Edutopia is a comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education. They emphasize core strategies: project-based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, educational leadership and teacher development, and technology integration. This is funded from the George Lucas Educational Foundation as a free resource.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
Can be used as part of teacher workshops and other teacher education classes. The material should be used a a reference from which teachers can build lessons.
Technical Requirements:
Any browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Not really a learning goal, but the mission of Edutopia is the transformation of kindergarten through 12th-grade (K-12) education so all students can thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives. We are focused on practices and programs that help students acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, skills and beliefs to achieve their full potential.
Edutopia offers teachers a place to find articles without having to spend hours searching the web.
Target Student Population:
Teachers K-20.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This website offers real-world information and teacher networking to share learning resources in one place. All the information pertains to academic discipline focusing on the practices and programs helping students to receive and apply knowledge, attitudes, skills, and beliefs in order to achieve their potential in the world. The website incorporates videos and social networking to promote a community of learning resources.
Concerns:
None
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This website allows educators to implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and integration of technology in order that their students are learning in an engaged manner.
Concerns:
None
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The web site design is clean and easy to navigate. The colors are bright and attractive. There is a comprehensive browsing feature accessed through a dropdown menu. When users do a search, results are sorted by topic. This type of result makes the search feature quite powerful for accessing the needed information. Navigation of the site is simple.
Concerns:
None
Creative Commons:
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