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Designing effective learning materials can be a challenge. Here are simple tips to help keep your students focused on what's most important. 🌟
4 Design Tips for Creating Better Learning Materials
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Healthy ecosystems provide food, water, medicine, shelter, and more. Yet human activity has profoundly altered most terrestrial habitats.
Urgent action is needed to protect and restore our precious forests. #GenerationRestoration
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A round of applause!
Students and colleagues at @lunduniversity came together to recognise newly named physics laureate Anne L’Huillier.
Drop a 👏 in the comments to congratulate our new Nobel Prize laureate.
Video credit: Nina Ransmyr, Lund University
A round of applause for 2023 physics laureate Anne L’Huillier
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“We all need to take action to save the world.”
– @UNDP Goodwill Ambassador @nikolajcw joined world leaders at last month’s #UNGA to call for urgent #ClimateAction.
Each of us can & must #ActNow for a more sustainable future. See how: un.org/actnow
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💡 There is no such thing as “learning styles.”
💯 Students benefit from more testing.
🧠 Information that's harder to learn is retained longer.
Educational psychologist Jonathan Tullis dispels some of the most widespread misconceptions in education.
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When students own their learning, they view mistakes as learning opportunities 📷
Sketchnote by John Spencer
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“We must do more to protect the dignity and rights of older persons everywhere.”
— @antonioguterres calls for addressing the challenges of longevity & ensuring older people can fulfill their potential. un.org/en/observances/older-… #OlderPersonsDay
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While I am sad that Google is ending support for #Jamboard in 2024, there are a lot of great tools that are as good or better than Jamboard. Here are my three favorites.
Are there any other alternatives that are worth considering?
#GoogleEDU #teacherTwitter #figmaEDU @CanvaEDU
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Today is #WorldHeartDay!
Love your heart ❤️:
🚭Don’t use tobacco
🧂Eat less salt
🥗Eat more fruits and veggies
👟Exercise regularly
🍺Avoid harmful use of alcohol
💊Take your prescribed medication regularly if you have high blood pressure or diabetes
#BeatNCDs
Reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke
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Friday is #WorldHeartDay.
The risk of cardiovascular disease can be reduced by:
🥗🍎 eating a healthier diet
🏃🏽♀️ increasing physical activity
🚭 quitting tobacco
🥃 avoiding harmful consumption of alcohol
More from @WHO : who.int/news-room/fact-sheet…
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Happy 25th Birthday, @Google! 🎂 From #GoogleWorkspaceEdu tools to #Chromebooks and beyond, you've been our digital teaching and learning companion for a quarter of a century. Here's to 25 years of innovation, inspiration, and information 🎉 #Google25
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To achieve the #GlobalGoals & leave no one behind, access to accurate information is essential.
More from @unesco on Thursday's #AccessToInfoDay: en.unesco.org/commemorations…
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🧪Molecular Flashlights that Light Up Science. In this article @NobelPrize winner Martin Chalfie explains how a glowing fluorescent protein from jellyfish can help us understand how cells work and how viruses cause disease.
#NobelPrize @royalsociety @theNASciences
Read more ⬇️
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What we share online can have consequences in the real world.
Misinformation can result in people being left uninformed & can put lives at risk during a crisis.
Take a minute to pause & verify facts before sharing.
Thursday is #AccessToInfoDay. un.org/en/observances/inform…
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Our new collection of super-useful activities to feed your classroom community—sourced from teachers at all grade levels. Add your own in the comments here: edut.to/47gVV1g
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This is no longer news!
🌍🌡️ Climate change is an everyday reality.
And if it worsens, up to 158 million more women % girls could be pushed into poverty by 2050.
This is 16 million more than the number for men & boys.
unwo.men/m4mE50PNCk7
#ClimateAction #GenderData
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We can all do our part to achieve peace, which is central to advancing the #GlobalGoals & a better future for all.
On Thursday's #PeaceDay & every day, join us in spreading kindness & taking action to create a more equitable & peaceful world. 🕊️un.org/en/observances/intern…
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Want your students to really remember something? Ask them to draw it out! ✍️
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
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The air we breathe.
The water we drink.
The food we eat.
Our medicines.
Our livelihoods.
Earth’s ecosystems have extraordinary value & humanity’s survival depends on them. To protect our planet & future, countries must transform economies #ForNature.
Nature Driving Economic Transformation
Nature has the power to drive economic transformation and plays a key role in reaching the Global Goals, as reflected in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.





















