have you all here. This is CK-12 Digital Textbooks for Adult Education, and you're going to see the latest in AI. Because that is the thing that they have just recently acquired. CK-12 was great before. Now it's just mind-boggling. And so, I want you to see that.

Now, welcome to all of you that are online. Please ask questions because we have someone that her sole job is to watch the questions. And if you ask no questions at the end, she will feel worthless. And you will really destroy her ego. So definitely ask questions. And that's true with all of you, guys. We'll stop, and we'll answer your questions. So please ask. OK. Good. All right.

All right. Our objectives today, first of all, get yourself an account. OK? It is at ck12.org. Get yourself an account. It is free. Sign up as a teacher. OK? Because then you're going to have things gathered into your library as you go through. We're going to discuss what CK-12 is. What it can do for you. Adult education the new website resources. We're going to look at them as an educator and as a student. And then at the end, I'll go through my experience and my exploration.

My name is David Jensen. I taught in adult Ed for over 30 years and retired right in the middle of COVID. Not because I was afraid, but because I was using the digital. So it was working. But because our school was cutting back financially and we're all going to be cutting hours. And I found that my retirement would be the exact same amount as if I stayed and worked. And so I retired.

My grandchildren moved in with me about a month later. So it wasn't that much of a retirement. But in all of this, I have continued with OTAN and with my love for all things education for adult school. All right. So first question is, what is CK-12? Any of you heard of it before. OK? All right. So CK-12 is a foundation.

That being said, you're never going to pay. It's financed by people who have money, and we get to receive the great benefits. Everything's good. Thanks. Their mission-- have you worked with Khan Academy?

Audience: Yes.

Debbie Jensen: OK. Have you ever seen Sal?

Audience: Yes.

Debbie Jensen: --and him speak?

Audience: Yes.

Debbie Jensen: The power and the thrill and the joy he has in educating and the real serious belief that everyone worldwide deserves an education.

Audience: Yes.

Debbie Jensen: CK-12 is an amazing kind of idea. The people who started it believed that everyone, no matter what their learning style, no matter who they are, age, ability, they deserve to have a free world-class education. And that's their goal. It's worldwide, and so if you've not heard of it, other places, they have. Other countries.

They have 236 million users currently, and that number changes all the time. They've 342,000 FlexBooks customized. One of the things that is so cool is that this is not a library that you get to go and use their books. This is a place where they provide you the same platform so you can create your own.

You can modify it. You can rearrange it. You can create it from scratch. That's cool. And then they have questions answered. Their question bank is phenomenally huge. So if you're thinking. oh, I need a quiz, I don't have time. You just go to theirs. That's good. I'll take that one, and that so all can be done.

And it's quality. They have over 100 PhD's, professors, teachers, authors, NASA scientists, and many other domain experts that have been with them over the last 15 years. They started with the STEM courses. And that is still their supreme strength. So if you're an ABE or a high school teacher wanting to teach math or those STEM courses, this is going to be invaluable to you.

But all the rest of us decided we wanted to get involved. And so the community contributed, has thousands and thousands and thousands of [muffeled inaudible] about that. Also, the fact that they are very, very anxious to keep everything accessible on all platforms. You don't have to worry if there's an update, if the phones are going to work or if that platform works one plot.

You don't have to check yourself. They check for you, and they keep everything going. And it's 24/7, so it's always going to be available for your students. All right, so this slide. All right, CK-12, what's new? Because I've worked with CK-12 for some time, I have realized they are constantly innovating. They're constantly adding.

A couple of years back, they added Flexi. Flexi is this character right here that kind of looks like an animated chicklet. And he was the tutor. He was the tutor first for students to answer any of their questions, give them help in whatever problems they may have.

Then they opened him up to helping teachers. So also the teachers would get help. This year, just as we had with our keynote speaker, they wanted to use AI. And so that is the newest, is the addition of AI. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to--

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- Hello, students, educators and parents. My name is Neeru Khosla. I am the CEO of CK-12 Foundation. Today, I'm really excited to introduce you to our newest offering to help every student to get quality education.

