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This is a very informative article about the benefits of iPads in early years. As many schools are now considering their use it is a timely article

The blog of an American Substitute teacher.

This is a great site to have as a regular one that you should visit. It ranks the top 100 teacher blogs and updates them daily so that you can quickly go to the best!

A early childhood blog that share photos and stories about teaching, learning, creating, document design. This blog has great ideas for different teaching resources.

I came across this page today while searching for some teachers. They also have a store on the "Teachers pay teachers" website/store and i love all the displays and other things they have.. will definitly be looking at their store when I'm doing up my resources

I founds this blog that seems really interesting with loads of great resources for early childhood educators!

This a great article that relates to 'new pedagogies' in the classroom, and gives some really interesting perspective on why ICTs are so valuable. It includes some fab infographics etc as well.

Not sure if retired teachers count but for Early Childhood, Kate has some great activities for children and recipes that you can make and file under 'science and maths learning' (hello measuring and counting) 

This blog is written by an Australian primary school teacher. The blog consists of advice, tips, tricks and resources on how to organise the classroom, organise yourself and lesson ideas. This blog also features some ICT ideas for the classroom.

Rebecca Davies writes an excellent blog regarding the ICT 'Plickers' - an alternative way to deliver and record quizzes.

I have found this website and the accompanying facebook page to be overall quite good for finding resources or just generally being pointed in the right direction. I would love to hear what people think about it.

An insightful and sometimes humorous blog of a former Biology/Physics teacher, and now curriculum director. Also includes loads of current biology resources!

Ramblings, musings, rants, and mumblings of a crazy science teacher.

It is always good to see that other teachers out there are a little crazy (and obsessed with ensuring students are learning to their potential). Have a read and see what you think.

I know it's not a blog but I have found many great resources on this site under the free registration section. Everything from kindy, prep to upper school. It certainly is worth checking out.

Free teaching Resources for teaching all learning areas of the Australian Curriculum

A description of the 1st one-to-one laptop program in the world (at a Melbourne-based private school). The important aspect of this is the purpose behind this program and how that differs from what has happened since. Arguably, how computers and computing devices are being used in schools has radically decreased even though the capability of the technology has radically increased.

I found this article really interesting after an experience in two year seven classes a few weeks ago. I was asked to help two grade 7 classes for the first 2 periods for three weeks. In that time, I wandered around quietly paying particular attention to what the students were actually doing on their laptops. I noticed on many occasions, several of the children were actually entertaining themselves by just "pottering" around on their laptop, even while the teacher was explicitly teaching. I was really curious to know how much the majority of students were actually learning. The class environment was relatively quiet compared to schooling in my day (in the '70's and '80's) but I had the thought, if laptop programs are NOT successful, we have a big problem that may not be confirmed for a decade or so. The other thing I found interesting is that the majority of the year 7's had done extremely poorly on their ICT exams.... interesting...

Great resource from Scootle, comparing the similarities and differences of objects "toys".

Creating Interactive Timelines

Great teacher blog that discusses using misconceptions to build lessons. Also a great example of teacher growing pck from student knowledge.