by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 8, 2018 | Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, STEM, STEM, Student activities, Uncategorized
Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator behind Hello Ruby – a series of books, and activities that focus on developing computations thinking skills for 4 to 10 year olds. These include things like the ability to decompose a problem, spot patterns,...
by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 6, 2018 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
Sydney Opera House, Arc Centre for Excellence for All-Start Astrophysics, the Australian Museum, and Reef Headquarters are just a few organisations that offer incursions via virtual conferencing. Check out this post by the DET Virtual Conferencing team at to see a...
by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 5, 2018 | Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Digital Literacy, Digital Tech Curriculum
About Safer Internet Day Safer Internet Day (SID) is an annual, worldwide event held on Tuesday 6 February 2018 to help encourage a better internet, with this year’s theme ‘Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’. Celebrated globally in...
by Tamara Carpenter | Jan 29, 2018 | Class Activities, Curriculum
Embrace of diversity, a right to be involved and included, valuing everyone as an equal. Play the video to hear Victorian students’ perspectives on inclusive education and download a copy of the poster they developed: What inclusion means to me poster (pdf –...
by Penny Rowe | Nov 21, 2017 | Digital technology, Events, Professional Learning, Uncategorized
Join in on this free online conference, 2nd December 2017, hosted by Google for Education. Hear from inspiring speakers, get tips and tools to help students get future ready, boost collaboration and productivity in the classroom. Inspirational speakers such as Jan...
by Penny Rowe | Nov 9, 2017 | Curriculum, Digital Resources, Digital Technologies, Uncategorized
There are countless education blogs worldwide focusing on education. Within this thriving community is Global2, which is used widely by Victorian Schools to share learning and teaching. Each month the Teaching and Learning branch look at the data of new blogs being...
