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Andrew Williamson

Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best | Edutopia - 0 views

  • "Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.
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    "Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.
Con Rigopoulos

Skratch Publishing - 0 views

  • Skratch Publishing is a Social Venture in Reading
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    Skratch is a simple program for children to use and track what books they have finished reading online.
kynan robinson

How Computer Games Help Children Learn | MindShift - 0 views

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    How computer games help kids learn
Andrew Williamson

Fiction 10-14 « Bill Boyd - The Literacy Adviser - 1 views

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    Great post for level 3 to 4. A list of contempory books for children 8 years+ This would be very useful for students and teachers.
Kristen Swenson

The Book Gryffin - 0 views

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    Shows great examples of how children have created book trailers (like a movie trailer)! 
Andrew Williamson

LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY - 1 views

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    This would be a great IWB morning starter as the children walk into the room. They could silently read through as you are doing the roll and lunch orders. One child could be the controller.
Andrew Williamson

FAPSA - Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations Past co... - 2 views

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    Thoughtful Classroom: Teaching to overcome educational disadvantage  conference notes from presenters. This was a great conference with some amazing ideas. A couple of the presenters have shared there presentations here. 
Andrew Williamson

10 Google Forms for the Classroom | ICT in my Classroom - 0 views

  • For your weekly spelling test use simple 1-10 or 1-20 numbered form (with a name question too of course) and ask the children to type in their answers as you read out the list of words. Once these are submitted apply formula to judge if they are correct or not and it becomes self marking.
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      If we had a 1:1 program and we used Google forms our data collection and analysis would become very efficient.
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    Another useful post by one of my favourite Edubloggers. This guy just keeps on keeping on! This post is about google forms and how they can be used in the classroom. I used Google forms to create the staff survey on the 1:1 program. Imagine the students using this for the end of the week spelling test or maths diagnostics or any of these data collecting excersises completed using google forms and then instantly sent to a spread sheet.
Rebecca Martin

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics - 0 views

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    Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).
Andrew Williamson

Funny poetry for children - 1 views

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    This looks like it could be loads of fun
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    Should be some useful stuff here
Andrew Williamson

The Children Must Play - 0 views

  • four to eleven periods each week taking classes in art, music, cooking, carpentry, metalwork, and textiles. These classes provide natural venues for learning math and science, nurture critical cooperative skills, and implicitly cultivate respect for people who make their living working with their hands.
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    This is a great article outlining the success of the Finnish education system. They don't standardise test, they don't track or target teach, they have smaller class sizes, train, educate and pay their teachers better. Dah!! That's why they top the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results. What's happening in Australia???
Kristen Swenson

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 0 views

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    An alternative to big books for the early years 
Andrew Williamson

Movie Making and literacy skills | illegal harmonies - 0 views

  • But beyond that againg there is the ideas of student centered learning. The kids are creating personal, meanigful things not another task set by the teacher. The teacher is acting merely as the facilitator, guiding the learning to a deeper place. The ownership of the product gives the students motivation and a greater sense of enjoyment which always enhances learning. In my role as teacher for this project I introduced the idea, showed them some simple concepts and ten basically handed it over to them, always assisting when needed and giving guidance when appropriate
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      Great pedagogical practice. Student centred learning is what facilitates engagement, enjoyment and a deeper understanding of the content.
  • Creative expression is one of if not the most iportant part of life.  Humans have a desire to create and if we can use ICT to better enable children to do that while effectivly communicating their creations to others than that is fantastic.
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      This is the essence of what teaching is about. Facilitating student creativity allowing them to decide what to create how to create it and when to create it. The teacher is merely the director pointing the student towards different paths but essentially allowing them to choose.
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    Awesome blog post on Movie making and literacy skills. Some great pedagogy happening with this group of students. I really like Kynan's philosophy of letting the students learn rather than intervening with teacher direction. Final cut express is a rather complicated piece of software but it looks like these kids have eaten it for breakfast
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