- Thanks, Neeru. I got it from here. I'm Flex--

- This is how AI optimizes my schedule. So I have a project coming up. So I start by listing the project and then setting a deadline.

- I'm Flexi, CK-12's AI tutor. I use artificial intelligence technologies combined with proven learning methods and CK-12 materials to help you with your homework and assignments, just like a human tutor would. Hey, Mahi, what are you working on?

- I don't understand my assignment.

- I can help with that. It's as easy as that. By the way, while I'm generating an explanation, I can also show you high-quality interactive snippets from CK-12 to make topics even easier to understand.

- I still don't fully get it.

- A lot of students learn better when they hear the same concepts in different words. You play soccer, right? Why don't we use soccer as an analogy for photosynthesis?

- Oh, that makes sense.

- I'm always learning more about you, your interests, and your goals so I can personalize my help. By the way, I can give you simpler or more detailed explanations based on your comfort level. I can even translate answers into different languages. How cool is that?

- At CK-12, we have already served more than 300 million students worldwide. We've had so many great ideas to improve student outcomes and make learning relevant for everyone. But it has been hard to scale.

- Until now.

- I love the way Flexi shows me step-by-step solutions if I get stuck on a math problem.

- That's great. But are you really learning if Flexi gives you a step-by-step solution?

- Yes. Flexi gives me a full understanding of how to solve the equation, and then it gives me a similar problem to try on my own.

- You can answer my question, or if you still need help, I can break it down into substeps and walk you through it.

- It's like I have a private tutor.

- Flexi keeps a tab on all of my tasks and assignments. Based on Nicha's past performance, I can predict which assignments she will do well on and which she isn't quite ready for. It's like I have a crystal ball.

- Instead of trying assignments I'm not quite ready for, Flexi can point me to high-quality CK-12 lessons, help me review essential information, and prep me to ace my adaptive practice assignment.

- What's an adaptive practice assignment?

- I use machine learning and CK-12 materials to tailor practice assignments that are personalized to every student.

- I need Flexi just to learn everything that Flexi can do.

- I can also help prep students for tests, tailor content towards higher education and career goals, and even have in-depth conversations with students about the subjects they love the most. My goal is to maximize student engagement and discovery. Like a human tutor, I understand what the student needs by understanding their goals, their past performances, their misconceptions, and their areas of mastery. I use reinforcement learning AI tech for that.

- OK, now you're bragging.

- I can do that, too.

- Flexi, a lot of the time, my tests are on paper. Can you help me with that, too?

- I sure can. Just tell me what topics will be on your test, and I can help you prepare for it. Like a human tutor, I can break down the lessons for you, walk you step by step through the learning materials and clarify things you don't understand well. I can also check your comprehension by asking relevant questions along the way. The best way to prepare for a test is to master the topics.

- Flexi, it's really clear that you're very useful to students. Can you help teachers, too?

- You bet I can. I'm working hard to be the best assistant teacher has ever had. I'm like an extra set of eyes when students are doing their assignments. Teachers have always known how students did on their assignments, but it's hard to know why. Are students struggling because of a misconception? Are they missing some prerequisite knowledge? Is it a lack of effort or engagement? Or something else? I can show these kinds of key metrics in CK-12's insights.

- Arming teachers with this information will definitely lead to better and informed intervention.

- AI helps me predict how the students will perform on their assignments before they even attempt it. I can help teachers plan their assignments to maximize students' engagement and success.

- You've really thought of everything.

- can I say? I'm here to help.

- Thank you, everyone, for watching. We at CK-12 want Flexi to be the most useful tutor you've ever had. Flexi--

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Debbie Jensen: All right, now, let's see if I can get back out. All right, those of you that are with us at home, I'm sorry if you could not see it. So we're going to review what we learned from it. All right.

OK. All right. So when they introduced AI, they focused it in two directions. They focused it in helping the student, and the way that it helps the student is by--

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Sorry, there we go. All right. Notice here on the screen, you're seeing a couple of things that are open so that you will be able to see what they're seeing. So the student asks, what is photosynthesis at the top. Here is what AI answered. "Photosynthesis is the process by which--" OK. Now, at that point, you can continue on asking and you can get lessons from CK-12 that are whole sentences that they will give things from CK-12, as well.

