by Sandy Phillips | Jul 27, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital technology
How do we teach young children about social media? There is no one way, as the teachers who are using Global2 know. A New York teacher Jennifer Aaron tweets with her very young students at PS 150. “We tweet as a whole class three times a week,”she told the New York...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 20, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Programming
A terrific article by Kira DeVaul featured in Common Sense Media’s summer edition (for the US and Europe) presents some great options for teachers to use in their classrooms and give to their students to explore around coding. She has organised these into three...
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 | 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 | Jun 26, 2015 | Class Activities, music
Even if you have only one iPad there are still lots of ways you can use it with your students, especially if you can plug it into a data projector and speakers. Midnight Music have presented 18 practical ideas for teachers. Go to teh link for the full list of ideas....
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 18, 2015 | Arts, Class Activities, Curriculum
The Artists in Schools project funding is available to schools for 2015. Information sessions are being held across Victoria and online. Details here – http://www.creative.vic.gov.au/AIS Applications for the Artists in Schools funding program are due Tuesday 8...
