by Sandy Phillips | Nov 5, 2014 | Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Early Childhood, Online Resources, Parents, Pedagogy, Professional Learning, Research
Victoria has released it’s digital learning strategy. Unlocking the Potential – A digital learning strategy for Victorian education and early childhood development settings sets out three interconnected strategic themes – learning, technology and change...
by rcrellin | Sep 9, 2014 | Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Professional Learning
The Department’s Virtual Conference Centre is providing four iPads for Learning short courses for teachers and leaders who are using iPads in their teaching and learning. Each short course will contain three sessions, with each one hour session building upon the...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 14, 2014 | Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Research
Taryn Degnan from Commonsense Media suggests that: “Every kid knows how to Google, but do they know how to Google well? A wealth of built-in — but sometimes hidden — features can help kids find the information they need much more efficiently than...
by rcrellin | May 22, 2014 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies
“Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.“ Mark Zuckerberg -Founder, Facebook Are you interested in coding with your students? ...
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...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 11, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, New technologies, Wellbeing
You can find full episodes on both iView and Vimeo of the TV show – Don’t blame Facebook http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/dont-blame-facebook/ There is something NQR about. But it might appeal to others. Would you use it as a teaching resource? Basically it...