But over here on the side, you can see that you can also ask for an analogy on the left side. Analogy or an example. And those are things you, the student, or you-- if your teacher ask, you can ask for those things so that they can get, I'm still not clear, I don't quite understand. You can translate it. How useful could that be for all of our adult students? Translate it. You can rephrase it. Can you use it in a different way? Can you rephrase it into a lower level of English? I'm not understanding level 12. Can you get down to a 6? And can you challenge it?

So these are all things that you can ask. You can also prepare for an assignment because so many times, our tests are on paper, and you're not preparing for a test for CK-12, but maybe a class test. But they could use it here. Now, my last time that I was working with a class on CK-12, one of the people that was the secretary that was at the front desk, they had too many people wanting to come and get their high school diplomas.

And so everyone was put on a waiting list. And so she was excited because what she'd do is she'd say, let's get you ready. You can use this, or you can use that online. But she was excited because you could do that here at CK-12. You could have him preparing for different things. And because we partnered with CK-12, or we partnered with CK-12, I want to say, three years ago. And so we have a place where we have materials that we have started.

Now, I'm hoping that I can get you so excited that you will prepare, and then we can add more. Because that then will be so valuable for all of us.

Audience: I have a question.

Debbie Jensen: Yes?

Audience: How would you go from there to some of the ones I don't understand. I need a lesson plan. I need a lesson for that. How would you-- Because you said you could show them like a lesson about photosynthesis.

Debbie Jensen: Yes. Well, they would actually--

Audience: They would just say, I'm sorry, I need more clarification--

Debbie Jensen: Yeah. And there would be a link right here that would go to that. It's not speaking to you, the teacher. Although everything is here to help you as a teacher. It's speaking to the student. OK, you don't understand this? Well, I've got this, and I've got this video, and I've got this, and I've got that. Yeah.

Audience: I have another question. Oftentimes, when they have something like that, then they'll give you the example. And say, you need more clarification, they kind of give the same example over and over and over. Are these examples different?

Debbie Jensen: Very different. They have their practice sets. And in the practice sets, they are using AI to see, OK, did you understand? No? OK, maybe I need to give you this question. Oh, you understood that? Well, then, let's get to this question, and this one. Oh, you didn't understand that? Well, let's go over here. And so they're constantly reevaluating where the student is and what they need next.

Audience: Is it based on their individual sign-ins?

Debbie Jensen: Excellent question. I'm going to turn to the next one. You can use CK-12 as a standalone. In other words, what I'm saying is, when you start investigating, you'll find all sorts of stuff. You may be looking for math, but along the way, you find this great thing on eclipses, and we're going to have one soon, and wouldn't it be good to get them knowing about eclipses?

And so what do you do with that? You're going to lose it. You put it in your library. Everything that you discovered, you put it in your library. So then that's available for you to use. Use it in any way that you want it to. Whether you want to use it as a flexbook, add it to another flexbook, or as a standalone lesson.

If it's a standalone lesson, every one of them has its unique URL. You could email it to the student. And so that then is available for the student. But the grading help, the help of knowing how the student is doing. You're going to need to set up a classroom here. And it's free. Now when I say that, and I'm getting way ahead of myself, they had LLMs that they had linked to.

If you use Canvas, if you use Schoology, if you use Google Classroom, those are the three that they have linked with. And I use Google Classroom, and suddenly, the grades all appeared in my gradebook, which was so cool. So all of those things are there. Now, this was the list that they gave of all the things that they've got Flexi doing. So this is the time we get to personalize.

We can use it for diagnostics, adapting content, adapting, learning, interactive and engaging. That was one of the things that they worked on a few years back when they went to the FlexBooks 2.0. It was the interactive element. And so you've got all sorts of things that can be added that are interactive or videos, that type of stuff.

Homework support. I love the fact that helping them with critical thinking. There's over 100 people who have given testimonials. And I have finally listened to all of them and the things that they learned. And one of them was a teacher, that was a science teacher, and she said that over time, the students began to learn to heed what it was saying.

