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The Great Interactive Whiteboard Swindle…a 70s themed post!
I was watching a TV series set in the 1970s during the week. My wife and I marveled at the different sets that had been recreated perfectly to reflect the 70s. We openly wondered at how long it must...
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Do you know your CBL from your PBLs?!?
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn“ The above quote could easily be thought of as inspiring Inquiry Based Learning…except that it was said by Benjamin Franklin...
View Article1:1 iPads – Don’t stuff it up! Here’s some ideas…
1:1 iPads are up and running at Kalinda. We’re finally seeing the very exciting pay-off resulting from hundreds of hours of hard work in preparing for and establishing the program. We really wanted to...
View ArticleShould teachers have to pay for the technology they use?
It was reported today that the Australian Education Union in Victoria is taking the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) to court over the requirement of Victorian teachers...
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Reflections from Google Teacher Academy (or how I plan to further ‘Googlify’...
I recently had the privilege and pleasure of attending the latest Google Teacher Academy at Google HQ in Sydney. It was a fantastic experience. 51 amazing educators from 14 different countries in the...
View ArticleDigital Search: are you explicitly teaching it?
One of the things still not adequately covered in our curriculum documents, at least here in Australia, is skills associated with searching for information digitally. Teachers and curriculum writers...
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Which digital device is best for education?
There has never been a bigger choice for teachers and students when it comes to digital devices to support learning. When I started in education just over a decade ago you were a Mac school or a PC...
View ArticleBest Practice Teacher 2015: Relational expert, master curator
It’s an indictment on our profession that we have failed to leverage some of the greatest technological advancements in human history to improve the literacy and numeracy education of our children....
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