by Sandy Phillips | Oct 12, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Stories, Digital technology, Mathematics
ABC Splash are setting a maths mission for students: grab a smartphone or a video-recorder, explain a maths idea in 30-seconds, then enter it into their “Make a maths movie” competition. They will select three entries with the best explanations to be...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 10, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, Digital Resources
Congratulations to all of the students, and their teachers who have made the finals at this years Atom awards. Some amazing films on a variety of topics. Check them out This film makes a great teaching resource in both its art and form, but also its subject matter....
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 5, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Literacy
Ibrar Bhatt Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University has written an article that will resonate with many teachers. It explores the need for contemporary skills, digital literacy skills and effective ways to assess them. He writes under a subheading : Digital...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 27, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital technology
How do we teach young children about social media? There is no one way, as the teachers who are using Global2 know. A New York teacher Jennifer Aaron tweets with her very young students at PS 150. “We tweet as a whole class three times a week,”she told the New York...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 20, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Programming
A terrific article by Kira DeVaul featured in Common Sense Media’s summer edition (for the US and Europe) presents some great options for teachers to use in their classrooms and give to their students to explore around coding. She has organised these into three...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 10, 2015 | Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, Parents
This article is one that your school can share with parents. Marianne Stenger is a writer with Open Colleges. Find her on Twitter @MarianneStenger The article was featured on ABC Splash. She has written a thought provoking article about what she calls...