They learn themselves, rather than just sitting there in the chair and waiting for the teacher to say, this is the assignment, and you learn only what you need to know so that you pass the test. That she found the critical thinking of her students just soared because it empowered them to be able to find answers. These remediation, foresight and insights are things that we're going to see that helps that are for the teacher.

OK, this is what you saw when you got online. This is your first screen. And notice up on the top, it goes, here's your Search bar, and then you go to switch to Student Version. That's how I know I'm in a teacher. And that bar will say, switch to the Teacher Version, if you're in the other side. So it's a toggle back and forth, back and forth. OK, there's the Sign In and the Sign Up.

A free assistant for every teacher, and that was the new thing a year ago, was that Flexi was going to help the teachers. If we go to Search along that top bar, this is what you will find. They're asking the question, what do you want to teach today? And you can see that some of their math courses interacted, some of the math courses are conventional. That means it was probably created before they changed to 2.0. So they're there.

And I've had interesting experiences going with both. You can go anywhere and try anything because that's how you're going to find what you want to use. I had an ESL teacher that looked at it and said, but there's nothing that I think I can use. And I said, OK, all right. So I went to the lowest science course that they had. And I clicked on it, and it was a poem about shadows-- me and my shadow.

And one of the things that I struggled with when I was working with my students was the bouncing bunnies. That there's so many things out there online that are at a low reading level, but they're bouncing bunnies. They're children's. And I didn't want that. I have not found that anywhere. You may have pictures of children. But you can change the picture if you want a different one. But it's not geared to the interactive qualities and things like that. Are not with that kind of-- and I appreciated that.

Original courses were the STEM courses, science, technology, engineering and math. The partnership courses that they have-- and they've partnered with districts. There's a district in Texas that they looked at the amount of money that they could save. Think about it. How much money do we pay on textbooks?

And they're obsolete when they're on your desk because whatever happened in history last week is no longer there. And so the frustration we have is the cost, and that it's constant. We have to keep paying it just to be up to date, whether it's up to date with science or whether it's up to date with what's happening in history. With CK-12, let's say you use the government course.

Well, they didn't change that course after what happened last weekend, but you can. You can go in and add whatever happened and keep everything up to date. And you can keep it local, too. What's happening in your town? What's happening in your community? And so it makes it exciting. Now notice, I've circled it here, the section on adult education because we were so proud to partner with them. They realized that there was a part of the community that they weren't assisting, and they wanted to.

Now, where did those courses come from? Here. Packaged and rearranged. And some of them are brand new that teachers have newly created. Some of them, though, are what's here that was then just rearranged and adapted for. There's less. Now, you may not want a textbook, even if it's a digital textbook that's interactive and it has videos in it. Maybe you're not interested in that. But they have other things.

They have simulations in physics and chemistry. They also have study guides-- really good ones-- mostly in your sciences and your maths. Adaptive practice, and that was the thing I told you about where there's 10 questions and whether the student answers correct or incorrectly, it is adaptive for them so that the next question will. And then it tells you how they're doing. Uh-huh?

Audience: I have a question. Has any, that you're aware of, has any adult school use this as their coursework for students to graduate, actually, get a diploma?

Debbie Jensen: Yes. Yes. And down here where it says "Schools," you will find out ones that are locally, and probably, we could ask CK-12 of ones nationally. I know that in Texas, there are some. I know that we have a lot of homeschool, and that is it.

Audience: The reason I ask you that is because our adult schools, high school diploma, the classes, they're OK, but I think they could use some polishing.

Debbie Jensen: Absolutely.

Audience: And if we could use this instead of what we have or in addition to what we have. It would be probably better.

Debbie Jensen: Right. And it will be exciting.

Audience: But obviously, we'd probably have to have the board, like it had board approval or whatever, to make sure that--

Debbie Jensen: Right. The standards that they have used are the Common Core standards because of course, it was geared for CK-12. We have had one of the math courses done with a CCR because it requires us to go in and look to see if this then qualifies. But there are districts that are using it.

Audience: Does it automatically correct the assignments for the students? Or do teachers have to go in and do that?

Debbie Jensen: If you have used a class through them or through one of the LLMs I mentioned, it corrects them. And--

Audience: Say that again?

