Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation

http://www.edutopia.org/

Edutopia.org
Tyler Jenkins

Edutopia.org is a website for the Geroge Lucas Educational Foundation in which "students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve are all empowered to change education for the better." It does so by following the constructivist learning theory in which students learn how to learn. The main focus of the website is to give schools resources that allow learning through performing experiments, social-emotional learning, using innovation to find solutions, and access to new technologies. The website also focuses on students learning three important skills: By providing resources, such as videos, articles by grade levels, classroom guides, and blogs, the site seems that it has the potential of being very useful to teachers, especially those that strive to have a more constructivist-based classroom.
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