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Teaching and learning in the 21st Century - meeting the pedagogical challenges of digital learning and innovation for the iGeneration
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Leonardo da Vinci's Huge Notebook Collections, the Codex Forster, Now Digitized in High-Resolution via Open Culture



It may seem like a bizarre question, but indulge me for a moment: could it be possible that the most famous artist of the Renaissance and maybe in all of art history, Leonardo da Vinci, is an underrated figure?
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Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion: Features 30,000 Images, Covering 3,000 Years of Fashion History

Google Creates a Digital Archive of World Fashion: Features 30,000 Images, Covering 3,000 Years of Fashion History | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it

Both the fashion and art worlds foster the creation of rarified artifacts inaccessible to the majority of people, often one-of-a-kind pieces that exist in specially-designed spaces and flourish in cosmopolitan cities. Does this mean that fashion is an art form like, say, painting or photography?
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Rose Gray's curator insight, May 4, 2021 8:59 PM
showing fashion trends and cycles through...centuries!!
Laura's curator insight, May 23, 2021 10:16 PM
Advertising Google's Arts & Culture fashion collection, this article outlines possible uses for this huge archive of images, including immersive 360 VR vids for use in classrooms, especially for fashion and textiles students.  Cross curriculum options for history, sustainability, popular culture and English.  
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Over 200 Art Books Are Now Free to Download and Read from Open Culture via Educators' Technology

Over 200 Art Books Are Now Free to Download and Read from Open Culture via Educators' Technology | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
GwynethJones's curator insight, April 30, 2017 11:17 PM

FREE Art Books? Yes, Please!

Sandy Schuler's curator insight, May 1, 2017 9:21 AM
Great resource.
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A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures

A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
  1. For the past decade, we've been busy rummaging around the internet and adding courses to an ever-growing list of Free Online Courses,
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Watch Animated Introductions to 25 Philosophers by The School of Life: From Plato to Kant and Foucault

Watch Animated Introductions to 25 Philosophers by The School of Life: From Plato to Kant and Foucault | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Philosophy as an academic subject is regularly maligned in popular discourse. Philosophy majors get told that their studies are useless. Philosophy professors find their budgets cut, their courses scrutinized, and their character grossly impeached in propagandistic religious feature films.
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Over 200 Free Textbooks for Teachers

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Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses & More | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Santa left a new Kindle, iPad, Kindle Fire or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we'll do ours. We'll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media -- great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn't get a new gadget, fear not.
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180 MOOCs to Start the New Year - From Open Culture

180 MOOCs to Start the New Year - From Open Culture | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Once the MOOC 'revolution' got underway, universities, usually slow-moving and tight-fisted institutions, couldn't run fast enough to put their own MOOCs online. And, right now, we're seeing the results.
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200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More

Get free K-12 video lessons; mobile apps; audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and web resources for kids!
Oskar Almazan's curator insight, November 1, 2017 8:20 AM
This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress. Please tell us if we're missing something good.
 
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Over 60 Free Math Textbooks for Teachers (to supplement other resources!) curated by Educators' Tech & Open Culture

Over 60 Free Math Textbooks for Teachers (to supplement other resources!) curated by Educators' Tech & Open Culture | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
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Tons of Classic Works Are Available for Free Download from Open Culture (via Educators' Technology)

Tons of Classic Works Are Available for Free Download from Open Culture (via Educators' Technology) | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
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The History of Civilization Mapped in 13 Minutes: 5000 BC to 2014 AD via OpenCulture

The History of Civilization Mapped in 13 Minutes: 5000 BC to 2014 AD via OpenCulture | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it

Above, watch 'a geopolitical history of all empires, nations, kingdoms, armies and republics' unfold in 13 minutes.
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Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web

Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.
Daniela Brea's curator insight, January 16, 2016 4:27 PM

No miré con mucho detalle, pero creo que puede haber material interesante...

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Update from Open Culture - 1,150 Free Courses From Top Universities: 35,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures

Update from Open Culture -  1,150 Free Courses From Top Universities: 35,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
During these summer months, we've been busy rummaging around the internet and adding new courses to our big list of Free Online Courses, which now features 1,150 courses from top universities. Let's give you the quick overview:
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Free audiobooks, ebooks, etexts, and more...(Open Culture)

Free audiobooks, ebooks, etexts, and more...(Open Culture) | iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation) | Scoop.it
Get free K-12 video lessons; mobile apps; audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and web resources!
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