by Sandy Phillips | Jul 1, 2015 | Curriculum, Health Education, History, Literacy, LOTE, Mathematics, music, Reading, Science
Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with ‘topics’ as country reforms its education system Marjo Kyllonen, Helsinki’s education manager – who will be presenting her blueprint for change to the council at the end of this month, said: “It is not...
by Sandy Phillips | May 27, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Online Projects
The Children’s book council of Australia have published the Book of the Year Awards Short List 2015 There are many great books on that list and I am sure you have read many in your classrooms (and the other places you like to read)! This list provides a great...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 29, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital technology, How To, Literacy, New technologies, Professional Learning
Digital technologies can present new and exciting opportunities for students. The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) are presenting a series of three script writing workshops for primary and...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 17, 2014 | CEM Events, Challenge, Connected Educator Month, Digital Technologies, Literacy, New technologies, Professional Learning
Google Drive is a cloud storage service that allows you to store your documents, photos, videos, and more online. From Drive, you can also use Google Docs, Google Sheets, forms and other applications to create and edit various types of files. The power is in the...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 21, 2014 | Curriculum, Literacy
Teachers, why not celebrate Book Week 2014 by setting up your own class Book Club on the State Library of Victoria’s Inside a Dog Just register and then invite your students, all of the technology is there for you free and supported by the fabulous library of...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 28, 2014 | Assessment, Challenge, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Pedagogy, Literacy, Professional Learning
If any teachers out there have had the experience (as I have) of getting back student assignments that are clearly a copy and paste from the web you have to stop and do an analysis. – a self-analysis. What did I ask them to do? It’s too late to turn off the internet...