Debbie Jensen: --it records the score. And not only does it record the score, but it gathers the information about the student. How much time did they spend on it? We never know how much time they spent. Now, they failed and they spent two seconds. Well, that's probably why they failed, or that they spent two and a half hours and they failed.

And so then they will give you suggestions of prerequisite knowledge that they didn't get. It looks like they don't have. And give you the lessons that you can go through for them. So as a teacher, it's a wonderful partnership for knowing what to do. I put this slide in because as a teacher, the goal was always to meet every student's need, and that was always impossible. But it isn't now. It isn't now. You can personalize.

Audience: You said, just like Khan Academy, can we create our own classrooms and then assign work?

Debbie Jensen: Absolutely. You can create a class here, and they will assist you in the setting it up, and the assignments that are given, and the grading and all of those things. So, yes, they will do that. All right. The next one. Yes. I can't sell this enough. I need to show you. So this is where the adult education is. Isn't that a lovely slide? That's Norco.

And so because of the inability I have of being able to show and have you here and have them see the video, I won't share with you the testimonials from our people, but they're there. Go back and check them. We've got new teachers. We've got Neda from Ocean, we've got Zachary from the state. And so all of them talking about what this can accomplish for us. So, OK, let me go live.

Audience: I do have another question.

Debbie Jensen: Yes?

Audience: I have a very unusual job. I won't go into what it is, but it's mainly packet work. It's reaching out to people all over the state. Sometimes, I just need something to make the lesson bigger. And so I would, obviously, create lessons. I'm looking for something that I don't have to do that, like literally cut and paste. But it doesn't look like I can do that here.

Debbie Jensen: Yes, you can.

Audience: OK. So I just want to know if I can down these lessons as PDFs.

Debbie Jensen: Yes, you can print everything.

Audience: So we'll get to that later.

Debbie Jensen: No, you can't. And that's good because there are schools that that's required. Your students do not have access to the internet, and so you might have the computer lab once a week, but that's not good enough. But you can download these now. They're interactive won't work. But it's, yes, you can download, and you can create PDFs. All right.

So let's see if I can do this. I'm so used to having two screens so that I can move stuff around. All right, so here we are. This is the screen. And so let's go to the Subjects. And you'll see the screen. That had all the choices of subjects that you might like to use. You can see countries that have adopted them. You can see translations. They're working more and more in Spanish.

Now, some of the lessons are using Google Translate so that's why they can say they've got thousands of languages. But there are some that they're actually creating the lessons in. Spanish is one they're working on currently. All right. If we go over here to explore, this is where you see the screen of all the different kinds of things that you have that can go there and see what's there.

I became a certified educator because what they teach you is everything you're going to want to use if you want to create your own course. So it was like I created my own course by their lessons, and that was very helpful. CK-12 is very anxious to help you.

Audience: For what? I'm sorry. What are, exactly, all these things?

Debbie Jensen: OK. Flexi, you can learn more about Flexi. That's the top one on the left. Then your FlexBooks 2.0, that happened about golly 10 years ago, where they suddenly put in the ability for you to make the changes. So that toolbar that you have that allows you to put in videos, and put in images, and change text, and that kind of stuff. That's what happened with 2.0, the FlexBooks. Those were the old ones, but they're still very good. But that's what that is. Schools are those that are using them. They will tell you, at first, the ones that are close to you.

Audience: So this is basically like all these different ways of creating your own individualized lessons?

Debbie Jensen: This is what they've got. This is what they've got. OK, I'll show you how to make one. OK, study guides, science and math, adaptive practice, building knowledge at each student's skill level, your simulations. These are interactive, and so you can change things. And then you'll see what happens when you change things.

Plix, play, learn, interact and explore, and we can take a look at those, as well. Then you've got your standards, next generation science standards, and the CSS, which are the Common Core Standards, becoming a certified instructor, and then webinars. And they've got a big library of all sorts of webinars.

And then they have a YouTube channel of little three to five minutes. An hour, who's got that? But I got three minutes to get this question answered about how to do something. So those that are there. Then you can have fun with the testimonials about this. Lots of ideas.

