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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

What should students do once they can read? - Richard Olsen's Blog - 1 views

  • 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”
  • 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.
  • We need to understand the new social world that both our students and our teachers live and learn in.
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  • A world where the experts are no longer in charge, a world where autonomous self-directed learners are skilled at co-constructing new knowledge in unknown and uncertain environments
  • A world where knowledge is complex and is changing.
  • Our students need to be immersed in the modern learning, made possible by modern technology and free of the compromises that up til now our education system has been based on.
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    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.
Andrew Williamson

Twelve Interesting Ways* to use an iPod Touch in the Classroom - 1 views

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      Grade 2 teachers and Khamal just email Tom to add your ideas. Even if you put in some of the games you have used. Just adding to the community. 
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    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
Andrew Williamson

Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students | Text... - 0 views

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    A great poster creator. Worth a look students can upload images and manipulate them to look like posters. Students can export out to blogs etc or print. Could be useful online tool for short presentations of student work. 
Khamal Sarkis

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos - 0 views

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    A great way to present photos on your blogs with audio commentary.
Andrew Williamson

Web 2.0 Tools to Embed on Your Blog | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom - 0 views

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    Great list of presentation tools that can be embedded into blogs. Through the HTML tab. 
Andrew Williamson

Civilization IV: Using Computer Gaming To Promote Student Engagement In Learning - 0 views

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    This is the google site that Peter and I put together as part of our VITTA presentation. It's got great examples of student work and planning documents etc worth bookmarking for future reference
kynan robinson

Using ICT In Project Based Learning - 1 views

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

: Netbooks, Notebooks, and Smartbooks - 0 views

  • I agree. I presented to a Board of Trustees meeting here in NZ last night about this. The BOT wanted to buy IWBs for each classroom - high-end ones at up to $7000 NZ a piece. I showed them some of the research and white papers and then showed them what they could buy as an alternative - being a lot of netbooks giving individual kids a load more power - be interesting to see what they do. One BOT member asked me if schools are now obsolete. My response was that schools are not obsolete but their walls are.
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      Quote for 1:1 as opposed to IWB
Andrew Williamson

Twelve Interesting Ways* to use an iPod Touch in the Classroom - 1 views

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    For those that are using ipod touch in the classroom
kynan robinson

the creative internet (106 things) - 1 views

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    creative stuff on the internet
Khamal Sarkis

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos - 0 views

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    This is a great tool for encouraging students and parents to comment and discuss as a group. With Voice Thread you are able to upload images and have students record an audio track over a slideshow. Then, once it's posted, members can post audio comments. You are also provided with an embed code to put into your blogs. Browse some of the examples and see how it works.
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