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Abstract AER 56 explores national and international policy priorities for building students' innovation capabilities through information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. Section 1 sets out the Australian policy context for digital education and highlights some of the emerging challenges. It provides an overview of two Australian school education policy priorities: that of how to meaningfully include technologies into teaching and learning; and how to build innovation capabilities in students. Section 2 critically examines the education and economic policy contexts for digital education in Australia, their intersections with international economic priorities, and the role of commercial technologies markets in schools. Section 3 discusses those Australian education policy priorities that focus on how students build both their discipline-based knowledge and general capabilities, such as creativity and innovation, using technologies. Section 4 provides some insights into how students currently use technologies for learning and communicating with each other inside and outside of school, and reflects upon what are the implications of these practices for students and policy implementation in schools. In Section 5 the discussion focuses on the physical and human characteristics required by all stakeholders to enable learning with technologies in 21st century schools. Section 6 challenges existing policy approaches to technology-use in schools, and argues for more open approaches to the deployment and use of technologies and digital resources in schools.

Section 4 of this reference is a required core reading.

"I would argue the classroom twenty years from now will be a space reconfigured and repurposed for different needs," he said. "No more 'tablet armchairs.' The classrooms may look more like living rooms. We're going to see classrooms moving away from lectures to a more collaborative environment, heavy on group projects. I could see a student's tools all contained on one device, sharing wirelessly on a common screen or with each other, device-to-device, and much more web-based." The devices they use will also continue to shrink. Students are already showing a preference for tablets and web-books over laptops. "The social web has enforced a powerful notion of collaborative knowledge creation," Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor at Virginia's University of Mary Washington told Ars. "How can a classroom in this moment ignore the shape of the web?" he asked. His university is planning a pilot program to give 900 new students not just their own blogs, but a complete domain and space in which they will work, archive, sandbox, rant and play, and over which they have complete control.

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Web 2.0 is a loosely defined intersection of web application features that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web 1 applications, mashups and folksonomies.

A good place to learn about web 2.0 and web 3.0.

Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age.

This is the link to the week 5 reading (part 2).

Informed by an extensive international and national research base, the Contemporary Learning Schema represents the findings from a research partnership between CEOM and twenty-five primary and secondary schools involved in the Contemporary Learning Research Schools Project and the Leading for Contemporary Learning Project, over a three year period 2006-2008. The purpose of the Contemporary Learning Schema is to assist leaders and teachers to reflect on their work and to stimulate dialogue around teaching practice and student learning within the context of their school. The schema provides a platform from which a shared language and way of thinking about teaching and learning can be developed within a school community and ultimately across all schools within the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.

"Anatomy of a PLE"

The most difficult step on the journey towards innovation is the first one. Where do we start? Many questions and concerns are immediately obvious to you, mostly to do with constraints of finance, curriculum, professional practice and possibly the expectations of parents. However, the biggest risk of all is to take no risk at all.

Wednesday, December 07, 2011 More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years - all driven by 10 technology innovations Pedagogy - one of those words that's used when people want to sound all academic. So let's just call it learning practice. Of one thing we can be sure; teaching does not seem to have changed much in the last 100 years. In our Universities, given the stubborn addiction to lectures, it has barely changed in 1000 years. So what's the real source of pedagogic change?

This may be useful to consider when planning your photostory :-)

This article summarises the paper "The Impact of ICT on Education: the three opposed paradigms, the lacking discourse", written by Roni Aviram and Deborah Talmi.

A list of popular Web 2.0 teaching tools. These teacher resources are some of the best online tools for teaching and learning.

Don't confuse a literature review with writing an annotated bibliography!

Even with all of the benefits of technology in the classroom, however, educators must use caution to ensure that students are focusing on the lesson and not giving in to distractions. Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology:

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"Dubbed 'Search Education,'Google's new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google."

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"Reading and writing is a core skill that pervades all other school subjects. With the focus we see on STEM-related products, it is good to see so many emerging products with their sights on literacy too. Here are a handful of notable tools for literacy education."

You've got every device under the sun in front of you. Now what apps are you going to use? Here are the apps or app categories that I recommend you test for your school. There are lots of apps, and these are just my opinion based on what I've used with my students or successfully tested.

This is currently the top ranked educational technology journal. I have highlighted text on this page as an example of what you can bookmark for others to see using a private bookmark.

This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format. I personally enjoy the part about connectivism in the digital age.

For educators, who are used to and use the didactic model, a framework is needed to assist them with the implementation of the Flipped Classroom. In other words, the message to teachers to do what they want during classroom is not enough to make this transition.