Literacy with ICT

Welcome to the second edition of the AifL Self-Assessment Toolkit for schools. This resource aims to help practitioners understand the scope of the AifL key features and implement them into their teaching practice.

People do NOT remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they see, 30% of what they hear, etc. That information, and similar pronouncements are fraudulent. Moreover, general statements on the effectiveness of learning methods are not credible---learning results depend on too many variables to enable such precision. Unfortunately, this bogus information has been floating around our field for decades, crafted by many different authors and presented in many different configurations, including bastardizations of Dale's Cone. The rest of this article offers more detail.

The cultures of Africa, Aztec, China, Egypt, Greece, Mayan, Mesopotamia, Rome, Olmec, Prehistory, Middle Ages and World War II are divided into categories of Art, Biographies, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research and more

Wikis in the Classroom presentation wiki.

The World's Biggest Show and Tell

Welcome to Bullying UK's new website for primary schools

Great short 8:30 minute presentaiton on podcasting!

A great blog post that every teacher and adminsitrator should read before the school year starts!

The paper presents and questions the main claims made about digital natives and analyses the nature of the debate itself. We argue that rather than being empirically and theoretically informed, the debate can be likened to an academic form of a 'moral panic'. We propose that a more measured and disinterested approach is now required to investigate 'digital natives' and their implications for education.

A series of YouTube video lectures on how to structure paragraphs for university assignments from Massey University.

Jott will now cost you for the service you've come to enjoy.

Use your voice, email, instant messaging, or text messaging. No other memory tool makes it as easy to capture, retrieve, and share ideas and things you need to do-anywhere, anytime.

Podcasting with your cellphone, computer or digital recorder from an English teachers point of view.

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Look at the news as a bunch of pushpins on a world map.

Look at the news/events on a timeline. Pretty cool.