Audience: I don't mean to cut your progress, but one question I was exploring, the adult education. You have only three or four tabs there, like the CK-12. So are they limited for adult education, like intermediate grammar, basic grammar?

Debbie Jensen: Let's take a look. All right. All right. So let's go back. Let's go down here to the adult ed section.

Audience: So, yeah, basic, that's right.

Debbie Jensen: Well, that's the first one of it.

Audience: That's one.

Debbie Jensen: OK, and now I can scroll up. They don't have an actual link to the information about adult ed and the linking between OTAN and how they help us. So definitely, scroll up and enjoy that. The videos are excellent, and they're being shared with your students, graduate and all that.

OK, so now here's the adult basic education, the ABE. If you look carefully, you notice that most of them are math-- because these were for me. [chuckles] So these were my iterations, and then me going and finding some more to add. The last one, ABE basic science, was I needed some reading at a lower level.

So I took the low-level science, and then I picked the ones I wanted. Things that my students would be interested in, like earthquakes. Yeah, you're here in California. You want to learn about it. And so whatever lessons, these were geared for fourth and fifth graders, and that's what I worked from. And then of course, I wanted to add quizzes. And I use their bank of questions.

Audience: And where did you get these all again?

Audience: Could you just go into the first one? And then answer your questions about it?

Debbie Jensen: Foundational math. OK. Now, when you're here, a couple of things you'll see, you can add it to your-- this one has already been added to my library. Right in the center, it says Added to Library. So I know that I do have a copy in my library. Don't need to add it again. If I come down here to the Choose, that I can assign this-- it's in my library already. So there was a place where I could add it to my library. There, I can customize it.

So it's going to open up. I can change the name. If there's a problem in it, put your students' names in it. Wouldn't that be fun? [chuckles] The problems are there. So you can customize it. When they say add it to FlexBook 2.0, what you're doing is you're creating a FlexBook, and you're taking from any place you want, to that same one.

And so let's say, you're creating two, for reading one and a math one. Well, so they'll open it up, and they'll say, which one do you want to put this in? Which lessons do you want? And then you can go back, and you can delete what you don't want. You can rearrange whatever you want to do.

Audience: What is the FlexBook? I don't know what FlexBook?

Debbie Jensen: FlexBook was the name they gave to the ability to have the interactivity. And we'll take a look, and you'll see what I mean when I say interactive. You can share it to the class, and you can download it as a PDF.

Audience: Perform to give you a flexibility.

Debbie Jensen: Yeah, they came up with a name. I don't know if it's-- Now, this particular flexbook was created by Shana Friend, who is a high school equivalent teacher up in Washington. And she used CK-12 to adapt it to the GED, HiSET tests. And so all of the science is what's in the HiSET, or the GED. I think hers was the GED in Washington.

And so there's not the other sciences because you could have a million kinds of science questions but not on the test. So it's adapted to what is there. But she also added this, and I love this. I'm opening up the first lesson under Introduction, and what this is-- Flexi opens up every time because they don't know when you're going to need help. But you can always get Flexi because Flexi is still here in the corner. So it's not like you need to have it open, but it can be open if you want it to be.

OK, so here we've got-- she's saying you may have troubles using CK-12. And other adults sometimes are intimidated by online learning and this kind of stuff. And so she created videos-- introduction to CK-12 lessons, learning through reading, how to highlight and take notes, because you can do that here. Now, as an ABE teacher, the ability to take notes, to highlight-- I want the main idea in green. I want your examples in a different color.

That's pretty fun to be able to do. And so she has that here. Come on. She has changing the language, how to do that, how to use clicks and interactives. Now, that's cool. You can create your own. Do you have time? No, use hers. [chuckles] See, that's the point. The point is, anything you find, you can use. We don't have to worry about copyright and all of those things. Now, if you're creating your own, always copyright applies. So you can't say page 52 in the ESL textbook because that then would be a copyright violation.

Now can you do that and keep it within your class so that no one else ever sees it and you never-- yes. Just because you create a book here doesn't mean that suddenly, everyone in the world is going to see your book. No, you have to share it. And in fact, the way you do it is you contact me and I make sure it gets uploaded into the adult ed section. And we would then say, please, be sure that you have not included materials that are copyrighted.

