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"As a parent, you can play an important role in helping your children have safe and positive experiences online. By becoming aware of how children and young people use the internet, some of the risks they face and strategies to manage these risks, you can help guide your children to enjoy the best of the online world. This section includes information, tips and advice to help you and your family make the most of being online."

If I had thirty iPads in my class, what would I do with them? How would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better? Perhaps a better question is what would I do with them that I could not do with other tools that are available and cheaper?

Banking on Numeracy. This video helps children understand the concept of money and its value. It explains that the size of the coins doesn't relate to their value. It helps students understand that you can make up $1 in many different ways and shows them how it relates back to everyday life. Year Level:1/2

" Trying to find helpful information regarding appropriate use of the Internet by children can be a challenge for parents and educators. One helpful site is NetSmartz, www.netsmartz.org, which was created by a partnership of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The following information is from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Following are some online safety tips to share with your children;"

This is part of Edudemic's Staying Safe Online series. We will be periodically publishing guides and helpful bits of information to keep you thinking about how to stay safe among all those bits and bytes.

So you finally got a class set of iPads and you are not sure what to do next and where to start? Here is a very simple list of tried and true tips to help.

Great advice on using iPads in the classroom.

The purpose of the blog is to help support primary teachers within Falkirk primary schools in their use of ICT across teaching and learning. This blog has lots of valuable links to support science inquiry in primary schools.

This blog has lots of valuable links to support science inquiry in primary schools.

So you've heard someone talking about QR codes? Or you've spotted these strangely-patterned black and white squares appearing in advertising material? Or you know what they are but just want to see how you can best make use of them? Well here are resources which will help to explain what QR codes are, what they look like, how you can create them, as well as how others are using them both within and outwith the classroom.

QR codes are an engaging way for students to explore information and express their learning.

"To make education relevant to students' lives and truly prepare kids for the future, we need to bring these after-school attractions into our schools. Four important practices can help. "

I've always liked Inspiration and Kidspiration for quick, easy to use ways of brainstorming. But with a $900 price tag for a 20 computer license, there just didn't seem to be any reason to pay that money when there are several robust, free alternatives. In the past couple of years, these alternatives have come close to matching, and in many aspects, surpassing what Inspiration and Kidspiration can do to help students organize their thoughts. Here are my three favs, with a few honorable mentions thrown in to boot.

The art of making information beautiful. How do you make statistics look interesting? According to the writer and designer David McCandless, you just need to apply the rules of visual design to information. David Sillito meets him and investigates the trend of applying the rules of visual design to information in order to help us cope with the oceans of data we are bombarded with.

In considering the impact of Web 2.0 on education, not only can the Web more efficiently deliver content, but now it also enables social interaction and more sophisticated representations of "truth." ... The CEQALL model (pronounced "seek-all") helps students find meaning in their lives and the world by engaging in deep, personally-relevant learning. By eventually internalizing the model's research-based approaches, students can build a life of self-initiated learning and contributions. Let's see how the model works.

The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes(a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century.

Lots of video tutorials to help you use Windows Movie Maker Live (Windows 7).

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

Teaching with Infographics: Places to Start

The video provides good background for teachers about the function of infographics to focus attention on the aspects that authors consider important in a space efficient manner.

A useful website that reflects on the Australian curriculum, ICT use in the classroom and TPACK.

Thanks Ayako. Very interesting indeed.

Thanks for sharing Ayako! I've only had a quick look at this resource, but it looks like it could be very helpful - particularly some of the lesson ideas which work in with the TPACK model and clearly highlight how the outcomes of the Australian Curriculum are being met.

This page provides a breakdown of videos within the Technology Integration Matrix by grade level. Although you may be primarily interested in a particular level, we encourage you to view the ways in which technology is used in other grade levels. For example, you will find videos of high school classrooms in which the technology tools could be used in the same way with middle school or elementary level students. Some videos involve students from both middle and high school grades and some involve students from both middle and elementary grades. These videos appear in both lists below.

I found the TIM framework a really useful way to think about how to integrate technology into my daily instructional practices. Having an understanding of where I sit in relation to the ACOT levels of Technology model helped to to recognise how far i've come in relation to my own understandings of how to use technologies effectively, but also how much opportunity there is far me to expand my knowledge.

The numeracy fairy helps to solve a problem.

An educational video displaying practical applications of division, presented in a novel situation.