Source: Information is Beautiful Information is Beautiful is a collection of infographics that include all sorts of data about our lives and world. The reality of a student using Information is Beautiful as a source is pretty slim since there are limit infographics available, but, this site could be a source of story starters or…
This special collection presents children’s books selected from the General and Rare Book Collections at the Library of Congress. The collection includes classic works that are still read by children today, and lesser-known treasures drawn from the Library’s extensive collection of historically significant children’s books. The books in this collection were published in the United…
I get asked a lot about uses for the Raspberry Pi. Well, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has you covered. Hello World is an online magazine for educational Raspberry Pi users. Available for free as a PDF, it is published three times a year with articles for the making teacher. The magazine is even a better…
Source: The funniest TED Talks | TED Talks What can I say, it’s all in the title. Ok, maybe I will add a comment. These talks could be an incentive to get students to watch Ted Talks in a new light, one where the students realize that they could actually enjoy a Ted Talk.
It’s all too easy to waste time formatting your Google documents. Others have already put together some excellent templates for your use. If you use Google Docs, here are 24 time-saving templates that’ll let you get on with using the documents, rather than struggling to put them together. Source: 24 Google Docs Templates That Will…
Source: Teach Computer Science & Coding to Kids – CS First Google’s CS First computer science curriculum is a set of resources to help students learn about computer science. The materials are geared for students in grade 9-14 and use Scratch as the programming environment. The curriculum is free to use and students do not…
In 2018, more than 31 million people took virtual courses offered through GCFGlobal – a Goodwill Community Foundation initiative – and their online portal, offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese. This is an astounding number that would rank it just behind Coursera’s reported 37 million registered users in 2018 and more than both Udacity (10 million) and edX (18 million)…
Ok mathematics people, how is it? My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…