Features ABC News videos based on current affair issues and events happening around the world. Watch online videos of weekly TV episodes on the ABC channel. Introduces young people to the world of news.

Blog tracking new words and phrases in popular use. The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words. Word Spy features new terms that have some traction in the language, meaning that they’ve appeared at least three times in print or online, ideally in significant sources such as newspapers, magazines, and books.

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One of the most popular destinations to cover teaching, learning, and how technology positively shapes our education. Covers: Research and evidence-driven strategies for professional and self-improvement, Expert guides and how tos for the newest education apps, News recaps of the most important updates for each week, Compilations of the most useful edtech tools and tips and more.

Get the latest online news-kids’ style. Great source of informational text. Lots of photos and videos as well. TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about – and it’s the best nonfiction text you’ll find! TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including…

An innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s always relevant: daily news. It’s easy and amazing. Free non fiction texts that are lexiled and can be adjusted to three levels of difficulty within the article. Anchor standards and quizzes support the piece.

Provides daily resources for teaching and learning with The New York Times, including lesson plans, questions for writing and discussion, quizzes, monthly contests and more. Join the conversation by commenting on any post.

Allows students to search past news articles and archived news to find information about different periods in history or other significant events.

A complete online resource offering: Carefully curated news briefs on topics that matter to educators; Lesson plans, printables, worksheets and thousands of other classroom-ready resources; EdTech tips and ideas as well as reviews of apps, websites and tech products; and a huge library of professional development articles and columns.

Provides members with unlimited access to over 40,000 cross-curricular materials, interactive activities, clip art, tools and custom worksheet generators. New materials are added each week, reflecting member requests and current events. Members also receive a weekly newsletter, highlighting new sections, materials, and unique membership specials.

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Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement. But should everyone be able to program computers? The question is becoming critically important as digital technology plays an ever more central role in daily life. The movement to make code literacy a basic tenet of education is gaining momentum, and its success or failure will have a huge impact…

A new survey, conducted by the British Education Suppliers Association (BESA) in May, suggests that schools that have the means to invest in tablet technology like the iPad are holding back until Windows 8 is released — if it meets expectations, then a number of integration concerns could be wiped out.

Now that access to mobile phones and other electronics is widespread, there are fears of a new digital divide: Poorer kids are wasting more time on their assorted electronic and computer gadgets than more affluent peers.

This week’s post is about HOW to get girls and young women the supports they need to be leaders in the computing-related fields. And, computing is NOT an easy game for anyone to master, especially young girls and women in our culture.

Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world’s largest social network. But he moonlights as a children’s author. His first book is called Lauren Ipsum, and it’s a fairy tale that seeks to introduce children — as young as five or as old as 12 — to the concepts of computer…

Dozens of teachers specialising in computer science are to work in English schools thanks to a partnership between Google and the charity Teach First.

Parents need to be vigilant about the effects of constant stimulation. TAKE a look around you and, in cars, shopping centres and restaurants, chances are you’ll find young children engrossed, not in the world around them, but in their new digital reality.

ZooWhiz – EdAlive’s new online learning system uses a freemium approach. There are many services that have also adopted this model…

ARE your children spending too much time talking and texting on their mobile phones? According to new research, it’s your fault. Or more specifically, the fault of the genes you passed on to them.