ICT in Primary Education

This is full of great information about IT in schools.

If you have used a sticky note you can relate to the concept of Padlet. It is a great tool for students to collaborate and share information. You can post all kinds of digital content on the wall to share ideas or brainstorm.

I have just mentored a group through their PYP exhibition, if I had known of Padlet then it would have been great. Thanks for the idea, excellent tool for collaboration.

Yes I also love using 'Padlet'. It's so versatile and effective. We will be using this tool later on in our MOOC "ICT in Primary Education.

i found this website with songs linked to some of the topics we teach - the kids were loving it! There are songs linked to loads of different topics.

This site has interactive games for free or for a small subscription. It is good support for parents in understanding how phonics is taught and the students can engage in activities independently at home.

Enjoy these fun grammar games for kids. Find a range of free interactive exercises and practice activities that are perfect for helping students learn English.

Thank you very much. Very useful page!

Children take their first critical steps toward learning to read and write very early in life. The role of teachers in this process is of critical importance. Plain teaching can be easily enriched with a touch of online free educational tools that can make them more attractive to young learners.

Graphite is a free service from Common Sense Media that makes it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for classroom use. Tools like Edmodo, Educreations, ClassDojo, and Socrative have been thoroughly reviewed by our expert educators and received numerous teacher reviews we call Field Notes.

I think this resourse will also be useful for teachers of primary schools

I use this a lot especially the Murder Mysteries in the maths section.

This website is great. I use it especially for maths activities.

I use this resource in my teaching. It's great especially for maths games to consolidate learning.

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.