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Some free resource videos for Literacy. I particularly like the "When Two Vowels Go Walking" song.

Kalinda Primary School 1:1 ipad agreement form

At school our big focus on CBL and Inquiry Based Learning has led to conversations around how to scaffold and teach students skills relating to researching on the web. It's my opinion that Primary School students should not be left to do open searches Google - there is simply too much information to sort through. (This doesn't mean we don't teach them how and give them opportunities to practise, it just means we don't set them Challenges and let them 'go for it' on the open web) Instead, teachers need to find relevant websites for students to search for information from, and post them on their class Site or Blog. This limits the amount of information students need to search through, and guides their searches to appropriate websites for their reading level etc.

IN Australia, primary school teachers receive, on average, 17 hours of mandatory music education in their teacher education courses. In South Australia it is even less. In Finland it is 270 hours. What is 17 hours of music education supposed to achieve? One has to ask: Why bother?

All of the Macmillan publishers teacher notes and black line masters for the Springboard range of guided reading texts.

Suggested by Angela. A great resource with units and all sorts of fantastic stuff linking science with literacy

"Teachers have known forever that happy, engaged students are better learners - especially when it comes to tough material. And learning how to spell is so hard for many kids."

THis is our PD Site

"This is an assembly from CEOPs Thinkuknow education programme that helps children to understand what constitutes personal information. The assembly enables children to understand that they need to be just as protective of their personal information online, as they are in the real world. It also directs where to go and what to do if children are worried about any of the issues covered."

Great video of Piaget talking about his theory of how knowledge is constructed. Interesting swipe at Chomsky. I must look into it more.

3D Animation - Landing at Gallopolo