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An essay I wrote inquiring into the notion of everyday creativity and its significance in its application in the education context. If you have time and are interested... :-)

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

Simple but effective discussion about what is student centred learning. 

Educating for thinking is essential for fostering creative thoughts imagination is part of that. Metacognition is part of the minds eye

A great website for composing music. Good for maths too as you have to focus on using thirds, quarters, etc. 

Why do we bother... What I mean by this is... Dah!

I need to be reminded sometimes... I'm a softy ;) Oh, they forgot one of the most important aspects re classroom management. Learning and engagement. 

The title says it all and it make sense. 

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

Another paper questioning connectivist claims that it is a learning theory.  "It seems that here, thrown away false modesty, connectivism is putting forward its candidacy to represent a new paradigm, even if this application is not supplied with a consistent reference theoretical frame."

For or against connectivism as a learning theory. Some interesting points here. 

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.

The Maths Arcade section of this website has some really fun games for students from P-6. They can choose their level and select a game to practice their maths skills independent. 

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cool for early years counting by 2s

Maths activities and lessons for upper primary...especially extension activities!!!

tips and tools  to manage group projects

Here is the website Linda R just emailed us. Check it out!