by Sandy Phillips | Mar 11, 2015 | Geography, Health Education
Seth Dixon is a Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geography, Rhode Island College and writer who recently published and article for National Geographic Education. In that article he presented his ten favourite resources including articles and videos about food and the...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 4, 2015 | Challenge, Science
Science concepts, ideas and questions and the capacity to get involved – every science enthusiasts’ dream. I can’t stop singing the Periodic Table song (6.7M of us cant be wrong!) but I am not doing it as well as a 4 year old who has submitted their...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 25, 2015 | Assessment, Creativity, Digital Literacy, Digital Pedagogy, Digital technology, Pedagogy, Professional Learning, Uncategorized
Created by Full Tilt Ahead would love to add “How are students going to show what to do with what they know?” (Bit of a mouthful!) I scooped this from Dennis T O’Conner and thought it was really worth discussing at a staff meeting along with any...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 29, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital technology, Gaming for learning
The Australian Curriculum presents the Digital Technologies curriculum. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 7, 2015 | Challenge, Mathematics
The Australian Maths Trust is one of the world’s largest school-based mathematics competitions with more than 14 million entries since 1978. This is a fun 30-problem competition with many of the problems set in situations which show the relevance of mathematics in...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 19, 2014 | Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Gaming for learning, Programming
Looking at the inclusion of Digital Technologies into the Victorian curriculum – AusVELS , it is worth having a look at some of the learning outcomes across the years and looking at some resources. Some of this if going to be new for some teachers It focuses on...
