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Aaron Davis

10 steps technology directors can take to stay relevant SmartBlogs - 0 views

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    Great list from Tom Murray associated with being a 'technology director'.
Aaron Davis

Digichild | Early Childhood Australia - 0 views

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    Dan Donahoo on technology in early childhood. Interesting reflections.
Aaron Davis

The Sky's the Limit: 16 Must-Read Quotes from Michael Fullan's Stratosphere - Vander Ar... - 0 views

  • We should do less of spending money on assessment detached from designing learning and more of creating learning experiences that are irresistibly engaging."
  • "The integration of technology and pedagogy to maximize learning must meet four criteria. It must be irresistibly engaging; elegantly efficient (challenging but easy to use); technologically ubiquitous; and steeped in real-life problem solving."
  • "I hold out four criteria for integrating technology and pedagogy to produce exciting, innovative learning experiences for all students --something desperately needed to bring education into the 21st century. These new developments must be i) irresistibly engaging (for students and for teachers); ii) elegantly efficient and easy to use; iii) technologically ubiquitous 24/7; and iv) steeped in real-life problem solving."
Aaron Davis

Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling - ART & SCIENCE - Medium - 0 views

  • It’s not the technology that entertains people, it’s what you do with the technology.
  • No matter the length of your film — 30 seconds, five minutes, 22 minutes, feature length — it needs a story. It needs a beginning, a middle and an end.It needs to deeply connect with people.
  • Get it up there. Throw it up there as fast as you can, talk about it, tear it back down, put it back up there. Keep doing this.
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  • If you create characters people connect with and tell stories that deeply entertain and move them, the audience will come.
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    A great discussion of films and storytelling from one of the key figures behind Pixar.
Aaron Davis

Opening Learning to Parents | Digital Learning News - 0 views

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    Interesting post on some of the ways in which technology can be used to further engage with the wider community, especially those who are often unable to make it to events etc ... such as videoing information evenings and school assemblies.
Aaron Davis

Resources from Miami Device - Learning in Hand - 0 views

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    A fantastic collection of resources associated with technology from Miami Device
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Great Research Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    An interesting list of tools for doing research online.
Aaron Davis

2015 Prep-8 iPad App Lists | iPads 4 Learning @ MLP12C - 0 views

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    A great list of apps for primary education from Corrie Barclay
Aaron Davis

A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world - Quartz - 0 views

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    Are you reading this on a handheld device? There's a good chance you are. Now imagine how'd you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being ignored? As we are sucked in ever more by the screens we carry around, even in the company of friends and family, the hunched...
Aaron Davis

Social media cheat sheet - super speedy, all you needy | The Pink Group - 0 views

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    A good introduction to the different social media formats, including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram. Induces discussion of what each provides.
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A safer Internet? - 0 views

  • Parents are encouraged to talk more to their children about their use of technology, and discuss with them the risks and potential dangers. Finding out what sites children visit online, who they talk with and what they talk about is useful information to help parents decide how to manage access to the Web.
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    An interesting post from Steve Wheeler associated with 'Safer Internet Day' and how we can help children today.
Aaron Davis

Google Apps For Education - What is it (good for)? | ReconfigurEd. - 0 views

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    An awesome introduction into Google Apps for Education from Anthony Speranza, which includes a really good presentation. Covers everything.
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Top 100 Tools for Learning (2013) - 1 views

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    Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 -  the results of the 7th Annual Learning Tools Survey. Not only is it an interesting list, but a great place to start to look for new ideas and programs.
Aaron Davis

Free Technology for Teachers: A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - 0 views

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    A look at Creative Commons and Fair Use in media and blogging. An often ignored element when it comes to online publishing. Also includes some good links to sites containing free-to-use images.
Aaron Davis

A Handy Dropbox Cheat Sheet for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud based platforms for hosting and sharing files. Like Google Drive, Dropbox offers a decent free storage space to start with and there is also the possibility to buy more storage capacity. Unless it is a Google doc or presentation, I always save my PDFs and other documents to Dropbox. What I like the most about this tool is its syncing capacities which are way faster than Google Drive. You can upload a PDF on your desktop and access it instantly on your Dropbox account  in iPad.
Aaron Davis

Twitter EDU - David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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    A fantastic how-to for Twitter, a great introduction for those who are too afraid to dip in.
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