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Educate Yourself!

We've created this page to share educational opportunities. The internet can be used as a powerful tool for growth; you can teach and learn by yourself! Education serves many purposes, among them: to help us understand, to help us make connections, and also to show others we are capable. We know there are many more great educational websites out there. If you find some worth sharing, please email the links to our web administrator

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."      ~ Kofi Annan


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GCF LearnFree.org

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Provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy, and math skills necessary for them to be successful in both work and life. They believe there's freedom in the ability to learn what you want, when you want, regardless of your circumstances.

Link - http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics


Grammar Monster

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The English language is composed of many languages and can be difficult to learn.  English grammar is something few are able to fully master.  For the vast majority of us, Grammar Monster has created this wonderful reference website to answer our grammatical questions!

Link - http://www.grammar-monster.com/


Khan Academy

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The Khan Academy offers a library of videos which covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

 

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

Link - http://www.khanacademy.org/


MIT OpenCourseWare

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OCW provides open access to the core academic content — syllabi, lecture notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures — from MIT courses representing 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT's schools. As of June 2010, the initiative includes materials from more than 2,000 courses, presenting virtually the entire curriculum of the Institute.

Link - http://bit.ly/nsKd0v


Open Culture

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Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Link - http://www.openculture.com/


Post-Incarceration Back-to-School Guide

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Prison Reentry Institute created a planning and information guide for formerly incarcerated persons who would like to continue their education. The guide provides a wealth of information on a variety of topics related to going back to school after imprisonment. Link - http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/BacktoSchoolSummer2010Revision.pdf

 


Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today..

 

Link - http://www.gutenberg.org


Resisting Influence from The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

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Different forms of influence require different strategies and tactics for resisting or neutralizing them.

 

Link - http://www.lucifereffect.com/guide.htm

 


TED Talks

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

Link - http://www.ted.com/talks