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Andrew Williamson

Need a Job? Invent It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • That is a tall task. I tracked Wagner down and asked him to elaborate. “Today,” he said via e-mail, “because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge. As one executive told me, ‘We can teach new hires the content, and we will have to because it continues to change, but we can’t teach them how to think — to ask the right questions — and to take initiative.’
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    WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he's "a translator between two hostile tribes" - the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner's argument in his book "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World" is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently "adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace."
Andrew Williamson

Real World Math - Home - 0 views

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    "Real World Math is a collection of free math activities for Google Earth designed for students and educators. Mathematics is much more than a set  of problems in a textbook.  In the virtual world of Google Earth, concepts and challenges can be presented in a meaningful way that portray the usefulness of the ideas."
Andrew Williamson

200 Free Or Discounted Apps For World Autism Awareness Day | Edudemic - 0 views

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    In honor of World Autism Awareness Day, some app developers are offering special discounts and in some cases even their apps for free, and iAutism compiled a list of all these apps (about 200!).
Andrew Williamson

art + soul (ABC TV) - 3 views

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    Hetti Perkins, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, shares her knowledge of - and passion for - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. As we criss-cross the land with her, meeting artists remote, rural and urban, she shares her insights and feelings about them and their extraordinary art. She encourages the artists to tell the stories behind their artworks. Her journey enhances our knowledge and appreciation of Aboriginal art, encourages us to see the world from an Aboriginal perspective and, ultimately, gives us a richer understanding of Aboriginal culture.
Andrew Williamson

Picture books - 0 views

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    Overview of the book 
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    The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Andrew Williamson

Jigsaw: for 8 -10 year olds - YouTube - 1 views

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    "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."
Andrew Williamson

How to Add A Google Translate Widget To Your Blog - The Edublogger - 0 views

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    If your blog is starting to draw an audience from overseas or you want to collaborate with other schools around the world, you'll want to find a way to translate your blog into multiple languages.
Andrew Williamson

K-12 Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    "ur FREE materials are designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. Use our interactive SCOPE & SEQUENCE to find the lessons that are just right for your classroom. These cross-curricular units spiral to address digital literacy and citizenship topics in an age-appropriate way. Browse by grade band or click a category to highlight lessons that address that topic."
Andrew Williamson

#GameOn: new Cybersmart short film launches nationally: Cybersmart - 0 views

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    "introduced by ABC3 presenter Kayne Tremills, the stories tackle topics including cyberbullying, excessive gaming, sharing passwords, free downloads and online friends. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications, Paul Fletcher, MP, has welcomed the release of #GameOn. 'In my conversations with teachers and parents, I am regularly told that they have to spend significant time in dealing with cyberbullying and disputes on social media,' Mr. Fletcher said. 'In line with the Australian government's commitment to enhance online safety for children, I commend #GameOn as a tool you can use with your children or students to raise awareness of online safety issues, and to help students navigate the online world safely and with confidence.'"
Andrew Williamson

First Take: Can Your Children "Design Their Own Professions?" - 0 views

  • Most schools, even “good” schools, are about getting our kids to “fit in” and “duplicate” what’s already been done. I look at the work my own kids bring home and see little if anything that allows them to stand out and invent. You? The bottom line is, once again, schools have little context for the world as it might become, especially when policy makers at state and national levels continue to reinforce a worldview of learning and work that is quickly being passed by.
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    The important issue here for us is not so much that change is occurring so quickly when it comes to the prospects of work for our kids. As technology evolves, there's no doubt that more and more traditional jobs are going to be replaced and new, different ones created. Whether you believe that's "progress" or not, it's hard to slow it down.
Andrew Williamson

Shaun Tan did not slip into the world of children's literature unnoticed - 0 views

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    Some interesting background information.
Joy O'Neill

FUSE Primary Resources - 0 views

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    3D Animation - Landing at Gallopolo
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