by Sandy Phillips | Mar 1, 2017 | Challenge, Class Activities, Coding, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Tech Curriculum, Digital Technologies, Digital technology, Programming, Uncategorized
Students from around the world have real issues and problems they want to solve. Not many of them involve lions. This TED talk is a great tuning in resource for teachers creating maker spaces and students using critical and creative thinking and a bit of technological...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 9, 2017 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Web Conferencing
On Tuesday (despite only going back to school for a few days) 227 teachers had their first ever go at doing a webinar with their students for Safer Internet Day. With close to 13,000 students in Victorian Schools alone, the sessions were well received and the teachers...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 2, 2017 | Digital Learning, Digital technology, Student activities
Hi to you all, hope you had a great break, As you know Safer Internet Day is a global event held annually to promote the safe and responsible use of digital technologies, for children and young people. The theme for 2017 is Be the change: Unite for a better internet....
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 5, 2016 | Challenge, Digital Learning, Gaming for learning, Programming
The Department and Splash, are supporting Code Club Australia to challenge you to build a game using Scratch. Scratch is an intuitive tool to help children from 8 to 16 years old learn to code. Scratch helps students think creatively, reason systematically and work...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 16, 2016 | Gaming for learning, How To, Professional Learning
Teachers are invited to attend a Minecraft: Education Edition Workshop Date: Tuesday 22nd November Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm Location: The Peninsular School, Mt Eliza Register: http://aka.ms/learnminecraftEE Overview: Trent Ray (Microsoft Teacher Ambassador) and Dean...
by Sandy Phillips | Oct 27, 2016 | Class Activities, Coding, Curriculum, Data visualisation, Digital Resources, Engineering, Mathematics, Online Resources
The Wolfram suite of products includes powerful learning tools across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and is internationally recognised as the global industry standard for engineers, economists, scientists and mathematicians. The suite has four...
