ICT in Primary Education

This website, hosted by the Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, is designed to be a central point of access to the wide range of research, projects, and other resources related to the use of mobile technologies in learning environments.

Google Earth has many great uses that we can apply and make our lessons transcurricular.

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals - architects, engineers, town planners, programmers - teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. But teaching is not treated as a design profession. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their learners. But their discoveries remain local. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively. Teacher professional development has not embedded in the teacher's everyday role the idea that they could discover something worth communicating to other teachers, or build on each others' ideas. Could the culture change? From this unique perspective on the nature of teaching, Diana Laurillard argues that a 21st century education system needs teachers who work collaboratively to design effective and innovative teaching.

In my opinion the most important thing is -given teaching will be treated as a collective design science- learning about how to apply new ways of teaching on our individual children. The newest would probably not always be the best and what worked in other schools elsewhere might not work in your own school. So let´s also stress how to individualize collective knowledge again and break it down to everyday usable teaching aid that we can evaluate.

I totally agree with your opinion about education, specially when you talk about collaborative work among teachers to help our students build knowledge .THank you

A great site to get started with programming! Lots of resources!

We cannot take for granted that teachers are confident with technology. This reality is present in Maltese schools. Teachers need help and support and they prefer to ask their peers for help instead of the authorities.

Repositorio Educativo de la Comunidad Educativa Española Agrega 2 is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es and Spain's regional governments. The federation of educational digital object repositories Agrega is a platform with nodes in all regional government education departments. The educational content which can be found therein is organised around the curriculum covering pre-university education and is prepared for downloading and direct use by the teaching staff and the students.

This is a great website which explores the amazing range of digital tools that are available to tell a story. Have a look! I am sure you will find something new you can use in the classroom to encourage children to tell stories.

Thank you for sharing! I'm interested in digital storytelling so it's a very good resource for me.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.Every MP3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.

Education.com provides activities, worksheets, videos, expert advice and a school directory to give parents information and ideas to help kids reach their full potential and make learning fun.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

I love the articles they provide on digital citizenship.

I really like the digital passport resources - I wonder if anyone knows about a similar resource a digital passport for teachers??

You'll probably love it :) Join the worldwide community of educators who are passionate about ensuring learners are prepared to thrive in the global economy.

Yeah indeed it is among the great resources an educator can find.

In this webpage you will find activities for the different integrated skills to develop when you're acquiring a Second or Foreing language. It works primarily as a database for software or other webpages to carry out activities related to SLA/FLA. Hope you like it!

Eyes on the Solar System is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time.

Futurelab at NFER is (registered charity number 313392) is committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. We achieve this through a mixture of research, workshops, CPD, training, courses, inset days, events, school development (through our enquiring schools programme), and resources across the UK and internationally.

This is where I go for my digital citizenship curriculum which I run K-6 every year. It's a must for every school.