{"id":76275,"date":"2021-08-06T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76275"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:04:05","slug":"fintropolis-a-tool-to-middle-schoolers-about-finances-careers-taxes-budgeting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/08\/06\/fintropolis-a-tool-to-middle-schoolers-about-finances-careers-taxes-budgeting-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Fintropolis: A tool to teach middle schoolers about finances, careers, taxes, budgeting, investing, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixelkin.org\/2021\/08\/03\/fintropolis-is-an-educational-minecraft-world-that-teaches-middle-schoolers-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fintropolis is an educational Minecraft world that teaching middle schoolers finance<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from pixelkin.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Two years ago, Ally Financial, a financial services company, hired four interns from Historically Black Colleges and Universities through their Moguls in the Making program to promote financial literacy in younger students. The four college students, Erin Martin (Alabama A&amp;M), Earl Perry and Keishon Smith (Florida A&amp;M), and DeMari Tyner (North Carolina A&amp;T) designed\u00a0Fintropolis, a world in Minecraft, available now for free in Minecraft and\u00a0Minecraft: Education Edition.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/content\/minecraft-edu\/language-masters\/en-us\/lessons.html\/fintropolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-76276 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fintropolis-Aug2021-1024x735.jpg\" alt=\"Learn about life-boosting financial skills, including careers &amp; jobs, taxes, budgeting, savings, credit, identity protection and investing.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fintropolis-Aug2021-1024x735.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fintropolis-Aug2021-150x108.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fintropolis-Aug2021-768x551.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fintropolis-Aug2021.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintropolis is an educational Minecraft world that teaching middle schoolers finance &#8212; from pixelkin.org Excerpt: Two years ago, Ally Financial, a financial services company, hired four interns from Historically Black Colleges and Universities through their Moguls in the Making program to promote financial literacy in younger students. The four college students, Erin Martin (Alabama A&amp;M), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,286,343,215,533,373,180,46,102,7,838,510,228,216,66,212,195,321,367,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-experimentation","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-innovation","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-microsoft","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76291,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76275\/revisions\/76291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}