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Great list of tools for creative thinking. Tools for creating ideas. From the usual suspects like brainstorming and mind mapping through to less discussed notions like incubation and morphological analysis. 

Some great ideas here for connecting Math to real world occurrences. It is heavily American but this site could be a source of great ideas for the student that needs extending

Such great ideas about blogging - practical and useful ideas 

Some helpful ideas and resources for multiplication

This is our Italian blog at North Fitzroy Primary school in Victoria Australia. It has information about activities taught, important dates and ideas for incidental teaching in the classroom. Please leave a post! Arrivederci!

For Grade 2 teachers and Khamal, you might want to add somethings to this. Just email Tom Barret if you want to contribute. He has many of these 'interesting ways' presentations. Great source of classroom ideas

This looks like a great interactive science site. Some great ideas here for science rich tasks. Plenty of activities. 

Wow what a cool idea. You could do this in the Lab. Would be great if we had a 1:1 program. Independent self-analysis of visual, audio or written text. Very easy to create a google form. All students who have access to our email system can do this

Some ideas around why we created @motmedu Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.

Some interesting ideas for using qr codes.

Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there's a good chance you're not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

Great ideas on how to use ICT in Project Based Learning Tasks

How to write a good project great blog with lots of ideas

lots of ideas and how to's for Project based learning

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. 

Google site I created for Early Years PD some useful links and pedagogical ideas etc. 

Blog post with ideas about keeping students moving during Project Based tasks and encouraging students to collaborate and share 

Some amazing ideas for whole staff day PD. Lot of creativity being stimulated here. Incubation, incubation, incubation. 

As games, particularly virtual worlds, become increasingly popular and as they begin to approximate large scale social systems in size and nature, they have also become spaces where play and learning have merged in fundamental ways. More important is the idea that the kind of learning that happens in the spaces of these massively multiplayer online games is fundamentally different than what we have come to consider as standard pedagogical practice. The distinction the authors make is that traditional paradigms of instruction have addressed learning as "learning about," while these new forms of learning deal with knowledge through the dynamic of "learning to be." It is the authors' contention that the experiences offered within virtual worlds provide a fundamentally different way of thinking about

Looking at the New Directions for school leadership and the teaching profession discussion paper, the only evidence presented to support the assertion that Victoria's education outcomes are not improving is the report "Challenges in Australian Education: results from PISA 2009: the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy" Specifically the New Directions paper focuses on reading literacy, where in 2009, 14,251 students were given a two-hour pen and paper comprehension test. To get an idea of what types of competencies the reading test is assessing we can look at the sample test , with questions range from comprehension about a letter in a newspaper, the ability to interpret a receipt, comprehension around a short story, an informational text, and interpreting a table. While it doesn't seem unreasonable to want our students to be able to accurately perform these kind of tasks, these tests are not a true or accurate representation of the skills and competencies our students need in today's technology driven world.