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This is a great blog from a prep classroom that shows how play-based pedagogy can work with the Australian Curriculum. Also some example of using ICT in the play-based ECE context.

Introduces the idea of conceptual change in the context of science. During week 1 of EDC3100 we will be looking at conceptual change as it applies to learning how to use an ICT.

For those who are specialising in Special Education or will be general classroom teachers who may have students in their class with reading and writing difficulties. Spectronics have a blog which I have just begun following.

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

This American teacher's blog is a mix between awesome free downloads, behaviour management tips and teacher humour. She also has a Facebook page called Mrs. Russell's Room.

This is very interesting

Kathy Cassidy writes and shares a video about what risks are acceptable to take when teaching children new tasks such as reading and writing. The idea that risk taking is apart of teaching is hard not to agree with. All students are individual and have a different way of learning, so approaching activities with different mindsets can be quite daunting. As teachers, she writes that we need to grasp the idea of the work risk-taking.

Erin Klein's blog post '3 Reasons to Use Bing in the Classroom' raises many issues of child safety on the Internet. One of her fears are what students will come across while independently researching Bing. She stresses that teachers not only need to teach students how to use ICT's but how to be 'digitally responsible'.

This blog provides a value based approach to education and may be useful

Mondays are hard for (almost) everyone. What if we started the week with reminding students how much they and their work matters? Let's challenge every teacher we know to begin celebrating Mattering Mondays. We know that we need students to be more engaged. We also know that when students feel like they matter and they [...]

An Australian secondary science teacher who shares lots of interesting science links and has been blogging for quite a few years.

March 4, 2016 Another great Joy of Tech comic .... February 28, 2016 Check out yet another great talk by Al Gore. There is hope on climate change ... February 27, 2016 The process takes merely tenths of a second. But within that tiny amount of time, there's a lot going on.

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.

Life inside the primary classroom

Collection of different tools that can be used to add notes/questions to YouTube and other videos