AASL Best Digital Tools 2020: World 101

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL)  has announced their top choices for “electronic resources that provide enhanced learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their educator collaborators.” These resources were formerly separated into the Best Apps and Best Websites for Teaching and Learning and are now combined into the Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning.

 World 101 is a program that “offers information from an independent non-partisan sources about international relations. The world is divided into regions and information is provided for each region on politics, economics, etc. From essays and discussion questions to glossaries and up-to-date reading lists, World101 provides comprehensive teaching resources for each of our modules.”

Shared foundations: Inquire, Curate, Explore

World 101 has this page full of resources for educators. It has a searchable list of topics and each one includes discussion questions, reading materials, and other teaching resources. EconEdLink has this interactive lesson on Globalization that uses the program.

This one minute video shows how this program works:

You can check out our archive of past recommended apps here.