Audience: Could you put in the standards, and then it would create a book from what the standards you're looking for? Like you look at standard, you want to add, subtract, multiply and divide just numbers or whatever? Like I just created a book, I think, and I put for first grade, second grade levels, and I the only thing I wanted was adding. But it gave me things for all numbers.

Debbie Jensen: Just take a look at whichever one you like, and add that to a classroom.

Audience: I don't think I meant to, but I did it by accident.

Debbie Jensen: But OK, I've done that. I have so much in my library that's like, I'm not going to use that ever again. So when you go to your library, you'll see a whole lot of ways to filter so you can get rid of those. So it's very helpful. OK, so that's there. Now while I'm here, I'll show it to you. Up here is the toolbar. It looks like tools. And you'll see that they have the learning analytics, and that's on the right. It's the top one.

And this is where they're going to give information to the teacher. And so there going down to the side, they're going to tell you how long they were in it. They're going to tell you where they are placed in and what they've learned. It will also have a heat map so that you can see who's having trouble. All of those things are there.

Related content on this one, it doesn't have any, but you can. And usually in the CK-12, they do. Because they know that people learn in different modalities. And so videos can be added there. Maybe you've got some videos that you don't want to put actually in the text, but you want them to be there because, maybe, someone needs it. You can add them there.

There's the place where it says notes and highlights and resources. Again, actions assigned to the class. Share to the class, add the flexbook And so all of these things are kind of redundant. They're not one place you can find them-- so that you can find them, which I appreciate. OK, so let's go back. And I can go on the breadcrumb trail, which is right down here under the name of the book. And I'm going to go to a lesson. Let's go to percents.

OK. Now, what I did just then was something that is commonly a mistake made. Percent, that was the chapter. And in the chapter, you can change the name, you can do the directions, you can do things like that, but you can't. That's not the lesson. So when you click on it, then you open the lessons. And the lessons are very all the fun is. Now, we're just looking, so we're just going to go find the part of the percent problem.

So what you're going to see here-- I'm going to get rid of Flexi again. So minimize Flexi. And I'm scrolling down. I have already highlighted some things. And so if I go over here to my toolbar, the things that I have highlighted are all gathered in one place so they can create notes as they go along from the text if they desire to.

OK, so we have videos that are added. We have problems that are added. More videos. And then at the bottom of this one, it's going to be-- I missed the launch. I'm sorry. The launch is one of the interactives that they have.

OK, so that's an interactive. And then at the bottom, another interactive, with that, another one. I'm sorry, I'm not able to really move around easily. At the bottom, there was something that said it was a quiz instead of a practice. The practices are created by CK-12, and that's the one that uses AI to decide where the next question is going.

Quizzes would be what you and I would create. And so the questions would be there, and they would be graded as whether they're right or wrong. All right. Now, another way to move around is here. So I can go to the next, and I can change the questions. I can change the images. I can add videos that I've found.

We had a food services department, and they were always talking about how to do percentages and stuff in the cooking and the things they needed to do, and they had created a set of their own videos. You can put them in so that people from your school are there. So that's exciting. Let's go back. Let me show you.

You wanted to see what we have done so far with ESL. We are very proud of what we've done. It's just a beginning. I would like to see all the ASE ones here.

Audience: I would, too.

Debbie Jensen: Fabulous. Because the platform is quite simple to use, so that would be nice. OK, so there's ABE. Then you've got the high school diploma. Notice it has a pretty big set of what you need. You need US history. You need US government. You need economics, biology, chemistry, physics. Free algebra.

Audience: High school equivalency.

Debbie Jensen: Yeah, that's that. And then the high school equivalency, it is here. If you've been in the high school equivalency, you'll see the names. Like data statistics and probability, that's right out of it.

Audience: Again, I mean, I love it has math and science. Is it because it's based on STEM? What about reading?

Debbie Jensen: She's working on that one.

Audience: OK, because it's math, science, social studies.

Debbie Jensen: Right. And that's where she's at. She's continuing to work. Each year, she works on a different part of it. OK, here's our career tech. The first one, career and technical education topics was me trying to prove to my school that there were things for cosmetology, there were things for automotive, there were things for all of them.

