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Educational technology
- Flipped Classroom Edtech Resources. A Collection of Video Lesson Customization Tools. | The Edtech Function
Resources that help teachers create and customize their own video lessons, making them more interactive by inserting discussion prompts, multiple-choice questions, images, or video. These resources also give teachers and students access to an online library of video lessons from other teachers.
Classroom management
Curriculum content
- Cave painting, contemporary art and everything in between | First things first | Khan Academy
Art history resources
Information literacy
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Project Information Literacy: Preliminary Trends About Recent Graduates’ Lifelong Learning Needs and Practices
“What lifelong learning needs do recent graduates have once they finish college? What information sources and systems do they use for continued learning? During fall 2014, the PIL research team surveyed 1,651 recent graduates from 10 US colleges and universities. Read the survey trends report with preliminary findings from our study (10 pages, PDF, 229KB). Preliminary Trends about Recent Graduates’ Lifelong Learning Needs and Practices,” Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Research Summary, February 17, 2015.” - U.S. millennials post ‘abysmal’ scores in tech skills test, lag behind foreign peers – The Washington Post
This exam, given in 23 countries, assessed the thinking abilities and workplace skills of adults. It focused on literacy, math and technological problem-solving. The goal was to figure out how prepared people are to work in a complex, modern society. And U.S. millennials performed horribly.
Books and reading
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The power of a good book | Teacher | ACER
“Analysis of PISA results has shown a ‘crucial difference’ between youngsters who perform well in the reading assessment and those who perform poorly is not how much time they spend reading, but whether they read daily for enjoyment. ‘On average, students who read daily for enjoyment score the equivalent of one-and-a-half years of schooling better than those who do not,’ (OECD, 2011).”
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