The George Lucas Foundation supports Edutopia which is a website that is dedicated to promoting what is working in public education. It can be found at http://www.edutopia.org. It is a searchable site that has embedded videos on current topics, articles, teaching resources, blogs to follow, etc. all aimed at informing the learning community and all education stakeholders on cutting edge teaching practices geared to improve learning.
The site is arranged in an online newspaper format where leading articles are placed in the middle of the page with links on either side and there is a navigational bar at the very bottom also for easy access. The page is all-encompassed on one screen. The color and format of the page is easy on the eye and the page is easy to navigate. The site also has a section that shows what the most popular articles are on the site with direct links to these. Viewers of the site can post comments on each article with a date and time posted.
The only negative I see at the moment is that it allows advertisements on the site.
This site is valuable to 21st century teaching and learning because it is a forum for all educational stakeholders to share information and ideas and to communicate about what is working in classrooms around the country. The fact that it is supported by a non-profit organization and not a commercial entity lends itself to really focusing on what's best for learning with hopefully no other agendas.
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I think Edutopia is a great site. The stories about what works and how older teachers are learning to integrate technology into their curriculum can be a real inspiration to our teachers.
ReplyDeleteEdutopia is a great site and can easily be added to your google home page (if you use it) -- everyone should watch the video "Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?" before our next Technology lesson.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I like the video on Project-Based Learning in the Avaitation school.
ReplyDeleteLike the site, ads are a necessary evil to keep the site free.
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