by Sandy Phillips | Sep 17, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Pedagogy, Student activities
Every year, hundreds of students across the nation enter Screen It – The Australian Centre of the Moving Image’s (ACMI’s) epic moving image competition for Primary and Secondary school students. Screen It is designed to educate, encourage and foster the next...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 12, 2015 | Assessment, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Pedagogy, Digital technology, Learning Styles, Pedagogy
James Gibbons has presented a great article around using the SAMR Model to Guide Learning in the way teachers plan and scaffold the learning for their students. He presents a fantastic diagram that is just my cup of tea. He presents: The SAMR Model was developed by...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 9, 2015 | Pedagogy, Professional Learning
Over the holidays I have featured some resources on Global2 that you might not find time to view in a hectic school term. This talk Bring on the learning revolution has been presented as the follow-up to Sir Ken Robinson’s fabled 2006 talk Do schools kill...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 8, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Pedagogy
Over the holidays is a great chance to take some time to relax but also check out some of these Ted Talks. Compiled from Open Colleges here are 50 Ted Talks every educator should check out These are the best TED Talks for any educator because they make us laugh, warm...
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 | Mar 27, 2015 | Challenge, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital technology, Gaming for learning, Pedagogy, Programming
Get your students involved in The Great Victorian Coding Challenge – register your school by visiting the Victorian Education Department website – Click Here Students will be challenged to develop their creativity using the computer program Scratch. Scratch is...
