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If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Some are narrative; others games. Here are fifteen I like. See if one suits you (check here for updates on links):
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Arizona State University and their online high school program, ASU Prep Digital, have put together ASU For You, a library of no-cost resources to help supplement current learning plans.
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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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For many of you, the count may already be down to single digits. May and June aren’t the easiest months of the year and I know that you’re hacking your way through the next few weeks, trying to stay on top of stuff. But it doesn’t have to be painful. These resources can help.
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"As educators, we must take that next step - teaching students to problem-solve and come up with algorithms of their own ..."
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"Since the release of its web-based version, Google Earth has been tremendously incorporated into educational contexts by teachers from all around the world. ..."
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Kapwing is a modern editor for videos, GIFs, and images. Try our free meme maker, resizer, subtitle maker, filters, and more!
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"Teaching STEM is now very cool! Here is a generous list of tech tools that are transforming the way teachers approach STEM education. Utilize these resources to better engage your students, as you connect theoretical concepts with real-world applications.
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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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"Teaching in a digital world, while essential, can be a difficult task. The digital world is constantly evolving, and it can be hard to keep up with new trends. And while students often enter the classroom with a high degree of digital awareness, it is often confined to the world of social media. How then, do educators learn about digital literacy, so they can model and teach it to their students? ..." DigitalLiteracyNational Foundation for Educational ResearchCreative CommonsPlagiarism CheckerDiigoCommon Sense MediaFutEdTeach
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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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Unsplash is a web repository of 200,000 high-resolution images, and every single photo on the site is free to download.
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Stand on the shoulders of giants. "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Features of Google Scholar - Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place
- Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
- Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
- Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
- Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile
How are documents ranked? "Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature."
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"After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to the planet, to human health – and to culture itself. Our blue and green world is becoming greyer by the second. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes." GeoEd Tags: industry, sustainability, consumption, climate change, environment, architecture, resources. Scoop.it Tags: industry, sustainability, consumption, climate change, environment, resources.
Engage students in your classroom with our Top 10 favorite interactive educational technology resources. These websites will help you create new and captivating lesson plans for your curriculum using powerpoint, creative writing methods, and on-screen flashcards.
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"The following resources and thinking routines are from the Visible Thinking research of Ron Ritchhart and Harvard Project Zero
and are available at www.visiblethinkingpz.org."
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In the face of global obesity, photographer Gregg Segal traveled around the world to photograph kids alongside the food they eat.
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I’ve used Participate Collections to organize resources around a topic, easily share session materials after a presentation, and to collaborate with others.
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"Whether it's fake news, real news, world news or just news to you, navigating and understanding the news in a second language can be a really useful way to gain some valuable and authentic insights into the culture of the language ..."
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Best content around Edcamps Collaborative Learning selected by the EdTech Update community.
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