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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Resource Blog 2
This may seem like a joke, but I promise it's not--one of the best resources that I have found and personally utilized is a website called ducksters.com. Ducksters is a great resource to use in the realm of social studies because of its simplicity. When I was a middle and high school student (and continuing into college), one of the most difficult things for me was understanding difficult texts and hard-to-read textbooks. When you can't understand what you're reading, it makes the subject a lot more confusing and difficult to understand. Ducksters is an educational website focused on making educational content as simple as possible, and in a broad range of subjects. While I mostly utilize it for brief and easy-to-understand breakdowns of social studies and history, it also has a vast science section. Ducksters.com's main focus is creating simple content for not-simple areas. As an educator, I would continue to use ducksters.com because it makes concepts a lot easier to both learn on my own so that I can translate that to my class, as well as provide as a resource to my students who may be struggling themselves. At the same time, the website provides a nice and well-earned break from the traditional textbook--students can even play geography matching games without leaving the site.
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Hey Michael!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea behind this website, of making simple content for not so simple areas in a certain subject. For me, If I don't understand what's being said in the textbook my mind wonders and I don't absorb what I am reading. With this resource, I can go the certain subject I am having a hard time comprehending and can just simply read it from "Ducksters" simpler point of view. Once I have read the "dumb down" version, I can go back to the difficult text and use that knowledge to better understand what it is saying.
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ReplyDeleteHey Michael,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great resource and I love how it has science topics as well since that's my area of emphasis. The concept behind this website is so simple yet so important. A lot of times reading from the textbook is overwhelming because there's too many words, formulas, and graphics. I like how your resource takes students back to the basics and discusses them in an extremely comprehensible way.
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