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Hi Renata, I´ve started the same course that you!! I´m excited about that, and I hope we can learn and share a lot of ideas with other mates.

I have started the course also. I hope it will help with the better integration of iCT into my class programme.

I have joined ICT today. Am quite excited about learning new ideas which we can adopt in our preschool. I will also share some of our learnings over the next few weeks!

http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214720.pdf, very comprehensive material. Nice to read.

Just started an ICT course from Coursera. It has made me jump from one exciting resource link to another before I could even finish the first activity! Absolutely loving it! I look forward to testing some of the ideas with my 6 yr old who is quite excited about technology. And as a parent I feel good if that gadget time is put to good use.

5th week already. A good experience so far. Comprehensive materials indeed.

I have also started the ICT course from Coursera. I'm willing to see all of your proposals on materials, web pages, programs, etc., and I'm hoping to share some ideas with you too.

Hi group, I enrolled today in this course and I have high expectations. I am excited to read your comments. I look forward to share thoughts with you.

Hi from me too, I enrolled also in this course and I hope it will help me with the better understanding of ICT. I hope we can share a lot of ideas and thoughts.

Good evening - at least it is evening where i live- I enrolled this course today and hope we can do our best.

Hello to all! I have been absent from the field of primary education for some time and feel the need to update myself in new knowledge and new ideas, in such a fast paced world. I hope this course helps me!

Hi, Our school is starting it's third week of Online curriculum, after the government has closed schools. Using Google Classroom has been interesting. Too much screen time for some pupils - headaches for my wife and I looking at screens without adequate breaks. I am looking forward to the course.

Hi, I'm a casual/supply teacher and looking forward to the course.

it is necessery ICT in Education.coursea is necessary

Hi all, I enrolled today in this course and I am thoroughly looking forward to learning a lot from you. I can wait to read and share with you.

Hi!!!I enrolled this course and i am very excited about all the new interesting thing that I am learning. I am looking forward for more!!!

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Hello! interesting experience! glad that together with you

I never thought of it this way. It's a great concept. We need to understand that design is not about beauty, but about vision, about following a process and always trying to make a dent. And of course, this will only be achieved by the use of crowd wisdom and the sharing process.

Teaching by design is an interesting way to contemplate the way we teach. I suppose, I am always designing bridges to each and everyone of my students. One student understands the concept given in a traditional manner while the other needs to walk up the hill and see it from afar. Either way I have to figure out how to get my student to understand.

True......even i did not think of it this way!!yes even i now think teaching is now a design science. With technology changing every day, we as teachers will have to think of new ways to use the new tools and as individual isolated teachers we wont be able to keep pace and do justice so we all will have to share and work collaboratively to design innovative ways to teach effectively.

Dear Diana, I can't agree more on your proposals. In fact the peer2peer learning that we propose and expect from children in class has to become a MUST between teachers. I am not a teacher but I have experienced hoy there is Little sharing between teachers of same "level" of education in same school, almost NO dialog between those of different levels, and scarcely any between other teachers. How to rebuild this communication is crutial, and not only between heads and teachers but also upon other school staff, which sometimes get more information about each child environment and learning attitude than teachers or tutors themselves because they do see students in "non directed" situations react to real life problems.

You are so right. One thing I like about the school I work with is the enthusiasm some teachers have for finding new tools. Some of us work collaboratively and it makes a real difference. Unfortunately this is not the case with the whole school, but I believe there will come a time when this will be the only way to work. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for Diana for your thought inspiring article. I think that the teachers who understand and master this 'design science' are really going to use ICT to leverage their teaching and their students learning. Institutes will probably need mature 'innovators' to drive the concept of 'design scientists' forward. In addition i believe we will also need a 'design artist' to create a ICT learning culture within the organization too.

Thank you for sharing as a new person to the Teaching Profession I found collaborating efforts have worked really well for me and I am always willing to learn from others and share my ideas with them to get their input and it have proven fruitful. Working as a team and sharing with others to get a different point of view is always important.

Amazing! I love it. I'll definitely try it.

Thank you. I have created my own WebQuest! Yessssssssss!

This is a great tool to use. My kids really enjoy it. When we were doing the PYP Exhibition 25 out of the 27 children in my class chose to do their reflections on padlet, so much easier to mark than taking 27 books home.

Like it, easy for children to create their own, as you suggest, book cover. Technology in kids hands should evoke creativity and not only be a means of media consumption.

A very useful tool. Can be used for creative designing.

We can practice adjectives, nouns , verbs, adverbs. We can make them to create Noun Cloud. :) That would be awesome. It motivates children to create some very personalize. They would chose the shapes for their group of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, etc.

Which is a good software to help students (4-5 yrs) prepare a simple slideshow or arrange pictures in a logical sequence (eg. transformation of a butterfly from egg to adult)?

There are a lot of different ways of using word clouds as far as EFL is concerned. You name it: 1) predict the content of a text e.g. topics, style, purpose, etc. 2) writing or speaking prompts 3) reading comprehension questions just, then comparing answers after reading the actual text 4) summarise a presentation 5) identify or create the key words to a text 6) expanding vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or brainstorm words associated with a new one, match parts of collocations) 7) explore a topic (students add own ideas to a question stimulus & build a cloud) 8) student ice-breaker 9) highlight examples of misspelled or overused words in student writing by inputting their own work 10) 'grammar game' e.g. students classify words from a cloud into different parts of speech or different tenses 11) 'sentence structure' game e.g. input a complex sentence or short series of sentences into a word cloud, and have students reconstruct them in the correct word order 12) 'memory game' e.g. show a word cloud, take it off the screen, students write as many words as they can recall 13) identify parts of speech (students highlight or underline in different colours) 14) Students pre-assessing their own knowledge and understanding - "What does something mean to me?" as in a KWL chart

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I have seen these in classrooms. They definitely seem to help the students.