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There has been a growing buzz around a recently coined phrase " Flipped Classroom". This term starts to take root in education as more and more educators are discovering it. So what is this all about and what are its advantages in learning and teaching? ( Awesome Infographic included below )

Flipped Classroom depends a lot on educational technology and web 2.0 tools such as podcasting and screencasting applications.

Get the iphone apps for The Australian Curriculum and the National Professional Standards for Teachers.

The online curriculum and standards for teachers goes mobile!

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.

Articles from Europe related to eLearning.

Some very interesting web 2.0 articles here.

Required core reading

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.

"Abstract: This paper explores how personal web technologies (PWTs) can be used by learners and the relationship between PWTs and connectivist learning principles. Descriptions and applications of several technologies including social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, and aggregators are also included. With these tools, individuals can create and manage personal learning environments (PLEs) and personal learning networks (PLNs), which have the potential to become powerful resources for academic, professional, and personal development. "

Core Reading

The Horizon Report > 2010 Australia-New Zealand Edition is the third in the series to focus on the impact of emerging technologies on post-secondary education in Australia and New Zealand.

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.

Ultimately, the label "Web 2.0" is far less important than the concepts, projects, and practices included in its scope.

This article is useful to learn about Web 2.0.

An interesting article about some issues related to the personalisation of the internet.

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