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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I was grading my student’s web pages today, one student’s goals struck me. Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. She said she wanted to earn money, save it, and “create generational wealth.”

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SLIDE: data, interactive tools, and an equity wake-up call (Part 1)

NeverEndingSearch

Despite decades of research consistently showing positive correlations between high-quality programs and achievement, patterns suggest, for today’s children and for children to come, a school library-rich future is, or potentially will not be, evenly distributed. Interactive digital tools will allow us to easily make comparisons.

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Tutor.com’s On-Demand Tutoring Meets ESSA II Standards, Demonstrating Positive Impacts on Student Grades and Attendance

eSchool News

The study, which examined outcomes during the 2022–2023 school year, included a matched analysis sample of 746 students (373 treatment, 373 comparison) in grades 9–12 from El Monte Union High School District. Follow Tutor.com on X (formerly Twitter) @tutordotcom , Facebook @TutorDotCom , and LinkedIn @Tutor.com.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Let’s put her in the library.

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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. Available for students 18 and older in the US.)

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Exploring news visually

NeverEndingSearch

News Explorer presents and connects 300,00 articles a day from 70,000 sources including newspapers, radio and Twitter–visualizing this vast textual content into entities and concepts. National tabs allows for comparisons of coverage across countries.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Other than libraries and news outlets, students were dependent on the educator to provide them with information. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 Possible networks, many with corresponding apps, include: Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Instagram, Blogging sites, Youtube, and other social networks.

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