Sharing Web Resources

We were asked to pick an international website share.  I decided to share Edutopia which is The Georgia Lucan Education Foundation (GLEF) is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives. Their vision is of a new world of learning, a place where students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve are all empowered to change education for the better; a place where schools provide rigorous project-based learning, social-emotional learning, and access to new technology; a place where innovation is the rule, not the exception; a place where students become lifelong learners and develop 21st-century skills, especially three fundamental skills: how to find information; how to assess the quality of information; how to creatively and effectively use information to accomplish a goal. It’s a place of inspiration and aspiration based on the urgent belief that improving education is the key to the survival of the human race. They call this place Edutopia, and they provide not just the vision for this new world of learning but the real-world information and community connections to make it a reality. I feel in love this site because Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement the strategies of Comprehensive Assessment, Integrated Studies and Social and Emotional Learning. The trending that was interesting to me is resilience and grit.  Resilience is bouncing back from adversity. Grit is the persevering through challenges.