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The GLOBE data program
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is an interdisciplinary organization sponsored by major components of governmental agencies. Through the usage of STEM the goal of the organization is to spread awareness to environmental issues while giving future STEM professionals access to the data and tools they need to benefit the world in…
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Human Rights
By: Blaze Kern The tool that I chose to use, and research is the United Nations Human Rights Watch. The reason I chose this is due to it providing an overall outlook and in-depth details about peoples’ current sufferings around the world. Although this may not be a spirit lifting topic, as a history major…
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Teaching about Social Justice By: Emily Faragher
In my Web Tools: Global Learning course, I decided to look into a tool called “Learning for Justice“. I believe that it’s really important to teach students about the discrimination that exists in the world and things that they can do to help make a change. This program seems very useful, because it gives teachers…
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Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature
The Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature (CSMCL) is a great online tool that educators can use to broaden the knowledge of different cultures in the classroom. The goal of this website is to provide children with a wide variety of different books and literature that they can read to help them engage…
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Bilingual Kidspot: Blog #3
By: Gianna Gras. October 10, 2022 The tool that I chose to look at and work with is Bilingual Kidspot. I chose this tool because it seems that it will be a very useful tool to have in a classroom or at home. With Bilingual Kidspot, it offers free online books for grades 3-8 that…
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Films in Education
One tool that I think would work well in the classroom is called Teen Screen. Teen Screen allows educators to decide on a film to watch from their list of movies. Then, as a class, they can all go to a movie theater to watch the film together. Educators are provided with materials to get…
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Global Educators Toolbox: Belouga
Belouga is an educational website that’s based around bringing together classrooms around the world with a primary goal of encouraging global communication with interactive content. One thing to note about Belouga is that there is a free version as well as a paid version. The paid version is $15 per month and has much more…
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Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children
The tool that I would use in my own classroom would be a 5 minute talking circle. In the article New Course Aids Early Childhood Educators in Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children, it mentions a 4-5 hour course that teachers take with one of the subjects being strategies to help identify a child’s…
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We Are Water Protectors
For my future classroom, I want to create a class library with different genres of stories for my students. Having books in my library about diverse groups of people is important to me as well because I want to create a diverse classroom that accepts everyone for how they identify. One book in particular that…
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Educational Technology Blog 3
The tool that I had used for this blog is Discovery Education for elementary school kids. What this website includes is different virtual field trips and demos for students. These people whom conduct this website understand that children are curious and like to have these types of things right at their hand. This website is…