Design Maps For Learning
For enthusiastic, time-constrained educators, The Purple Pen is a learning map design tool that makes the planning of inspirational teaching easier. No learning design tool like this exists.
What is The Purple Pen?
Through The Purple Pen, you can easily
- Design a unique learning map (for example, a syllabus, project plan, unit plan, week plan, or lesson plan)
- Invite others to join your learning map's design team
- Communicate with the design team about any decision
- Customize anything (!) in your learning map and its lesson plan
- Edit the aligned standards from your state
- Import from over 150+ common learning activities
- Establish the available instructional and homework time
- Teach the learning map from within any setting: classroom, virtual, or blended
Why choose The Purple Pen?
Innovative Approach
The Purple Pen believes in engaged, curiosity-driven learning. Through well framed driving questions, a Purple Pen learning map invites the student’s greatest asset into the learning process: curiosity.
Cognitive and Social/Emotional
The Purple Pen facilitates the design of learning maps that build cognitive, social, and emotional skills within students.
Learning for the Real World
Facilitating project-based and problem-based learning design, The Purple Pen prepares the student to think independently, critically, and creatively!