WE Charity explained

Craig Kielburger was inspired to take action in spite of the story of Iqbal Masih who escaped child slavery and was murdered for advocating rights for children. It is explained how their fight against child labor has grown into a global movement to provide children with tools that can aid them to free themselves from…

Exploring Out of Eden

This week for our blog post assignment we were tasked to research the Out of Eden journey on National Geographic. At first, I found the different options and abundance of information very confusing, but after looking through you can see each topic has its specific place and everything is organized very professionally. For this blog…

Taking a trip to explore Explore.org

For this week’s blog post assignment, I decided to take a virtual reality field trip to Explore.org. Where they offer live camera points from areas all across the world. Explore.org offers live cameras viewing all environment and animal-based things. These cams offer to learn without leaving the seat of your desk. Students can learn about…

Virtual Reality in Education

Virtual Reality or VR is a simulated experience for people that can be like day-to-day life or the complete opposite depending on what you are doing on it. Although most people use it for video games or at least that is what I know it for, it has shown to be extremely beneficial for students….

Proven benefits of Skype for a classroom

Growing up using Skype as a way to talk to friends truly took my breath away from all the ways it can be used in a classroom setting. Originally I am from a small and rural town in North Jersey and I believe Skype could have been used back then in the ways it is…

Reflecting on Sustainable Development Goal 13

The target for Sustainable Development Goal 13 is described to, “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact.” Things like rising sea levels and increasing global temperature are some of the things that are slowly creeping upon us. When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development occurred climate change was described as, “one of…

Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration

Link for photo For this blog post, we were given the task to pick one of the tools for educators on the list provided. I chose to write about the “Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration” because I found this one personally interesting and would have been a valuable resource to me growing up. You…

How creativity is vital to students.

While scrolling through twitter for an assignment, I found this tweet talking about the new things being introduced to Microsoft Whiteboard. It got me thinking how important creativity is to a learning student. Also in the regards of being able to properly express themselves and make the art they envisioned come to life. Students often…

How it may be time to rethink the Education System.

This article I found on Twitter talks about how the education system has remained the same for years, while there are many new technological advances. It brings up in the beginning how Elon Musk did not like the way his children were being taught so he started his own school. The school Ad Astra focuses…