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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.

You think of technology as a tool," one high school student told me. "We think of it as a foundation; it underlies everything we do." As this comment shows, like it or not, technology has become foundational to both education and life. Educators should think of technology in the same way they've long viewed reading-as a key to thinking about and knowing about the world.

Prensky argues for a change in the way educators think about technology - as an extension to our brains.

A useful distinction between infographics and data vizualization.

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.

Some of the other resources I have come across since my last post that you might find useful are: Apptivities - A great website with reviews and activity ideas for the use of apps by educators organized by grade level. Math Apps - Top 10 Apps to use in Math class on the iPod Touch. Apps for Educators - Top 200 iPad Apps in the United States for Educators Digital Storytelling with the iPad 38 Interesting ways to use the iPad in the Classroom 28 Interesting ways to use the iPod Touch in the Classroom iPods, iPhones and iPads in Education Teach with your iPad The Best iPhone apps for Kids, 2010 50 Must Have Educational Apps iPod and iPad Usergroup Wiki

Gapminder World shows the World's most important trends Wealth & Health of Nations CO2 emissions since 1820 Africa is not a country! Is child mortality falling? Where is HIV decreasing?

The WebQuest was launched in 1995 to scaffold advanced cognition by integrating the "ill-structured" nature of the World Wide Web with a process that guides novices through decisions and experiences that characterize experts' behaviors. Recently, the Web has morphed into Web 2.0 with its social networking sites, blogs, wikis and podcasts. Given this richness, revisiting WebQuests is in order. This paper reviews the critical attributes of true WebQuests and reviews recent research in thinking routines and intrinsic motivation to recommend new paths for WebQuests that could scaffold student use of Web 2.0 environments, enabling a shift toward authentic personal learning.

Preparing and developing e-learning materials is a costly and time consuming enterprise. This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. We introduce six elements of design and discuss each in some detail. These elements focus on paying attention to the provision of a rich learning activity, situating this activity within an interesting story line, providing meaningful opportunities for student reflection and third party criticism, considering appropriate technologies for delivery, ensuring that the design is suitable for the context in which it will be used, and bearing in mind the personal, social, and environmental impact of the designed activities. Along the way, we describe how these design elements can be effectively utilized by contextualizing them with examples from an e-learning initiative.

This video has been created for Educational purposes and focuses on Numeracy. The video may be to be used to introduce the concept of Fractions in the Junior Primary classroom and as a motivating learning tool that engages your students with numeracy in the real world.

I have also added this video to WatchKnowLearn it can be viewed via this link: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=34068

This numeracy video was created for educational purposes and designed for students teachers and parents to use as a resource when teaching fractions in a junior primary setting. Our video aims to communicate the importance of numeracy as a life skill as it shows how numeracy can be used beyond the classroom. For example, real life situations such as baking a chocolate cake :)

This video could be used as part of numeracy learning experiences, either as a base to a numeracy lesson, lesson introduction, or lesson idea. It could also encorporate cross curricula links to subjects such as ICT and Home Economics!

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=34078 You could also check out the link on the 'WatchKnowLearn' website - a website where you can view hundreds of free educational videos!

Evaluation Rubric for iPod Apps