Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use their community resources or start your own project space. Registration is free.

Eduforge is designed to provide tools for collaboration at two levels; Read the rest of this story »

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The Natural Child Project’s vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

This site covers information and advice on all aspects of “attachment parenting” (raising children with respect and trust), unschooling (trusting the child to set the “curriculum”), and child advocacy (including documents from children’s advocacy organizations around the world). In the Table of Contents, articles are listed by author as well as by topic. There is also a search engine for finding specific subjects.

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System dynamics is a method for studying the world around us. It deals with understanding how complex systems change over time. Internal feedback loops within the structure of the system influence the entire system behavior.

Education is an important area of application for system dynamics. Together with learner-centered learning, it forces the learner to become actively involved. The wide range of applications for system dynamics makes it an excellent tool for integrating the material of many subjects.

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The Creative Learning Exchange encourages a view of education for primary and secondary schools based on discovery as the essence of the learning process and advocates systems education implemented through learner-centered learning.

The CLE facilitates communication among teachers and schools to help create a network of schools using systems education. It solicits teaching materials and ideas from participating teachers. The CLE will make such materials available at cost to educators. Some of the currently available materials include: Read the rest of this story »

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Unlike other curriculums, In2Books provides thoughtful book selections, intellectual mentors, and literacy training to an entire community of learners. Students, family members, and adult literacy coaches are all engaged in reading, thinking, and writing about the same intriguing books, which produces results. Independent studies show that 88% of students who participated in the In2Books program scored higher on standardized SAT-9 tests than other student groups. And best of all, students are achieving while reading, thinking, and having fun.

The In2Books program is developed by ePals, Inc. ePals is the first global K-12 collaborative learning and literacy community, focused specifically on fostering reading, writing and critical thinking skills across the curriculum. ePals’ mission is to support lifelong learning through resource-rich, collaborative experiences about subjects that empower and inspire.

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Studies show that young girls enjoy math, science and technology just as
much as boys do. Yet by eighth grade, twice as many boys as girls show
interest in science, engineering and mathematics careers. As a result, only 22
percent of engineers and scientists are women – even though women make
up nearly half the workforce. If this pattern continues, many of today’s girls
will miss out on the jobs of the future.
Girls Go Tech is a Girl Scout initiative to encourage girls to explore the world around them through science, math and technology.

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Welcome to the world’s largest K-12 connected learning community!
ePALS connects learners around the world for sharing and exchanges that foster literacy, language and critical thinking skills in a fun and safe environment. Connecting over 123,907 registered classrooms, more than 7 million students and educators, in 191 countries.

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