Now, is it a complete course? No. But it's materials that you can use that the students are going to be able to access when they're at home, and they can get help with what they're going through. The anatomy and physiology. I ask the health teacher, and she is very picky. No, she's very critical-- in a good way. Because she said no, there's things that you have to have. And if you don't have it, it's just not a biology book. You've got to have more. And they were here.

So she was extremely pleased with the breadth of what's here. I think that when I had to update everything, it was like 68 lessons. This is huge. And they're beautiful and well done. Like you did nerve cells.

Audience: I am here at basic grammar, and he wrote this book. Says Debbie Jensen.

Debbie Jensen: You are looking at that?

Audience: Yeah.

Debbie Jensen: Sorry about that. OK, so here's your nerve cells. Notice the green? The green was because they realized that there are words in textbooks that our students don't know. And so you hover over them, and there's the definition. Isn't that nice? That's very nice. I like that. This is where you can take notes, you can highlight, and do those things. And everything you do is gathered for you. So you've got diagrams.

And then this one, we have view the practice. OK? All right, so let's go back. So career technical. This one is brand new. The one that's on home health aide. That was created by one of our OTAN who was still working as a teacher, and she created the course, and she used it in her school. And so it is comprehensive, and she even created the diagrams herself because she wanted to be sure that she had no problem with this.

The introduction for the home care aide, it's very specific for applying for a license. She used the actual addresses in her area. So you'd want to go in, and you would want to make that reflect what's happening in your school so you can find the things that you need for that so that you can get the help for the students. But amazing things, teaching them how to do it. And I know that health care aide is one of the-- what would we say, exploding as everybody gets older? And so this is a great one that's already created for you. And that to me is--

Audience: Can I have one comment?

Debbie Jensen: Uh-huh.

Audience: All right. I'm under there, because I'm a citizenship teacher, and I'm about to teach the US geography and around, like surroundings and all. I am under the physical geography of the United States and Canada. It says two days for that lesson. When I open that, number one, this is kind of a critique, but probably, I need a clarification. This is like I'm reading first to Canada, by the way, and climate everything. It's like reading a Wikipedia for me.

Debbie Jensen: There are some of the courses that are very text intense

Audience: Very [muffled] from somewhere

Debbie Jensen: And for me, I would-- or that they have generated, but it's very much text, text, text.

Audience: Very detailed and very unnecessary for me. Like--

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Audience: And then number two, there are some videos embedded in the text mixed up with the Indian territories and all, and there are some videos that are not available anymore. So we are depending on someone else's video. That means it should be updated by somebody.

Debbie Jensen: I appreciate your comment. The updates are made with the CK-12 materials. The community contributed. That one is up to them, and then to notify CK-12. Now in adult ed-- that's me at the end of every school year going through and being sure that the updates are all made. So yes, that is something that if you are going to use this as a core text.

And if the videos-- take a look. Where do they come from? Do you think they're going to be competent and they're going to be competent with them? Add more. Check it out because it's the internet. And I swear, things change overnight. And so, yes, that is a true thing. OK. Now you asked the question about the ESL.

Audience: Correct.

Debbie Jensen: They told me-- I'm an AB teacher, remember-- that they needed some grammar courses. So I went in to the community, contributed, and found Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of materials to use. And so I gathered, and I put them together. And I was extremely proud. Only to find that my ESL teachers said, well, that might work for intermediate and high, but it won't work for the beginning.

So you guys make me a course for the beginners. But you can see what could be added. OK, so now that, you recognize, that's a link to Quizlet. OK? You use Quizlet in your classes, you can link them and have them here. You've got links to English club. And this is the practice that can be inside the actual work.

This one is not graded. This is kind of an assessment that goes along as they're reading to see if they're understanding what's going on. So that was that. And they said again, if you're low-level ESL, this is too high. OK, you've got your progress. There you go, where you're going to cut and paste.

You got your videos. But you can go in, and you can change it. If there's a paragraph that you don't like, fix it. That was so empowering to me that I just loved that idea. All right. So those are the things that we've got for the ESL.