I learned that a Google search will now yield results by reading level. We can check out search results that are designated either basic, intermediate or advanced.
As you can imagine, conspiracy theories abound. The department lost its previous Mac loving secretary with the change of government, and many worry that the department techs, who have always tried to pretend Macs just don’t exist, are now having their way and trying to push them out of the system altogether.
But after a change to a conservative government that has a very poor track record when it comes to supporting public education, Victorian teachers are slowly awakening to a very different landscape. Perhaps the most rude awakening has occurred by way of the latest notebook lease offer from DEECD.
"I was in a staff meeting at school last week where we were given a presentation outlining 10 common myths about copyright. I thought it not a bad summary of what many teachers just assume to be true. Ironically, I'm reproducing it below basically word for word as it was presented to me, but I'm told on good authority that the original creator has authorised its use for reposting."
"In order to make it on this list, games had to: * be accessible to English Language Learners. * provide exceptionally engaging content, * not provide access to other non-educational games on their site, though there is one on this list that doesn't quite meet this particular criteria. * be seen by me during the second part of 2015. So they might have been around prior to this time, but I'm still counting them in this year's list."