January 15, 2025 Power Kids Website Offers Videos, Books on Various Topics Children and their caregivers can do everything from watching videos and reading books to learning about a variety of topics through Power Kids, Pennsylvania’s electronic library. Learn More Power Kids is broken down into 12 e-resources that cover a variety of topics and formats. The electronic library enables children to access videos, books, information on how to be a safe and responsible citizen with eBooks, chat with a librarian, and resources that helps them to learn about everything from history to science. The e-resources available on the Power Kids site include: BookFlix: children can watch videos and read books about animals, celebrations, nature, music, and other topics, some of which are also available in Spanish Britannica School for PreK-5: inspires learners to create, play, and explore, this tool offers nonfiction articles across various subjects Cricket Media Collection: includes hundreds of e-books that can help to build literacy skills in students from grades pre-K through eighth by offering digital access to short-form fiction and nonfiction Discover PA for Kids: provides state symbols, facts, and figures Elementary: provides information such topics as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, and technology True Flix: visitors can learn about people, places, nature, history, and science through e-books on topics such as American Indians, ancient civilizations, the Civil War, the U.S. government, and more KidSpeak – Chinese/Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish/Castilian: learn words and phrases suitable for learners’ age, needs, and interests; includes more than 40 activities, puzzles, and songs For more information on the various resources, visit the Power Kids website.
March 31, 2020 Understanding the Impact of Coronavirus on K-12 Education As of early March, the COVID-19 coronavirus has put about 300 million students out of school around the world, as communities and whole countries try to contain its spread. Join EdSurge for weekly live webinars on how K-12 schools are coping, the move to remote learning, and how students and educators are being impacted by the virus. EdSurge K-12 Editor Stephen Noonoo and other editors and reporters will host different panelists each week to discuss the latest developments in this rapidly evolving situation. Series Topics Some of the topics series panelists will discuss include: equity; special education; universal design for learning; parent communications; social-emotional learning; remote instruction for early learning; and lessons learned from Chinese educators (Wednesday, April 8 at 7 p.m.). Registration To register and learn more, visit the event webpage.
